Author: Krapp, George Philip; editor:
Title: The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, nd (1990s). reprint. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, lv,239 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Texts: The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter; The Meters of Boethius. [The manuscript of the "Paris Psalter" is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, catalogue number "Fonds Latin 8824". The present edition includes only the psalms given in Anglo-Saxon metrical translation (psalms 51-150) cf. Introd. p. [vii]-xiii. The Anglo-Saxon metrical portions of Alfred the Great’s translation of "De consolatione philosophiae" of Boethius is from three manuscripts: Ms. Cotton Otho A. VI,in the British museum, Ms. Bodley 180, and Ms. Junius 12, in the Bodleian library. The authorship of the Anglo-Saxon meters of Boethius is not definitely determined, but evidences lead to assigning the work to Alfred the Great. cf. Introd. p. xxxv-xlviii.]

Keywords: Old English Literature, Literary History, Paris Psalter, Boethius, Anglo Saxon, Alfred the Great, Boethius, ,