Description
Alternative title
Boethius
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 123
Date created
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language
Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum fragments mounted on paper
Layout
originally 18 lines to a page
Height (mm)
265
Width (mm)
210
Writing
in two very clear hands
Foliation
ff. i-vi + 1-123 + vii-xv
Provenance
Given by Daniel Rogers.
To me the book has very much the appearance of a Canterbury production.
Additions
The manuscript was rebound and the mutilated leaves inlaid, in proper order, in 1911.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 214 is an eleventh-century English copy of Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), De consolatione philosophiae, a popular work in Anglo-Saxon England. It was written by the same scribe as CCCC MS 411. It has a large number of glosses, some in Old English, and the layout of the manuscript suggests that it was always intended to receive this extra material, much of which is from the glosses on Boethius by Remigius of Auxerre (c. 841-c. 908). At some point the manuscript was damaged to an unusual degree by rats, necessitating the mounting of the parchment in frames of paper. The manuscript was not owned by Matthew Parker; it comes from the collection of Daniel Rogers, d. 1591.
- Contents
- Philosophiae consolatio
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