Cornell University, Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 13

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12107

Shelfmark:

Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 13

Title:

De consolatione philosophiae] / Boetius

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

France, probably between 1425 and 1450

France TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 132 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 214 x 151 (132 x 70) mm. bound to 222 x 163 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Text beings imperfectly in Book I, prosa 1: "[ple]na foret, ut nullo...."
Layout: Written in 16 long lines, above top line; frame-ruled in ink. Ample space left between the lines and in the margins for glosses.
Script: Bâtard.
Decoration: Diagram of the winds (f. 26r), large burnished and illuminated foliate initials throughout, small red or blue flourished initials in the first quire (ff. 1-16), and elaborate ivy borders (ff. 26v and 97v).
Binding: French 17th-cent. brown calf with gilt tooling on spine.
Origin: Written in France in the fifteenth century.
Provenance: Claude Le Jay. D.C. Bret (?). A.D. White (bookplate). Bought in 1885 by George Lincoln Burr from Maisonneuve & Co., Paris for A.D. White.
Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX B67
Related shelfmark: MS B.7 (De Ricci)

Keyword:

vellum (parchment)

scientific illustrations (images)

illuminations (paintings)

Poetry

Early works

Gothic scripts

Philosophy, Medieval

Happiness

Philosophy

Latin poetry

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/3816610

Holding Institution:

Cornell University