MINIATURIST, English
(active in the 12th century in Winchester)

Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae

12th century
Manuscript (MS Auct. F.6.5)
Bodleian Library, Oxford

The Consolation of Philosophy is a work by the sixth-century philosopher Boethius that has been described as having had the single most important influence on the Christianity of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance and as the last great work of the Classical Period.

The miniature on folio IV of this late 12th-century English codex depicts the Lady Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison.




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