MS. e Mus. 53
Summary Catalogue no.: 3588
Contents
, De consolatione philosophiae
Middle English verse translation by John Walton
Incipit: (prol.) If sufficiens of konnynge and of witte
Incipit: (prol.) The while that Rome was regned in his flours
Incipit: (text) Allas .I. wrecche that whilom was in welth
Explicit: but alle thise passeth yit intelligence | as be a sight of theire excellence||
Ends imperfectly in the 'Conclusio per exemplum' (5th bk., 4th prose) with a few leaves being lost. With both prologues. The translator's name does not occur in the MS.
Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 114 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12.125 × 8.25 in.
Binding
Red leather on chamfered boards, clasps lost, worn, English work of the 15th cent.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Given in 1655 by Henry Foulis (d. 1669), on whom see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: ‘Lib. Bibl. Bodl. ex dono Domini Hen. Foulis generosi in agro Eboracensi oriundi, et Coll. Reginæ: Commensalis Ann. Dom. M.DC.LV. Oct. XVIII.’
Record Sources
Description adapted (August 2022) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 1021
Summary Catalogue (1937)
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.