University of Pennsylvania, LJS 347

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS624

Shelfmark:

LJS 347

Title:

De consolatione philosophiae.

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[between 1300 and 1350?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 43 leaves : parchment ; 202 x 137 (135 x 92) mm bound to 208 x 146 mm

Former Owner(s):

Farnham, Henry Maxwell, Baron, 1799-1868

Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Binding: 19th-century English half morocco, marbled boards and endleaves.
Title from closing rubric (f. 43v).
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).
Script: Written in English cursive script.
Layout: Prose sections written in 24 long lines, verse sections written in 2 columns, using the same horizontals; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Collation: Parchment, iv (19th-century paper, uncut) + 43 + iv (19th-century paper, uncut); 1-2⁶ 3-5⁸ 6⁸(-1).
Origin: Written in England in the first half of the 14th century.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 1999, lot 33, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Lord Henry Maxwell Farnham (County Cavan, Ireland; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.

Keyword:

annotations

Manuscripts, Latin

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

dialogues

Philosophy, Ancient

Consolation

Philosophy and religion

Happiness

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959428163503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34p9j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania