Beinecke MS 198                                                       Italy, s. XIV^^2
Nicolas Trevet, Commentarius in Boethium

          ff. 1r-118v    [First prologue:] Explanationem librorum boetij de
     consolatione philosophica [much of f. 1r badly rubbed and
     illegible]...[f. 2r, second prologue:] Consolationes tue letificauerunt
     animam meam. psalmo nonagesimo tertio. Inter letari et letificari hoc
     interesse uidetur...[f. 3r, Commentary:] Carmina. Volens igitur Boetius
     agere de consolatione phylosophica...Et sic terminatur liber quintus
     continens prosas vi et metra vi. et sunt uniuers*** libro toto prose
     xxxviiij. et metra totidem. deo gratias.

          R. J. Dean, "The Life and Works of Nicholas Trevet," unpublished
     D. Phil. dissertation (Oxford, 1938).

          Parchment (thick, mottled), ff. ii (paper) + 118 + ii (paper), 270
     x 195 (208 x 149) mm. Written in 2 columns of 38-40 lines; single
     vertical bounding lines; ruled in hard point on flesh side.
          I-XIV^^8, XV^^6. Catchwords between bounding lines in center of
     lower margin, some enclosed in decorative rectangles.
          Written in neat round gothic by one scribe who also made
     corrections to the text.
          Large initial, f. 1r, in red, with black penwork designs (worn).
     Plain initials and paragraph marks, in red, throughout. Spaces left for
     rubrics.
          Several folios, including first and last, are illegible in
     sections due to rubbing.
          Binding: s. xix. Brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-
     tooled.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th century; early
     provenance unknown. Presented to Yale in 1954 by Robert J. Barry.

     secundo folio: dirigens

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 39, no. 198.

     Barbara A. Shailor