Part 1: ff. 1r-54v

Description: - Parchment - 229 x 159 mm - 24 long lines for prose; usually 2 columns for verse; ruled.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials in red; 1-line initials within text slashed with red and washed with yellow.




Text 1: ff. 1r-54v

Author: Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)

Title: De consolatione philosophae

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Copious annotation; ownership notes, f. 49r and 54v in Italian. 

Image 1: f. 1r Opening initial, marginal and interlinear gloss.

Image 2: f. 6r Pointing fingers.

Image 3: ff. 8v-9r Catchword enclosed in frame.

Image 4: f. 15v Change in layout for verse.

Image 5: ff. 27v-28r Hair follicles.

Image 6: f. 34r Glossing in several different hands, heading for new book in red.

Image 7: ff. 40v-41r Gloss in 3 different hands, catchword.

Image 8: f. 49r Ownership note, upper margin.

Image 9: f. 54v Ownership note.


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Part 2: Second and penultimate flyleaves

Description: - Parchment - 229 x 159 mm - 20-21 long lines ruled in hard point.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: 1- line initials in red and blue; initials within text slashed with red.

Notes: Original binding.




Text 1: Second and penultimate flyleaves, r-v.

Title: Grammatical work

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Several names written in margins and between lines. 

Status of text: Ink on verso of second flyleaf very worn; notes written over original text.

Image 10: Second flyleaf, r. Ownership notes, stamp.

Image 11: Penultimate flyleaf, v. Ownership notes, doodles.