The Consolation of Philosophy

Trithemius ignored worthy matters (Chron. Hirsaug. I 113 ad a. 970.): "In these times, after Wernher, Poppo, a venerable monk and teacher of schools, was established in the monastery of Fulda by the consent of all. As Meginfridus testifies, he was the first among all to explain Boethius’s books On the Consolation with his own commentaries." Schepss (p. 159) suspects that Trithemius confused Poppo with Bovo, who was Abbot of New Corvey at the beginning of the tenth century and, at the urging of Bovo, his relative the Bishop of Châlons, wrote a commentary on the ninth poem of the third book; see Angelo Mai (who used a certain Vatican codex; cf. Harl. 3095, Met. 377), Class. auct. III 331–345 and Migne LXIV 1239; I. A. Endres in Ann. philos. soc. Goerres XXV (1912), 364. You have the Metrical Genres of Servatus Lupus,¹) who died as Abbot of Ferrières shortly after 862, in Peiper p. XXV, and we gain nothing from the consulted codices, which are noted in chapter IV of this preface as containing Lupus’s treatise (F seems to be the best). He mentions the codices of Boethius’s Arithmetic and Topics (Mon. Germ. Epist. VI 16, 26; 20, 6; 24, 24); whether he composed a commentary on the Consolation cannot be affirmed or denied.²) You will also find specimens of commentaries in the work that Naumann entitled Notkers Boethius,³) looking back to Notker Labeo’s Old High German version, which was composed if not at the end of the 10th century, then at the beginning of the 11th.⁴) As for the commentary of Remigius of Auxerre⁵) (R, cf. the Trier codex below)...