De topicis differentiis

Description

Title: De topicis differentiis
Creator: Boethius, d. 524
Published / Created: [between 1250 and 1275]
Publication Place: England,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De topicis differentiis.
Description: Binding: Date? Limp vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Topica boetij".
One historiated initial, f. 1v, blue with white filigree and highlights against a square reddish brown ground with white filigree, showing Boethius as a monk in a blue robe seated on a chair and holding a scroll inscribed with his name, and a disciple, dressed in a red robe and holding a book inscribed with the opening words of the text proper, both figures against a grey ground with white filigree. Three illuminated initials, ff. 7v, 16v, 23r, 6- to 4-line (without ascenders or descenders), blue with white filigree against reddish brown ground with white filigree or reddish brown against blue ground with white filigree. The initials are filled with scrolling vines blue or reddish brown with white highlights, with stylized leaves, ending in dragons' heads against reddish brown or blue grounds. Descender, f. 16v, in form of a dragon, reddish brown against blue ground. Flourished initials, 2-line, and paragraph marks alternate red and blue.
Script: Written in compact gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Extent: ff. 30 : parchment ; 132 x 100 (115 x 78) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Decorated initials
Hand coloring
Historiated initials
Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 117.

Orbis Record: 9809507
Object ID (OID): 11403203
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars117.htm