![]() Helen has a flick of rouge on her cheeks. On one page of the discoloured parchment, Helen of Troy, dressed in the fashionable robes of the day, stands on a parapet while flags flutter on the towers of the castle behind her she stares down at Paris who is climbing up to greet her. The Consolation is a fusion of Christian and pagan principles written in an attempt to identify the root of happiness – and set down while the author Boethius was awaiting execution in Pavia. Created in 1406 it is an illustrated version of Boethius’ sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy. In the archives of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, there is an infrequently studied medieval manuscript.
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