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  • Bergmann Rolf / Stricker Stephanie, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, Bd. II, Berlin 2005, S. 560-562.
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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 287.
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Handschriftentitel: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Entstehungsort: St Gall (Bruckner)
Entstehungszeiten:
  • s. X (Bruckner)
  • s. IX (Scherrer)
Beschreibstoff: Parchment, with parchment and wooden binding. Thin, dirty uncarefully cut but well-smoothed parchment, flesh-side dirty yellowish, hair-side brownish with pores and spots; some old holes. HFHF.
Umfang: 186 pp.
Format: 219-223 x 161-164 mm
Lagenstruktur: Mainly quaternions, marked in red ink pp. 20-52 as I-III. However p. 1-4 form a binio, p. 181-186 form a ternio. (Bruckner)
Seiteneinrichtung: Single column, 21 lines per page. Written area 15.3 x 11.7-12 (10.2-10.5) cm. (Bruckner)
Schrift und Hände: Mainly by 1 hand in rust to dark brown ink, s. X, with some interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
Buchschmuck:
  • Titles in rustics, in red or normal ink.
  • Initial C on p. 13 decorated with vine motif, in red; decorated red initials also on p. 39 (P), p. 70 (J), p. 116 (H), p. 158 (D). (Bruckner)
Spätere Ergänzungen: Probationes pennae (s. X onward) on p. 1, 4, 5.
Einband: In old wooden binding with a parchment backing, without frets. Two clasps now missing. Paper pastedowns, and 1 paper flyleaf at front. On the spine, a note (s. XIX) Boetius de Consolatione Philosophia. (Bruckner)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. p. 1-3 Notker Labeo (?): Prologus de translatione imperii Romani Oportet nos memores esse quę de romano imperio …–… regnum defecit ut paulus prophetauit. OHG version of this text is found in CSG 825, p. 5
    Edition
    • Notker Labeo [?]. Prologus, ed. H. Hattemer in Notker's des Teutschen Werke, 2: Troestungen der Philosophie (Denkmahle des Mittlelalters. St. Gallen's altteutsche Sprachschætze 3). St Gall: Scheitlin und Zollikofer, 1844-9, p. 11-12. Google Books Edition based on this manuscript alone
    Bibliography
    • For further bibliography, see IMB and LexMA
  • 2. p. 3 [De differentia inter carmina et modos] >Carmina.< Distat inter carmina et modos …–… in quibus liberales artes continentur. These appear similar to Remigius' glosses on the Consolatio
  • 3. p. 6-12 Lupus Servatus: De metris Boetii libellus Q[uin]que libros philosophicae consolationis insignis auctor boetius …–… permeant figuris … per duplices in reliquis per simplices computari. Contains similar addition at the end to that found in Naples IV.G.68, 4r
    Edition
    • Lupus Servatus. De metris Boetii libellus, ed. R. Peiper (Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Philosophiae Consolationis libri quinque). Leipzig: Teubner, 1871, p. xxv-xxviiii. Google Books Critical edition but does not use this manuscript
    Bibliography
    • Brown, Virginia. "Lupus of Ferrières on the Metres of Boethius'", in Latin Script and Letters, A.D. 400-900: Festschrift Presented to Ludwig Bieler on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, ed. John J. O'Meara and Bern Naumann. Leiden: Brill, 1976, p. 63-79. Google Books
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
  • 4. p. 13-186 Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi …–… cum ante oculos agitis iudicis cuncta cernentis;
    • 4_1. (p. 13-38) Liber I
    • 4_2. (p. 38-69) Liber II
    • 4_3. (p. 70-115) Liber III
    • 4_4. (p. 116-157) Liber IIII
    • 4_5. (p. 157-186) LIber V
    Index Reference Numbers
    • CPL 878
    Editions
    • Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae, ed. C. Moreschini in Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae; opuscula theologica (Bibliotheca Teubneriana). Munich and Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005, p. 3–162. Critical edition using this manuscript, reporting it by siglum F
    • Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, ed. E.K. Rand (Loeb Classical Library 74). Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1990, p. 130–434. Not a critical edition, but independently constructed text by Rand
    • Boethius. Philosophiae consolatio, ed. L. Bieler (CCSL 94). Turnhout: Brepols, 1957, p. 1–105. Critical edition using ('raro') this manuscript, reporting it by siglum F
    • Boethius. Philosophiae consolationis libri quinque, ed. G. Weinberger (with R. Peiper, G. Schepss, A. Engelbrecht & E. Hauler) (CSEL 67). Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1934, p. 1–127. Critical edition sometimes using this manuscript, reporting in by siglum F
    • Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii: Philosophiae consolationis libri quinque, ed. R. Peiper. Leipzig: Teubner, 1871, p. 3–145. Google Books Critical edition but does not use this manuscript
    Translation
    • Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. S. J. Tester (Loeb Classical Library 74). Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1990, p. 131–435.
    Bibliography
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
  • 5. p. 13-186 [Glossae Germanicae et Latinae super Boethio]
    Editions
    • E. von Steinmeyer. Die althochdeutschen Glossen (Vol. 2). Berlin: Weidmann, 1882, p. 65-66. Google Books
    Bibliography
    • Courcelle, Pierre. La consolation de philosophie dans la tradition littéraire. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1967, p. 270, 404.
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
  • 6. p. 13-186 Vita Boethii I T[empore] theoterici regis insignis [auc]tor …–… specie [poematis] conscrip[serat].
    Editions
    • Vita Boetii I, ed. R. Peiper in Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Philosophiae Consolationis libri quinque Leipzig: Teubner, 1871, p. xxx-xxxi. Google Books Critical edition but does not use this manuscript
    Bibliography
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
Codicological Bibliography
  • Altdeutsch: Katalog aller allgemein bekannten altdeutschen Handschriften Althochdeutsch, Altsächsisch, Altniederfränkisch, ed. G. Köbler (Arbeiten zur Rechts- und Sprachwissenschaft 60). Gießen-Lahn: Arbeiten zur Rechts- und Sprachwissenschaft Verlag, 2005, p. 637.
  • R. Bergmann and S. Stricker. Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften (Vol. 2). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005, p. 560-2 (no. 242). Google Books
  • L. Smith Codices Boethiani (Vol. 2). London-Turin: The Warburg Institute, 2001, p. 206-7.
  • Bruckner, Albert. Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz: St. Gallen II (Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3). Geneva: Roto-Sadag, 1938, p. 118.
  • Scherrer, Gustav. Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen. Halle: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, p. 1875. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen