Consolationis philsophiae libri V. Angli-Saxonice reddeti ab Alfredo, inclyto Anglo-Saxonum rege
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the Anglo-Saxon translation attributed to King Alfred, printed at Oxford in 1698 by editor Christopher Rawlinson for scholars and antiquarians. The pictures are small engraved plates: a seated philosopher with a standing woman, a bearded scholar with a book, a crowned king in an oval frame labelled Alfredus Rex, and a winged cherub holding a shield of scallop shells, offering a designer ornate framing devices and portrait conventions of early modern scholarly print.
