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London. British Library, Harley MS 3095

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Harley MS 3095
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  • Latin
Title
  • Vita Boethii ; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi ; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae ; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur ; De hebdomadibus ; Contra Eutychen et Nestorium
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  • Preferred form
    • Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
    Original form
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Senator, c 485-585
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    • CASSIODORIUS
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (0490?-0580?)
    • Cassiodoro
    • Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
    • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
    • Cassiodorus
    • CASSIODORUS (Magnus Aurelius)
    • Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
    • Cassiodori
    • CASSIODORUS
    • Cassiodore
    • Cassiodore 0490?-0580?
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
    • Casiodoro, Magno Aurelio
    • Cassiodor, Flavi Magne Aureli, ca. 490-ca. 580
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius 490-583
    • Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580
    • Author: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
    • Cassiodorus Senator
    • Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, senator, 485?-580?
    • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-583)
    • Senator, Cassiodorus, 485-580
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Cassiodore (v. 485-v. 580))
    • Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ca.485-ca.580)
    • Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580 > , co-autor
    • Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580
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  • Preferred form
    • Eugène de Tolède (saint, 06..?-0657)
    Original form
    • Eugenius of Toledo, d 657, Bishop of Toledo
    Other form
    • Eugenius Toletanus (saint ; 06..?-0657)
    • Eugenius Toletanus
    • S. Eugenius
    • Eugène de Tolède (saint ; 06..?-0657)
    • Eugenius Toletanus ep.
    • Eugène de Tolède (06..?-0657 ; saint)
    • Eugène de Tolède, saint, 06..?-0657
    • Eugene II, of Toledo, Saint, Archbishop of Toledo, d. 657
    • Eugenius Toletanus -657
    • Author: Eugenius, Toletanus
    • Eugenius (-657)
    • Eugenio de Toledo, m. 657
    • Eugenius <Toletanus>
    • Eugenius, Toletanus
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  • Preferred form
    • Boèce (0480?-0524)
    Original form
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525
    Other form
    • BOECE
    • BOETIUS
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (0480?-0524)
    • Boèce
    • Boezio
    • Boèce (0480?-0524)
    • Anicius Manlius Boethius
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, 480-524
    • Boécio, fl. 480-524
    • Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus - ca. 480 - 524 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus - ca. 480 - 524 - auteur
    • Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus - ca. 480 - 524 - auteurvertaler
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  • Preferred form
    • Bovo Corbeiensis (08..-0916)
    Original form
    • Bovo II of Corvey, d 916, Abbot of Corvey
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Description
  • The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann and Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen (2005)). f. 1*r–1*v: Pen trials, including a large erased circle (double-line in red).f. 1*v: ‘Hę sunt dyptongi grecorum’, followed by two lines of trial Greek characters. f. 1v: Anonymous, Vita Boethii (Life of Boethius), beginning: ‘Tempore Theodorici regis insignis auctor Boetius claruit’. ff. 1v–2r: Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. 580), Anecdoton Holderi (Anecdote of Holder), beginning: ‘Boetius dignitatibus summis excelluit utraque lingua peritissimus orator’. ff. 2v–110v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) 1–3 metrical line 9, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses. ff. 47r–59r: Bovo II (d. 916), abbot of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae 3 metre 9, ‘O qui perpetua’. ff. 59r–61v: Commentary on ‘O qui perpetua’. ff. 2v–110v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 3 prose 10–5, with glosses. f. 111r: List of Byzantine offices. f. 111r: Eugenius (d. 657), archbishop of Toledo, Libellus carminum (Book of Chants) 37.1–7. f. 111v: Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a Latin translation. German-style neumes (Cologne?), early 11th century. Neumes are also occasionally found throughout the manuscript used as signposts for marginal glosses.f. 113r: Added sketch of a knotted cross. ff. 113v–121v: Boethius, De sancta trinitate (On the Holy Trinity) , with glosses. ff. 121v–123r: Boethius, Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur (Whether Father, Son and Holy Spirit May Be Substantially Predicated of the Divinity), with glosses. ff. 123r–132v: Boethius, De hebdomadibus (On the Seven Days) , with glosses. ff. 132v–149v: Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorium (Against Eutyches and Nestorius) , with glosses, ending imperfectly. Decoration:A full-page diagram of the seven spheres of the universe in red and brown (f. 112v).Rubrics in red square capitals. New sections open with an enlarged capital.
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