Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae, Translated into Middle English

465 Pages·1927·19.074 MB·English

by  Boethius, John Walton, Mark Science (ed.)

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LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MS. A. 4. 11, fol. 62a. Stan. 571,6–576, 3.
Boethius:
De Consolationę Philosophiae
TRANSLATED BY
JOHN WALTON
CANON OF OSENEY
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND GLOSSARY BY
MARK SCIENCE, M.A., Ph.D.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
BY HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMEN CORNER, E.C. 4.
1927.
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Original Series, No.170.
PRINTED INGREATBRITAIN BYRICHARDCLAY& Sons,LIMITED,
BUNGAT,SUFFOLK,
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PREFACE
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In the present edition of John Walton's translation of Boethius
based on the Lincoln Cathedral MS. A, 4, 11, an effort has been
made to produce an accuratetext. Lackof the originalmanuscript of
the translator even ofadirectrecensionfromithasmadeemendation
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necessary where scribal errors have crept in, but all emendations have
been indicted, and, where possible, have the support of the Latin
original, of Chaucer from whose prose translation Walton often
borrowed slavishly, and ofreadings fromother MSS. The collations,
for the most part, give variant readings ratherthan variant spellings.
Some time afterI had worked out the filiation of the MSS. my
attention was drawn to K. Schümmer's similar work on Walton's
Boethius, Untersuchung des Handschriftenverhältnisses und Probe
eines kritischen Textes (Bonner Studien zur englischen Philologie,
Heft VI). Hebased his investigations on extracts containing about
one-third of the whole translation, and collatedfrom 14 MSS.and the
printed edition. That our conclusions do not differ widely helps to
strengthen both.
I should like to express my warmest thanks to the Dean and
Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral who permittedtheir manuscript to be
kept at Sheffield wliile I transcribed it. To Canon R. M. Woclley,
who drew my attention to this.MS. I am very grateful. I am also
indebted to the Librarians of Trinity College, Oxford (J. R. Weaver,
M.A.), Balliol Coll. (A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A.), and Christ
Church(H. W. Blunt,M.A.),fortheirkindnessinputtingMSS. atmy
disposal, as well as to the Librarians of the Bodleian and Cambridge
University, and the Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum . For his
courtesy in permitting me the use of theLibrary of St. John's College
(Cambridge) while I examined the MS. I am grateful to Mr. C. W.
Previté-Orton. My thanks are also due to the Trustees of the Bishop