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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.

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

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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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