Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 352

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  • 0800 - 0999
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 352: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
  • Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
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  • Preferred form
    • Boèce (0480?-0524)
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    • Author
    Original form
    • Boethius
    Other form
    • BOECE
    • BOETIUS
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (0480?-0524)
    • Boèce
    • Boezio
    • Boèce (0480?-0524)
    • Anicius Manlius Boethius
    • Boece
    • Boetius
    • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
    • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius
    • Boecius
    • Boecii
    • Anilius Manlius Severinus Boethius
    • Anicii Manlii Severini Boëtii
    • ANICUS MANLIUS BOETIUS
    • BOETHIUS
    • Boèce 0480?-0524
    • Boeci, ca. 480-524 o 5
    • Boecio, Anicio Manlio Torcuato Severino
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus 480-524
    • Boethius, d. 524
    • Author: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
    • Translator: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
    • Boethius, -524
    • Boethius (c.480-524)
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525
    • Boèce (480?-524)
    • Boethius, -524, translator
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus &datl=480-524
    • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-524)
    • Boethus <Tarsensis>
    • Boethius (-524)
    • Boèce (Boetius Anicius Mantius Severinus - 480-524) > Philosophe
    • Boèce (Boetius Anicius Mantius Severinus - 480-524)
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (ca. 480-524)
    • Boécio, fl. 480-524
    • Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus - ca. 480 - 524 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus - ca. 480 - 524 - auteur
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 352 contains Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Arithmetica. It was written in the middle of the tenth century at St Augustine's, Canterbury, in the script known as 'Square minuscule', a Southumbrian English variety of Insular minuscule. It is quite a large format book, elegantly written with large margins, and was probably always intended to contain the glosses which have been added by contemporary and slightly later hands. The manuscript may have had a Welsh exemplar. It has later provenance at St Augustine's, Canterbury and is included in its medieval library catalogue. At some point it has lost its ending.


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    2r-80v - Boethius, De institutione arithmetica

    Note: In red

    rubric: (2r) Domino meo patricio suma fide boetius salutem

    incipit: (2r) In dandis accipiendisque muneribus

    Note: (LXII (actually LXIII) 1079)

    Note: Glosses, some in small upright script, beginning:

    incipit: (2r) Ordo est. Si liquido constabit nec ab hoc aliud inuentum

    Note: Others in the hand of the text

    explicit: (3v) auctor merito quam probator

    Note: In red

    rubric: (3v) Finit prologus sesibuti

    rubric: (3v) Incipit prologus nicomachi

    incipit: (3v) Inter omnes prisce auctoritatis uiros

    Note: Diagrams in red: some, e.g. on f. 30r, with slight ornament. Initials in green and red

    Note: (34r) Liber II

    Note: Ends imperfectly in capitulum liii (or liv)

    explicit: (80v) uel ab inaequalibus ad aequalia aequaliter uel quotlibet

    Note: The last rubric is:

    rubric: (80v) De maxima et perfecta symphonia que tribus distenditur interuallis

    Note: The signs used to show the references of the glosses to the text are very noteworthy

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