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Author:
Boethius -524  Search this
Donor:
Dibner, Bern DSI  Search this
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Author:
Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (45 leaves) : vellum ; 29 cm in portfolio 31 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Specimens
Early works
Manuscripts (documents).)
Sources
Date:
14uu
Notes:
Leaves have (chiefly) 31-32 lines of text in a single column on each side
Multi-color illuminated initials; rubrication in red, blue, and yellow
Some of the leaves appear to be palimpsests with faint traces of earlier writing that was intentionally removed
Title from colophon, leaf 45v, which reads: Explicit liber Boetij. Deo gra[tia]s ammen. A. S. C
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Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI
SCDIRB copy 39088009752148 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. (Bern Dibner's name is on a small paper label pasted onto the bookplate, possibly covering a different name)
SCDIRB copy has later (19th cent.?) gilt-tooled red morocco leather binding with raised bands; marbled endpapers; in later red buckram portfolio
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Summary:
Handwritten manuscript on vellum of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, probably dating from the 15th century, possibly from Florence, Italy
Topic:
Happiness  Search this
Palimpsests  Search this
Philosophy and religion  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
MSS 001751 B
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_686031