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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 214: Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 214: Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio

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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rk498hs4898/MS_214.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sy606mm7249/214.pdf
Contains
  • Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio. 1r-123v
    James
    Boethius. 1r-123v
    Author
    Boethius
    Note
    (1r) The title and beginning of text are in red, green and black capitals
    (1r) Thirteen fragments of leaves belong to Liber I. There are many gaps
    The first book has contemporary marginal and interlinear glosses in Latin. The marginal glosses have Greek letters referring to their places in the text.
    (14r) Liber II begins with f. 14r and has no gap
    The glosses continue into book II: at f. 25v they cease
    (36r) Liber III
    (36r) With the third book begins an Anglo-Saxon gloss in a very pretty and delicate hand: another coarser hand sometimes occurs. The first words are
    (36r) Iam [eallinga] cantum [sang] illa [ƿeg] finiuerat [geendude] ... [þaþ]
    Cameron C9
    This gloss continues to f. 53r (line 1)
    Throughout the book the order of words, especially in the poems, is indicated by (Anglo-Saxon) letters written above the words: but very few if any further glosses occur
    (70r) Liber IV
    (99v) Liber V
    Ends
    Explicit
    (122r) cuncta cernentis
    Rubric
    (122r) Explicit liber quintus feliciter amen
    Note
    (122r) On this page are some later pencil notes (xiii?) in which sums of money are mentioned: very faint
    On f. 123v besides scribbles and probationes pennae is the name Rodbertus (xi, xii)
    The Anglo-Saxon gloss is mentioned by Wanley p. 151
    Bright, American Journal of Philology, V 488, gives an account of the glosses from information supplied by Professor Skeat, and some specimens
TJames
vac.
Stanley
Lib. ab Al. 17
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 214

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