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| Keywords: Philosophia-ladder-of-liberal-arts-leipzig-univ-bibl-lat-1253-f3r-c1230.jpg Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy from around 1230 The incipit can be clearly read Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi Flebilis heu maestos cogor inire modos I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures A personification of Philosophy is shown holding a book Leading up to the book is a ladder whose steps are the seven Liberal Arts Grammatica Dialectica Rhetorica Arithmetica Geometria Musica and Astronomia The original is held by Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig De consolatione philosophiae MS 1253 f 3r c 1230 Universitats Bibliothek Leipzig https //www ub uni-leipzig de author 1230 PD-old-100 PD-1996 Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius Personifications Consolation of Philosophy 13th-century manuscripts Allegories | ||||
