Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 to 524)

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 to 524)
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I shall translate into Latin every work of
Aristotle's that comes into my hands, and I
shall write commentaries on all of them any
subtlety of logic, any depth of moral insight,
and perception of scientific truth that Aristotle
has set down, I shall arrange, translate, and
illuminate by the light of a commentary. And I
shall also translate and comment upon all Plato's
dialogues and put them into Latin form. Having
completed this not unworthwhile project, I shall
bring the thought of Aristotle and Plato somehow
into harmony, and show that these two
philosophers are not at odds in everything as a
great many people suppose. from Boethius's
Comentarii in Librum Aristotelis Perihermeneias,
an earlier text thatn the Consolation quoted in
Seth Lerer, Boethius and Dialogue Literary
Method in the Consolation of Philosophy
(Princeton, 1985), p.14
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Raphael, The School of Athens (1510-11 fresco
Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome)
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Jean de Meun offers his translation of the
Consolation to Margaret of EnglandUniversitätsbi
bliothek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
after 1476
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Boethius On the Consolation of Philosophy (with
commentary by Nicholas Trivet) Glasgow, MS
Hunter 374 (V.1.11) Italy 1385
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Folio 49v from Boethius' On the Consolation of
Philosophy with Trivets commentaryGlasgow, MS
Hunter 374 (V.1.11) 
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DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE, TRANSLATED BY JOHN
WALTON (1410) Schoyen collection, MS
615(England, c. 1420-25)
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Consolation of PhilosophyParis, BnF, end of
fifteenth century
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Lady Philosophy and the prisoner
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Boethius and Lady Philosophy
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Lady Philosophy and the prisonerBayerische
Staatsbibliothek München, clm 2599 (13th c.)
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Lady Philosophy (University of Leipzig MS 1253
13th c.)
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Everything that is known is comprehended not
according to its own nature, but according to the
ability to know of those who do the
knowing Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
V.pr.4

• Intelligence divine--knows forms
• Reason humanknows species
• Imagination mobile animal--knows shape
  without matter
• Sensation immobile animal-- knows shape
  with matter

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Youtube Boethius cliphttp//www.youtube.com/watc
h?v6rAWPevQFq4
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Boethian moments in Troilus and Criseyde
I-III TC 1.729-35 cp. Boethius 1 pr.4 (Green,
p. 9 riverside, p. 401) TC 1.840-54 cp.
Boethius 2 pr. 1 (Green, p. 22 Riverside, p.
409) and 2 pr. 3 (Green, p. 26 Riverside, p.
411) TC 1.857-58 cp. Boethius 1 pr. 4 (Green,
p. 9 Riverside, p. 401) TC 3.813-40 cp.
Boethius 2 pr. 4 (Green, pp. 29-30 Riverside, p.
413) TC 3.1625-28 cp. Boethius 2 pr. 4 (Green,
p. 27 Riverside, p. 411) TC 3.1744-71 cp.
Boethius 2 m. 8 (Green, p. 41 Riverside, p. 420)