(Q12978)
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De consolatione philosophiae
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae--Liber 3
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--New Jersey--Princeton
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between 1100 and 1200
12. century
1100Gregorian
1200Gregorian
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Extent: 48 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 165-185 x 110 (140-145 x 75-95) mm bound to 190 x 120 mm.
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Incipit: “Anicii Manlii Severini Ordinarii Boethii Exconsularis Patricii Phylosophice Consolationis Liber I Incipit. Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi | Flebilis heu mestos cogor inire modos…”
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Explicit: “Magna uobis est si dissimulare non uultis necessitas indicta probitatis, cum ante oculos agitis iudicis cuncta cernentis. Amen. Anicii Manlii Severini Boecii Exconsulibus Ordinarii Patricii De Consolatione Philosophie Liber V. Explicit”
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Ms. composite codex.
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Title from explicit (fol. 37v).
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Collation: Parchment ; fol. 48 + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
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Layout: 38-45 lines per page ; verse in two columns.
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Description: Two booklets brought together (fol. 1-40; 41-48) ; first section written in late Carolingian miniscule ; second section written in late Protogothic.
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Decoration: Two decorated brown Romanesque pen-drawn initials and several plain Romanesque initials. Each of the five books opens with a multi-line initial; book 1 opens with the most elaborate (10-line initial C with two beasts entwined eating foliage).
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Origin: Booklet I was produced in France in a Cistercian house in the second half of the 12th century.
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Both booklets belonged to a Cistercian house, as evidenced by an ex libris dating to the turn of the 13th century on fol. 40v ("Liber sancte marie cystercii"). Intermediate provenance unknown. Was sold with the library of Joseph-Jean-Pascal Gay in 1833. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript on 26 March 1925 from the New York bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). His gift to the...
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8 November 2023
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8 November 2023
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