Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe., 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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Boethius' De syllogismo categorico and De differentiis topicis
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a highly abbreviated, late Caroline script., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each section are red; 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; the explicit is written in brown rustic capitals with some use of uncial and minuscule forms; there are nine diagrams, one outlined in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De topicis differentiis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One historiated initial, f. 1v, blue with white filigree and highlights against a square reddish brown ground with white filigree, showing Boethius as a monk in a blue robe seated on a chair and holding a scroll inscribed with his name, and a disciple, dressed in a red robe and holding a book inscribed with the opening words of the text proper, both figures against a grey ground with white filigree. Three illuminated initials, ff. 7v, 16v, 23r, 6- to 4-line (without ascenders or descenders), blue with white filigree against reddish brown ground with white filigree or reddish brown against blue ground with white filigree. The initials are filled with scrolling vines blue or reddish brown with white highlights, with stylized leaves, ending in dragons' heads against reddish brown or blue grounds. Descender, f. 16v, in form of a dragon, reddish brown against blue ground. Flourished initials, 2-line, and paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Date? Limp vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Topica boetij".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
