University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1081

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DS ID:

DS898

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1081

Title:

De consolatione philosophiae

Consolation of Philosophy

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

1466.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin with Spanish notes at the end

Latin WIKIDATA

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 87 leaves : paper; 290 x 215 (201 x 123) mm bound to 294 x 226 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f.1r).
Collation: Paper, 87; 114 212 312(-2) 4-512 614 714(-2, -13); [1-87]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; quires signed a-g in modern pencil; catchword on last page of each quire, lower right verso. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 17 long lines or 17 lines of single or double column poetry, frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book hand, with marginal and interlinear annotations in late Gothic cursive, and several italic hands.
Decoration: Elaborate manicules in red and brown ink (f. 16r, 17r-v, 18v, 23v, 25r, 26r), decorated initials (f. 20v, 30r) with guide letters for missing initials elsewhere, catchwords encircled by sketch of a fish (f. 37v), elaborate pen flourishes on tall letters (f. 82r-85v).
Binding: Contemporary red vellum reinforced with scrap paper and parchment.
Origin: Written in Spain, possibly Aragon (Dean and Armistead), in 1466.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.

Keyword:

reading lists

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

dialogues

annotations

Philosophy and religion

Philosophy, Ancient

Consolation

Happiness

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9942310653503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3x05xd2s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania