De consolatione philosophiae

Description

Title: De consolatione philosophiae
Creator: Boethius, -524
Published / Created: [ca. 1425]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Description: In Latin.
Probably copied in Tuscany.
Signed, after the explicit: "Ego iulianus francisci de leuanto notarius scripsi."
Layout: single columns of 30 lines.
Script: rounded gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 5 illuminated initials on gold grounds; many smaller initials in red or blue penwork.
Binding: contemporary (?) beech boards with brown goatskin spine decorated with blind ropework; metal clasp and latch.
Provenance: Ex libris John T. Jeffcock. Ex libris Edward Francis Howard Paget. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 51 leaves : 254 mm x 180 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Consolation
Dialogues, Latin
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Consolation > Early works to 1800
Dialogues, Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Jeffcock, John > Bookplate
Paget, Edward Francis Howard > Bookplate
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (Takamiya MS 2). General Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.