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Early Printed Editions of Cassiodorus De Anima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

James W. Halporn*
Affiliation:
Indiana University/Harvard University

Extract

In the 1973 edition of Cassiodorus De anima, two sixteenth-century books containing this work were mentioned at second hand. Thanks to the collection of early printed editions at the Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel (ÖB), I can supply direct information on these books.

Type
Miscellany
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by Fordham University 

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References

1 Magni Aurelii Cassiodori De anima, cura et studio Halporn, J.W., CCSL 96 (Turnhout, 1973), 501–75. An earlier version of this text and introduction appeared in Traditio 16 (1960): 39–109.Google Scholar

2 Franz, A., M. Aurelius Cassiodorius Senator: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der theologischen Literatur (Breslau, 1872), 136 (microfilm at the Widener Library, Cambridge, Mass.).Google Scholar

3 See Panzer, G. W. F., Annales typographici, 8 (Nurnberg, 1800), 229, no. 17.Google Scholar

4 For the sake of completeness, the following can be added to the description of the edition of 1500, listed on p. 519 of the 1973 CCSL edition: Basel ÖB F.J.VII.11. (Gothic letter) Illustrium (the reading in the 1973 edition is incorrect) uirorum opuscula … [Printer's device with the legend, IEHAN PETIT] Venundantur a Johanne paruo (Jean Petit) parrhisiis in | regione diui Jacobi in leone argento. Colophon: “Habes lector … Aurelii Cassiodori subtillisimum de anima rationali compendium….” Simon Radin, publisher; Cyprianus Beneti, editor; Jean Petit, bookseller; Andreas Bocard, printer. 1500.Google Scholar

c1: Aurelii cassiodori magni senatoris dño donante cõuersi liber de I anima et qualitatibus eiusdem per modum dyalogi contextus felicilter incipit et primo tabula contentorum in eo. I Quid amici requirunt. Capitulum primum | … f3v: (colophon) Aurelii cassiodori magni senatoris dño donante conuersi liber de | anima explicitus clauditur.Google Scholar