De consolatione philosophiae

Description

Title: De consolatione philosophiae
Creator: Boethius, -524
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: 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.
Description: In Latin.
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.
Provenance: Acquired from Goldschmidt's in 1943.
Extent: ff. i + 210 + i : 153 x 110 (75 x 48) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
Subject (Topic): Consolation
Dialogues, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328
Consolation > Early works to 1800
Dialogues, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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