Boethius Bibliography
Complete Latin Works
Manlii Severini Boethii Opera omnia, Patrologia cursus completus, Series latina, 63-64, Ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1882, 1891). [Complete works of Boethius in Latin; contains many corrupt texts and some spurious works]
Editions of the Latin De consolatione philosophiae
Bieler, Ludovicus, ed., Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii Philosophiae Consolatio , Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, XCIV, Boethius, Opera, 1 (Turnhout, 1957; rev. ed. 1984). [Latin text with bibliography]
Moreschini, Claudio, ed., Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae; Opuscula theologica (Munich, 2000). [Latin text of the Consolation and the Theological Tractates]
O'Donnell, James J., ed., Boethius Consolatio Philosophiae, 3 Vols, Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries (Bryn Mawr, 1984; 1990). [Latin text based upon Wilhelm Wienberger, from Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Lationorum 67; includes commentary on grammar and text of the Consolatio, with brief biographical and metrical introduction].
Stewart, H. F., E. K. Rand, and S. J. Tester, ed. and trans., Boethius: The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy, Loeb Classical Library 74 (Cambridge, Mass., 1973). [Latin text with facing modern English translation]
Modern English Translations of The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Joel C. Relihan (Indianapolis, 2001).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. P. G. Walsh (Oxford, 1999).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V. E. Watts (London, 1969; rev. ed. 1999).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. S. J. Tester (Cambridge, Mass., 1973).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Richard Green (New York, 1962).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy , trans. W.V. Cooper (London, 1902).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy , trans. H. R. James (London, 1897).
Secondary Sources (for a general introduction to Boethian Studies)
Barrett, Helen M., Boethius: Some Aspects of his Times and Work (New York, 1965).
Chadwick, Henry, Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (Oxford, 1981).
Courcelle, Pierre, La Consolation de Philosophie dans la tradition littéraire: antécédents et postéritié de Boèce (Paris, 1967).
___. Late Latin Writers and Their Greek Sources, trans. Harry Wedeck (Cambridge, Mass., 1969).
Discenza, Nicole Guenther, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius (Albany, 2005).
Gibson, Margaret, ed., Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence (Oxford, 1981).
Gruber, Joachim, Kommentar zu Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae (Berlin, 1978; rev. and repr., 2006).
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography , Garland Medieval Bibliographies, 7 (New York, 1992).
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips, eds., New Directions in Boethian Studies , Studies in Medieval Culture XLV (Kalamazoo, 2007).
Lerer, Seth, Boethius and Dialogue (Princeton, 1985).
Marenbon, John, Boethius, Great Medieval Thinkers (Oxford, 2003).
Masi, Michael, ed., Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays, Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics 18 (Bern, 1981).
Minnis, Alastair J., Chaucer's Boèce and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius (Cambridge, Eng., 1993).
Obertello, Luca, Severino Boezio, 2 Vols. (Rome, 1974).
Patch, Howard Rollin, The Tradition of Boethius: A Study of His Importance in Medieval Culture (New York, 1935).
Reiss, Edmund, Boethius, Twayne's World Authors Series 672 (Boston, 1982).
Stewart, Hugh Fraser, Boethius: An Essay (Edinburgh, 1891).
For a more comprehensive select bibliography of Boethian primary and secondary sources, see Phillips, Philip Edward, “Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: A Selected Annotated Bibliography,” in A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Philip Edward Phillips and Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., forthcoming from Brill.
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