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    • Author/Creator:Boethius, -524.
    • Title:De consolatione philosophiae.
    • Published/Created:Italy, [between 1300 and 1400]
    • Physical Description:ff. ii (paper) + 58 + ii (paper) : parchment ; 230 x 155 mm.
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    • Notes: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.
      In Latin.
      Ex libris Paul Vertongen, M.D. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on goatskin parchment of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae; with dictionary of philosophical terms, a text on Venice, and a moral-allegorical text.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Boethius, -524.
      Consolation--Early works to 1800.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
      Vertongen, Paul, Doctor,--Bookplate.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--14th century.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9895781