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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.367–8; Seymour 1 p. 50. 2 separate MSS now bound together.
[1]
f. 1
Allas i wepynge am constreyned to bygynnen vers of sorwful matere þat whilom in florysschyng studie made delitable ditees for lo rendynge muses of poetes enditen to me thynges to be writen and drery vers of wretceterahidnesse weten my face wiþ verray teres at þe leeste no drede …
f. 69
… yif ye nil nat dissimilen syn þat ye worken and don þat is to seyn your dedes or your werk byforn þe eyen of þe iuge þat seeth and demeth alle thinges.
‘Incipit liber boecij de consolacione philosophie’ (f. 1). Chaucer's Boece. IPMEP 43. Ed from this MS in Riverside Chaucer pp. 395–469.
Other texts: Riverside Chaucer p. 1151 lists 11 MSS and two early printed editions. One of the MSS contains only fragments (University of Missouri, Frag. MS. 150) and another only a paraphrase of Book I (BodL Auctarium F.3.5). The early printed editions drew on MSS which are no longer extant: William Caxton, Boecius de Consolacione Philosophie, Westminster 1478 (STC 3199), and William Thynne, the Boece in The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, London 1532 (STC 5068). See Ii.3.21 [1]. For MSS already indexed see IMEP 5 indexing BL Add 10340 [1], IMEP 14 indexing Peniarth 393 [1], and IMEP 18 indexing Camb. Pembroke Col 215 [1].
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