Information on boethja-1897

Author James, Henry Rosher (translator).
Birthdate b. 1862, d. 1931
Filename boethja-1897
Manuscript n/a
Date of composition 1897
Genre PHILOSOPHY
Edition The consolation of philosophy of Boethius. London: Routledge.
ESTC number
Gale number
Sample 14.1-21.24 (= 1.4) (added in second edition),
24.1-25.33 (= 1.5) (added in second edition),
27.1-29.31 (= 1.6) (added in second edition),
33.1-35.30 (= 2.1) (added in second edition),
37.1-39.8 (= 2.2) (added in second edition),
40.1-42.11 (= 2.3) (added in second edition),
43.1-47.21 (= 2.4) (added in second edition),
49.1-53.17 (= 2.5) (added in second edition),
55.1-57.31 (= 2.6) (added in second edition),
59.1-62.8 (= 2.7) (added in second edition),
64.1-65.8 (= 2.8) (added in second edition),
71.1-72.10 (= 3.1) (added in second edition),
73.1-76.13 (= 3.2) (added in second edition),
78,1-80.21 (= 3.3) (added in second edition),
82.1-84.9 (= 3.4) (added in second edition),
85,1-86.31 (= 3.5) (added in second edition),
88.1-89.9 (= 3.6) (added in second edition),
90.1-90.25 (= 3.7) (added in second edition),
92.1-93.22 (= 3.8) (added in second edition),
95.1-99.23 (= 3.9) (included from first edition on),
102.1-108.8 (= 3.10) (included from first edition on),
110.1-115.6 (= 3.11) (included from first edition on),
116.1-121.5 (= 3.12) (added in second edition),
127.1-128.30 (= 4.1) (added in second edition),
131.1-137.15 (= 4.2) (added in second edition),
139.1-141.32 (= 4.3) (added in second edition),
144.1-150.33 (= 4.4) (included from first edition on),
152.1-153.9 (= 4.5) (added in second edition),
155.1-164.9 (= 4.6) (included from first edition on),
167.1-169.18 (= 4.7) (added in second edition)
Remarks The sample includes the last half of Book 1 and all of Books 2-4. It corresponds to the samples in the PPCEME and subsumes that in the PPCME2.

There exists an alternate 1897 edition of this translation with different pagination (London: Elliott Stock). There is no earlier 19th-century translation of Boethius. For more information concerning Boethius translations, see Fehlauer, Friedrich. 1909. Die englischen Übersetzungen von Boethius' "De consolatione philosophiae." Normannia: Germanisch-Romanische Bücherei 2. Berlin: Felber. 106-108.