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Appendix: Boethius’ works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

By
John Magee  and
John Marenbon
Edited by
John Marenbon
John Marenbon
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Summary

This Appendix is designed as a user’s guide to Boethius’ works. It is divided according to the four main spheres of his activity – (A) mathematical subjects; (B) logic; (C) theology; (D) the Consolation – with additional sections on (E) lost works and (F) works sometimes misattributed to him. For each work, there is a very brief description, any questions over its authenticity and completeness are considered and a dating given, where possible; the best edition is cited (and any other useful ones) and details of translations and commentaries given, where applicable.

Among the discussions of the chronology of Boethius’ works are Usener (1877), Rand (1901), Brandt (1903), McKinlay (1907), Kappelmacher (1929), and De Rijk (1964). There are critical examinations of the tradition of dating in De Rijk (1964), 1–4, and by Magee in Boethius (1998), xvii–xxiii.

NB: AL=Aristoteles Latinus, 1961–75.

MATHEMATICAL WORKS

On Arithmetic (De arithmetica). Adapted translation of a treatise by the Neo-Pythagorean Nicomachus of Gerasa. Edns Boethius (1999) or Boethius (1995) with facing French translation; trans. Masi (1983). Probable dating for the mathematical writings c. 500–6 (Brandt (1903), 152–4; 234–7).

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The Cambridge Companion to Boethius , pp. 303 - 310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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