Information on boethri-1785

Author Ridpath, Philip
Birthdate b. 1721, d. 1788
Filename boethri-1785
Manuscript n/a
Date of composition 1785
Genre PHILOSOPHY
Edition Boethius's Consolation of philosophy. Translated from the Latin, with notes and illustrations. London: printed for C. Dilly.
ESTC number
Gale number
Sample 15.9-25.6 (= 1.4) (added in second edition),
27.11-29.23 (= 1.5) (added in second edition),
30.18-33.25 (= 1.6) (added in second edition),
36.13-39.25 (= 2.1) (added in second edition),
40.9-43.13 (= 2.2) (added in second edition),
44.9-47.16 (= 2.3) (added in second edition),
48.13-54.11 (= 2.4) (added in second edition),
55.7-60.16 (= 2.5) (added in second edition),
62.15-65.18 (= 2.6) (added in second edition),
67.9-72.10 (= 2.7) (added in second edition),
73.13-74.25 (= 2.8) (added in second edition),
77.16-79.5 (= 3.1) (added in second edition),
80.1-84.26 (= 3.2) (added in second edition),
86.7-89.6 (= 3.3) (added in second edition),
89.13-92.5 (= 3.4) (added in second edition),
92.15-96.16 (= 3.5) (added in second edition),
97.11-99.8 (= 3.6) (added in second edition),
100.1-100.26 (= 3.7) (added in second edition),
101.9-103.3 (= 3.8) (added in second edition),
104.9-109.16 (= 3.9) (included from first edition on),
110.18-117.24 (= 3.10) (included from first edition on),
118.20-125.6 (= 3.11) (included from first edition on),
126.3-131.24 (= 3.12) (added in second edition),
135.14-137.20 (= 4.1) (added in second edition),
139.3-146.6 (= 4.2) (added in second edition),
147.13-151.4 (= 4.3) (added in second edition),
152.17-161.28 (= 4.4) (included from first edition on),
162.17-164.7 (= 4.5) (added in second edition),
165.9-178.8 (= 4.6) (included from first edition on),
181.5-184.8 (= 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.

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. 102-105.