De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).

Description

Title: De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).
Creator: Boethius, -524
Published / Created: approximately 1350.
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
Description: In Latin.
Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci."
Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand.
Script: gothica textualis.
Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Bernard M. Rosenthal (BMR Misc. 32). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Lrd. on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 2007.
Extent: 3 leaves (1 biofolium and 1 fragment) : 283 mm x 427 mm and smaller.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.