Philosophy appears to a sleeping Boethius, France, end of 15th century. Philosophy with crown and sceptre stands before Boethius in his bedroom. Taken from a manuscript of Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, MS 6643, Ancien Fonds Latin, Bibliotheque Imperiale. La Philosophie apparait a Boece. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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