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Turnhout: Brepols. Good with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 2503045820 . Cxlv, 384 pp. 7 color plates. Large octavo. Cream card covers have some normal shelf wear, bit of edge curl. Interior has owner name markered out, text has marginalia throughout, some yellow highlighter, all done quite neatly. Still usable and respectable but priced low to reflect condition. Preliminaries in English, text in Latin. This is Vol. II of the Brepols Opera Omnia of William of Conches. "William of Conches is one of the most important and innovative thinkers of the first half of the twelfth century. This second volume in the projected series of editions of his works contains his widely influential commentary on Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae (dated to about 1120). In this continuous, lemmatic commentary William gives a systematic and comprehensive interpretation of Boethius' masterpiece. He far surpassed previous commentators in depth, originality and comprehensiveness,… Read More