Headnote: Boethius et al.
Size: 280x229 mm
Type: Philosophy
Date: xii
Folia: 57
Do pre-war images survive?: no
Illuminated?: yes
Type of illustrations: "initiales coloriées" (Wilbaux)
Catalogue description: Anitii Manlii Severini Boetii, viri consularis et illustris ex consulis ordinarii patricii liber de consolatione philosophiae. Petit in-folio, vélin; 58 feuillets; initiales coloriées; xii au xiii e siècle; reliure en bois.
Notes: Each section starts with an illuminated initial. Whole MS in one hand. Ex libris (14th c) from St Martin, Tournai on f. 56v but may not have been copied there. A 13th c pen trial on f. 57v seems to suggest that the MS was there in the thirteenth century. Table of contents on 57v from the thirteenth c. 15th c inscription with the name of Jaquet Louchier. Thirteenth century binding, with pastedowns from a philosophical text of the 11th or 12th c. [now 74bis and 74ter]; 74 bis frag. a beg. "..uberruma et facilitate"; fragment b beg. "..haec scientia rationum vel ad inuenienda"; 74ter (12th c) is Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy book 5, chp. vi 62-179; similar to the text in the edition by R. Peiper, Аnicii Мanlii Severini Boetii Philosophiae Consolationis (Leipzg: Teubner, 1871), pp. 141-145. This fragment also contains notes on the muses etc. See Faider for more information (pp. 69-70).
Source: Amable Wilbaux, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de la ville de Tournai, vol. 1 (Tournai: Typ. de H. Casterman, 1869).
Source 2: Faider, Paul and Pierre Van Sint-Jan. Catalogue des manuscrits conservés à Tournai: Bibliothèques de la ville et du séminaire. Vol. 6. (Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1950).