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De consolatione philosophiae
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Title
De consolatione philosophiae.
Created
France, [between 1400 and 1450]
Physical Description
ff. i + 210 + i : parchment ; 153 x 110 (75 x 48) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written by two scribes in an ornate and elegant gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1v-154v; 2) ff. 155r-210v. The marginal commentary is in a neat informal batarde (ink paler than that used for text).
Plain initial, 3-line, in blue at beginning of text; other initials, 2-line, in red throughout text to mark the beginning of poetry and prose sections. Title page (f. 1v): alternating lines of blue and gold.
Grease stain in margins at end of codex; bottom of f. 81 trimmed.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled. Repaired.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Acquired from Goldschmidt's in 1943.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. With Excerpts from the commentary of Nicolas Trevet (in margins) on Boethius, Book I.1.1 - II.5.34.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 27, no. 85. E.T. Silk, "A New Manuscript of Boethius' Consolatio," Gazette 18 (1944) pp. 46-47.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 85.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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