De consolatione philosophiae

Description

Title: De consolatione philosophiae
Creator: Boethius, -524
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on goatskin parchment of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae; with dictionary of philosophical terms, a text on Venice, and a moral-allegorical text
Description: Script: Art. 6 a single hand writing largely in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda); art. 5 is probably by the main scribe, using a smaller Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; and the other texts are additional: art. 1 in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; artt. 2 and 3 in Italian Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); art. 4 in Gothica Cursiva.
Decoration: Art. 6 has red headings and red diagonal stroking of majuscules; alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials; litterae duplices, half inserted. Artt. 1 and 4 have red stroking of the majuscules and a red flourished initial with red penwork. The other texts have no decoration.
Binding: 18th-19th century plain parchment over cardboard; and spine has a gold-tooled title label with inscription.
In Latin.
Provenance: Ex libris Paul Vertongen, M.D. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii (paper) + 58 + ii (paper) : 230 x 155 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic): Consolation
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Consolation > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Vertongen, Paul, Doctor > Bookplate

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Citation: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.