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Boethius's work is prosimetrical, alternating between prose and verse, and one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Old English translation renders the poems as Old English alliterative verse: these verse translations are known as the Metres of Boethius. The translation is attributed in one manuscript to King Alfred (r. 870–899), and this ...
Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some "Boethian" remarks from Frodo, Treebeard, and Elrond. [19] Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison from a 1385 Italian manuscript
Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's Pastoral Care and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Alfred is also thought to be the author of 50 metrical psalms, but whether the poems were written by him, under his direction or patronage, or as a general part in his reform ...
The beginning of Aristotle's De interpretatione in Boethius' Latin translation Boethius's best known work is the Consolation of Philosophy ( De consolatione philosophiae ), which he wrote at the very end of his career, awaiting his execution in prison.
Chaucer worked, in part, from a translation of the Consolation into French by Jean de Meun but is clear he also worked from a Latin version, correcting some of the liberties de Meun takes with the text. The Latin source was probably a corrupt version of Boethius' original, which explains some of Chaucer's own misinterpretations of the work.
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiæ (1829). [403] With an English translation and notes by J. S. Cardale. [404] A version of De consolatione philosophiæ (The Consolidation of Philosophy), the best known work of Boethius (c. 477 – 524). Another edition (1895), [405] translated by the Rev. Samuel Fox ...
Summa Theologiae (A new English translation in progress, by Alfred Freddoso) Prima pars secunde partis Summe Theologie beati Thome de Aquino. Naples, 1484. (Digitized codex, Latin text, at Somni) Thomas Aquinas Emulator Project, research into the use of generative AI to emulate Thomas Aquinas writing in the format of Summa Theologica
Having first referred to a child's coming of age, the poem describes a number of (particularly fatal) misfortunes which may then befall one: a youth's premature death, famine, warfare and infirmity, the deprivations of a traveller, death at the gallows or on the pyre and self-destructive behaviour through intemperate drinking.