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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2221

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 116

Title:

De Consolatione Philosophie /

Consolation of Philosophy

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

Aquitaine?, France

Aquitaine TGN

France TGN

Date:

between 1100 and 1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 165-185 x 110 (140-145 x 75-95) mm bound to 190 x 120 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Gay, Joseph-Jean-Pascal, 1775-1832

Pascal Gay WIKIDATA

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: “Anicii Manlii Severini Ordinarii Boethii Exconsularis Patr[i]cii Phylosophice Consolationis Liber I Incipit. Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi | Flebilis heu mestos cogor inire modos...”
Explicit: “Magna uobis est si dissimulare non uultis necessitas indicta probitatis, cum ante oculos agitis iudicis cuncta cernentis. Amen. Anicii Manlii Severini Boecii Exconsulibus Ordinarii Patricii De Consolatione Philosophie Liber V. Explicit”
Ms. composite codex.
Title from explicit (fol. 37v).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 48 + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 38-45 lines per page ; verse in two columns.
Description: Two booklets brought together (fol. 1-40; 41-48) ; first section written in late Carolingian miniscule ; second section written in late Protogothic.
Decoration: Two decorated brown Romanesque pen-drawn initials and several plain Romanesque initials. Each of the five books opens with a multi-line initial; book 1 opens with the most elaborate (10-line initial C with two beasts entwined eating foliage).
Origin: Booklet I was produced in France in a Cistercian house in the second half of the 12th century.
Both booklets belonged to a Cistercian house, as evidenced by an ex libris dating to the turn of the 13th century on fol. 40v ("Liber sancte marie cystercii"). Intermediate provenance unknown. Was sold with the library of Joseph-Jean-Pascal Gay in 1833. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript on 26 March 1925 from the New York bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). His gift to the...

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

Parchment (Paper)

figure initials

diagrams

decorated initials

Philosophy

Early works

France

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius)

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113357193506421

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Holding Institution:

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