De consolatione philosophiae

Description

Title: De consolatione philosophiae
Creator: Boethius
Published / Created: 1430
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
Description: Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text.
Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout.
Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe.
Extent: 1 vol.
26 cm.
color illustration
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Hand coloring
Historiated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Consolation--Early works to 1800
Dialogues, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 61.

Orbis Record: 9800851
Object ID (OID): 2052977
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms061.htm