Anicii Manlii Boetii de consolatione philosophiae libri quinque (BNF Latin 6401)

People outside a building, f. 5v.

Colloquial name(s): Anicii Manlii Boetii de consolatione philosophiae libri quinque

Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 6401

Date: 1001-1200 (source)

Origin: England or Fleury(?) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica digital library

This manuscript contains a few illustrations, as well as several mathematical diagrams.

List of illustrations:

5v	Half-page pen-and-ink drawing of a woman and a reclining man outside a building which three women stand beside.
13v	Full-page colour illustration of a person seated inside a rhombus around which are arranged birds and armoured men with spears and shields.
15r	Large capital decorated with strapwork.
158v	Full-page colour-and-gold illustration of a halo'd saint seated within a room, writing. Above, Jesus Christ seated within a vesica-shaped border, flanked by six-winged angels. The whole borderd with foliate borders, surmounted with buildings.
159r	Narrow left-hand border in colour-and-gold consisting of a series of small rectangular panels containing (from top to bottom): seated halo'd man (Jesus?), the agnus dei (lamb of God), a halo'd eagle (symbol of St John the Evangelist) and a halo'd man looking to Heaven.