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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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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 844
Titolo del codice: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Luogo di origine: St Gall (Bruckner)
Datazioni:
  • s. X (Bruckner)
  • s. IX (Scherrer)
Supporto materiale: 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.
Dimensioni: 186 pp.
Formato: 219-223 x 161-164 mm
Composizione dei fascicoli: 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)
Disposizione della pagina: Single column, 21 lines per page. Written area 15.3 x 11.7-12 (10.2-10.5) cm. (Bruckner)
Tipo di scrittura e mani: Mainly by 1 hand in rust to dark brown ink, s. X, with some interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
Decorazione:
  • 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)
Aggiunte: Probationes pennae (s. X onward) on p. 1, 4, 5.
Legatura: 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)
Contenuto:
  • 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