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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.
Support: parchment; 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).
Prose sections written in 24 long lines, verse sections written in 2 columns, using the same horizontals; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Written in English cursive script.
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).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from closing rubric (f. 43v).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
Written in England in the first half of the 14th century.
19th-century English half morocco, marbled boards and endleaves.
Latin
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.
England
Written in England in the first half of the 14th century.
Latin
Formerly owned by Lord Henry Maxwell Farnham
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 1999, lot 33, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title from closing rubric (f. 43v).
Written in English cursive script.
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).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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