Thursday, March 29, 2012

Glossed Manuscript of Boethius, Prudentius, and Martianus Capella now Catalogued

Naples IV.G.68, produced at St Gall in the later ninth century, contains several works of Boethius (including the famous Consolation of Philosophy), Prudentius' Psychomachia, and the fourth book of Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis.  It also contains many smaller works, including excerpts from Bede, Virgil, Lupus of Ferrières and Walafrid Strabo, as well as many hymns and poems with neumes added.

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