The Consolation of Philosophy

Regarding the speech, which takes its name from the French province, I offer a specimen of a poem composed around the year one thousand¹) On the captivity and death of Boethius²) from the Orléans codex, which Peiper wished to attribute to the 9th century.

The Greek translation of the 13th century, produced by Maximus Planudes—which was first edited by E.-A. Bétant (Geneva 1871) in its entirety, though not using all codices (cf. S. B. Kugéas, Philol. LXXIII [1914/6], 318; Vat. Gr. 328, 329; Vind. phil. Gr. 251)—should not be taken into account in all places treated by Sp. Bases, On certain passages of the books of Boethius, Athena IV (1892) 341—363, but here and there it must be considered; see p. 86, 22; 92, 14.

IV. ON THE CODICES.³)

Here you have the codices older than 1100, which have been used for the purpose of this edition by Peiper, Schepss, or ourselves, with some more recent ones interspersed for reasons that have been provided in their proper places.

1. Alençon 12 (Saint-Évroul-d'Ouche), seemingly 10th century, assigned by Schepss to the K family (see above, p. X). Epigraph begins: Ut gaudere solet.

2. Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum M. 190 (formerly 38), which Peiper was going to use in his second edition, written at the beginning of the 9th century, of French origin with scholia and glosses; it contains the emendations of Pulmann; 116 f., 18 v.⁴) We have marked it *Antv.*⁵)

3. Orléans 270 (226; Fleury), 9th century (according to Schepss, who inspected it), 320 f., 240 x 160, 20 lines. Contains the Consolatio and (starting from f. 231) five Opuscula sacra.

¹) Cf. C. Voretzsch, *Einführ. in d. Stud. d. altfranz. Lit.*² 1913, 31.
²) Munich, Facsimili di antichi mss. per uso delle scuole di filol. neolat. plates 33—39.
³) Regarding the poems beginning with the words Ut gaudere solet and Ut laetus ponti, see Peiper, p. XIIII.
⁴) Another Antwerp (Plantin-Moretus M. 250, formerly 100, 112) in the catalog published by Seymour de Ricci (Rev. des Bibl. XX 1910, p. 227) is attributed to the 13th century; it was attributed to the beginning of the 14th century by J. Denucé (Catalogue des mss. du Musée Plantin-M., Antwerp 1927), as the director of the Plantin Museum, M. Sabbe, kindly informed us.
⁵) Regarding Strasbourg 3762, 11th century: Consolatio III 10—m. XII see Cat. général des mss. des bibl. publ. de France. Départ. XLVII.