Harvard University, MS Lat 179

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DS ID:

DS11006

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 179

Title:

Boetii de consolatione

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1350 and 1400

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 70 leaves, bound : vellum ; 30 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846

Luigi Celotti WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Collegium Agennensis societatis Jesu (Agen, France)

Note:

Title from explicit.
Written in southern France or Spain in a round southern gothic bookhand, with red and blue initials with pen flourishes.
In an early 19th-cent. French mottled calf binding.
In a tray case, 32 cm.
Belonged to the Jesuit college at Agen, France (inscribed); Abbé Luigi Celotti; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 Mar. 1825, no. 405, to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (stamped crest, MS 24305); his sale, London, 1896, no. 130, to Webster, and 1899, no. 223, to Quaritch. Sold by Sotheby's, London, 17 Dec. 1900, no. 164, to Ridler; belonged to Charles Eliot Norton.
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Philosophy and religion

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093486310203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:21337605

Holding Institution:

Harvard University