Boethius — c. 1400; French
MS. Douce 298
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Boethius — c. 1400; French
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 298
Date
c. 1400
Language
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii + 88leaves, in double columns
Decoration
Good grisaille miniatures.
Borders.
Initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 633, pl. XLIX)
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
Boethius's treatise de Consolatione Philosophiae, in French verse
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 298
Summary
Beg. 'Cellui qui bien bat les buissons.'.
Date
written in about A.D. 1400
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, with five miniatures, and borders
Physical extent
88 leaves, in double columns
Custodial history
'Huius volumin[ils verus est possessor Johannes Morellius', 'Moreau' (early 17th cent.): there is also the anonymous armorial bookplate of Jean Joseph Languet de Gergy (d. 1753) as archbishop.
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Collection contents
Boethius's treatise de Consolatione Philosophiae, in French verse
