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Title

De consolatione philosophiae.

Authors

• Boethius, -524

Other related names

• Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328, commentator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85238888)

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1081
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942310653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182540522
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x05xd2s http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/18

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin with Spanish notes at the end

Origin

Date

1466

Place

Spain

Summary

Philosophical dialogue in five books between a narrator and Lady Philosophy which deals with ideas of fate, fortune, and the relationship between free will and divine omniscience, and which was one of the most important philosophical texts of the medieval period, includes marginal notations drawn from Nicholas Trivet; and a list of books in a personal library being taken to Salamanca (f.86v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f.1r).
   
• 1. f.2r-85v: De consolatione philosophiae / Boethius.
   
• 2. f.86v: [Book list].
   
• 3. f.87r-87v: Notes in Spanish and Latin.
   

Extent

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

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary red vellum reinforced with scrap paper and parchment.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines or 17 lines of single or double column poetry, frame-ruled in lead.

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).

Script

Written in a Gothic book hand, with marginal and interlinear annotations in late Gothic cursive, and several italic hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Philosophy, Ancient--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Philosophy and religion--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy and religion
• Consolation--Early works to 1800
• Consolation
• Happiness--Early works to 1800
• Happiness

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• dialogues
• poems
• annotations
• reading lists
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — De consolatione philosophiae, f. 2r
• fol. 86v — Book list, f. 86v
• fol. 87r — Notes in Spanish and Latin, f. 87r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 16r — Manicule, f. 16r
• fol. 17r — Manicule, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Manicule, f. 17v
• fol. 18v — Manicule, f. 18v
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Manicule, f. 26r
• fol. 37v — Decorated catchword, f. 37v