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Title

De consolatione philosophiae

Authors

• Boethius, -524

Other related names

• Farnham, Henry Maxwell, Baron, 1799-1868, former owner

Call number

LJS 347
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959428163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840699700
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5942816

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1300 and 1350?

Place

England

Summary

14th-century English copy of Boethius' 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. The text alternates between Metrum (verse) and Prosa (prose), and this copy of the text begins with the fifth metrum of Book 2. The text of Books 2 and 3 is fairly heavily marked with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal notes and manicules, and has simple ornamental initials and rubrication; the remainder of the manuscript has only occasional interlinear glosses and spaces with guide letters for initials.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from closing rubric (f. 43v).
   

Extent

43 leaves : 202 x 137 (135 x 92) mm. bound to 208 x 146 mm

Collation

Parchment, iv (19th-century paper, uncut) + 43 + iv (19th-century paper, uncut); 1-2⁶ 3-5⁸ 6⁸(-1).

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century English half morocco, marbled boards and endleaves.

Layout

Prose sections written in 24 long lines, verse sections written in 2 columns, using the same horizontals; frame-ruled in faint ink.

Decoration

12 2-line painted initials (plus a single 1-line initial) and recurring rubrics Prosa and Metrum in blue in the early leaves of the manuscript (f. 1r-13v); occasional varying manicules (f. 2r with blue added, 4r, 10r, 19r).

Script

Written in English cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Lord Henry Maxwell Farnham (County Cavan, Ireland; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 1999, lot 33, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Dialogues
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• England
• English
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Book 2, Metrum 5 to end, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Book 3, f. 4v
• fol. 20v — Book 4, f. 20v
• fol. 34r — Book 5, f. 34r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Manicule, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 4r
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 8v
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 13v
• fol. 19r — Manicule, f. 19r