St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 844
Titre du manuscrit:
, De consolatione philosophiae
Origine: St Gall (Bruckner)
Périodes:
- s. X (Bruckner)
- s. IX (Scherrer)
Support:
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.
Volume:
186 pp.
Format: 219-223 x 161-164 mm
Composition des cahiers:
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)
Mise en page:
Single column, 21 lines per page. Written area 15.3 x 11.7-12 (10.2-10.5) cm. (Bruckner)
Type d'écritures et copistes: Mainly by 1 hand in rust to dark brown ink, s. X, with some interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
Décoration:
Reliure:
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)
Sommaire:
- 1.
p. 1-3
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 - 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
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
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 - 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 - 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
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