Liber ALCHANDREI philosophi. BOETHIUS, De arithmetica, De musica – ms.
Los Angeles, Getty Mus., MS. 72

Early 15th cent. (c. 1405), France (Paris)
Vellum, 390 x 30 5 mm; i + 117 leaves. Miniatures, borders, two-line initials, running titles and line-endings alternately of blue or burnished gold; numerous diagrams. 16th-century doeskin binding

Illuminated by the Virgil Master. Copied from Paris, BNF lat.17868
Owners: Bought from Royez, Paris, by Sir Thomas Phillips (his MS 1351). Count Antoine Seilern (Phillipps' sale, Sotheby's 1 July 1946, lot 11)

Purchased in 2003

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