MANUSCRIPT
Text with embellished diagram - Soldiers on twin towers supported by an elephant
- Date
- [ca 1120-1150]
- Reference
- MSR-05-f027v
- Description
Leaf from Boethius' treatise on music.
Manion notes "The most striking of these embellishments is on f.27v (fig. 8) where the numerical table and proportional diagrams are framed by an elephant supporting twin towers, with soldiers' heads and spears peeping over battlements that help to suggest the topmost curve of the diagram. The diagram so framed is a summary illustrating the application of all the preceding mathematics to musical proportions, which is the principal subject of the treatise".
Quantity: 1 page.
Physical Description: Ms on vellum, 211 x 144mm
Finding Aids: Manion No. 140. Fig. 8.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, ca 480-524 : De Musica
- Format
- 1 page, Manuscripts, Parchment, Ms on vellum, 211 x 144mm
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