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MS. Rawl. G. 41

Summary Catalogue no.: 14772

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae

Rubric: Incipit liber primus [&c.] De consolatione philosophie Anicii Manlii Severini viri clarissimi Boetii...

With extracts from the French version of Jean de Meun added in the 15th century

With many notes and glosses of various dates, partly in French

Language(s): Latin and Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: v + 109 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 9.125 × 6 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 123, Pl. XII

One fine initial

Good initials

Binding

Blue leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts

History

Origin: 12th century, first half ; England (?); additions, 15th century ; France (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

No. 71 in a monastic library in the 14th century, about which there are two erased inscriptions: 'Liber monasterii... Sancti Martini in Louania' and Est liber hic Sancti Martini Louaniensis', Also, 'Precium huius libri. ij equites'. See MS. Rawl. G. 52 and MS. Rawl. G. 54

No. 456 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (June 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 349