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1. De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- 1430.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 61
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe., Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout., and Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
2. De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1101
- Image Count:
- 129
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on goatskin parchment of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae; with dictionary of philosophical terms, a text on Venice, and a moral-allegorical text
- Description:
- Script: Art. 6 a single hand writing largely in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda); art. 5 is probably by the main scribe, using a smaller Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; and the other texts are additional: art. 1 in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; artt. 2 and 3 in Italian Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); art. 4 in Gothica Cursiva., Decoration: Art. 6 has red headings and red diagonal stroking of majuscules; alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials; litterae duplices, half inserted. Artt. 1 and 4 have red stroking of the majuscules and a red flourished initial with red penwork. The other texts have no decoration., Binding: 18th-19th century plain parchment over cardboard; and spine has a gold-tooled title label with inscription., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
3. De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 2
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
- Description:
- In Latin., Probably copied in Tuscany., Signed, after the explicit: "Ego iulianus francisci de leuanto notarius scripsi.", Layout: single columns of 30 lines., Script: rounded gothic bookhand., Decoration: 5 illuminated initials on gold grounds; many smaller initials in red or blue penwork., and Binding: contemporary (?) beech boards with brown goatskin spine decorated with blind ropework; metal clasp and latch.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Consolation, and Dialogues, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
