The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 22x14cm, lv,239 pp 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.].