Harvard University, MS Lat 178

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DS ID:

DS11007

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 178

Title:

Anicii Severini Boecii, viri consolatorii de philosophica (sic) consolatione

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 49 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bohn, Henry G. 1796-1884

Henry George Bohn WIKIDATA

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Medlicott, William Gibbons, 1816-1883

William Gibbons Medlicott WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from explicit.
Written in northern Italy in a rounded gothic bookhand by two scribes.
With one historiated initial of Boethius and Philosophy conversing in jail, andh an acanthus border (f. 1r).
In an 18th-cent. French or Dutch mottled brown calf binding.
In a tray case, 28 cm.
Ex-libris of the Rev. Henry Drury; his sale, Evans, London, 19 Feb. and 11 following days, and 12 Mar. and 10 following days, 1827, probably no. 803, sold to Henry G. Bohn (inscribed), possibly through Thorpe. Belonged to William G. Medlicott; sold in 1878 to Charles Eliot Norton (inscribed).
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Philosophy and religion

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093485820203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:21943387

Holding Institution:

Harvard University