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1. Arithmetica
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- 11th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 984
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a fragment of De Arithmetica by Boethius
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina. The glosses in a different, small handwriting. Headings in Capitalis. The words following an initial in a mixture of Capitalis and Uncialis. Headings and plain initials (in Capitalis) in red. The table on f. 2v is traced in double red ink lines, the space between the double lines coloured yellow., Boethius, De arithmetica, 1.10.87-1.11.52, with interlinear glosses. One bifolio, the two leaves not in succession. Loss of text caused by holes and the rubbing on ff. 1r and 2v., and Binding: the bifolium was used for the binding of a book, ff. 1r and 2v being the outer side of the covers; because of the wide inner margins, relatively little text was lost in the process.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica
2. Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 870
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (badly damaged by moist; repaired using brownish paper) of 1) Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Commentaria in Ciceronis Topica. 2-3) Chalcidius (400-410), Commentum in Platonis Timaeum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands in Praegothica: A copied art. 1, B copied artt. 2-3., A 5-line plain Romanesque initial in green at the beginning of art. 1 and a 2-line plain initial in blue on f. 1rb, both with a guide-letter in the margin. Space reserved for a 3- or 4-line initial on f. 3vb at the opening of chapter 49 (see art. 2). Two musical diagrams in pen and ink (see art. 2)., Ff. 2r-3v: due to the severe damage to the inner lower part of the leaves, four large sections of text are missing, including part of the triangular diagram of musical proportions on f. 2v. On f. 4, losses of text due to the defective state of the inner margin and several holes in the parchment., and With the fragments are kept the modern paper flyleaves, one cardboard board and some minor fragments of a binding of considerable dimensions (flyleaves 340 x 215 mm.). On one of the flyleaves the following pencil notes: "Fragment Boetius de musica"; "Phillipps sale May 1913" and "Ms. Ph(illipps) 20690".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524., Calcidius., Cicero, Marcus Tullius., and Plato.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus
3. De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.87
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
- Description:
- In Latin., Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci.", Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).
4. De syllogismo categorico, De differentiis topicis (fragment).
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1199].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.5
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Boethius' De syllogismo categorico and De differentiis topicis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a highly abbreviated, late Caroline script., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each section are red; 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; the explicit is written in brown rustic capitals with some use of uncial and minuscule forms; there are nine diagrams, one outlined in red; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De syllogismo categorico, De differentiis topicis (fragment).
