Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0300039433 ISBN 13: 9780300039436
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Scarce translation of Boethius's influential examination of the mathematics of harmony and music, based on his education in traditional Greek ideas, which he first expressed in Latin in the early sixth century. Hardcover, as pictured; the second printing. One of Yale's Music Theory Translation Series, edited by Claude V. Palisca. Scholar David Crook's copy, with his name & academic address mostly erased from front endsheet, some neat pencil notes (in three colors, but all erasable) & figures remain in the book. Book shows light wear, corners bumped & frayed, minor crease to spine, pen mark on front cover, page xix/xx with minor stain & light cockling; no jacket; xliv, blank, 205 pages; figures, appendixes, index. Size: Octavo.