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

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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

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.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rk498hs4898/MS_214.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sy606mm7249/214.pdf
Contains
Title
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
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/rb296hb9129
Location MS 214
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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