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De consolatione philosophiae

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34p9j
Title: De consolatione philosophiae
Name: Boethius, -524
Date: 1300
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Annotations, Dialogues, Poems, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: 14th-century English copy of Boethius' philosophical dialogue in five books between a narrator and Lady Philosophy which deals with ideas of fate, fortune, and the relationship between free will and divine omniscience, and which was one of the most important philosophical texts of the medieval period. The text alternates between Metrum (verse) and Prosa (prose), and this copy of the text begins with the fifth metrum of Book 2. The text of Books 2 and 3 is fairly heavily marked with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal notes and manicules, and has simple ornamental initials and rubrication; the remainder of the manuscript has only occasional interlinear glosses and spaces with guide letters for initials.
Extent: 43 leaves : parchment ; 202 x 137 (135 x 92) mm bound to 208 x 146 mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title from closing rubric (f. 43v)., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-4v: [Book 2, Metrum 5 to end], Table of contents: 2. f.4v-20v: [Book 3], Table of contents: 3. f.20v-33v: [Book 4], Table of contents: 4. f.34r-43v: [Book 5], Collation: Parchment, iv (19th-century paper, uncut) + 43 + iv (19th-century paper, uncut); 1-2⁶ 3-5⁸ 6⁸(-1). Link to collation model at end of record., Layout: Prose sections written in 24 long lines, verse sections written in 2 columns, using the same horizontals; frame-ruled in faint ink., Script: Written in English cursive script., Decoration: 12 2-line painted initials (plus a single 1-line initial) and recurring rubrics Prosa and Metrum in blue in the early leaves of the manuscript (f. 1r-13v); occasional varying manicules (f. 2r with blue added, 4r, 10r, 19r)., Binding: 19th-century English half morocco, marbled boards and endleaves., Origin: Written in England in the first half of the 14th century., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Latin.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34p9j, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs347.html, Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000261, Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/72
Subject: Consolation -- Early works to 1800, Consolation, Happiness -- Early works to 1800, Happiness, Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Ancient, Philosophy and religion -- Early works to 1800, Philosophy and religion
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 347
Provenance: Formerly owned by Lord Henry Maxwell Farnham (County Cavan, Ireland; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover)., Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 1999, lot 33, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021., Farnham, Henry Maxwell, Baron, 1799-1868, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9959428163503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34p9j/manifest

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