Walton's Boethius: From manuscript to print

English Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 398-407

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DOI: 10.1080/00138389908599193     Document Type: Article

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1. The manuscript was brought to light by Irma Taavitsainen, Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist X: Manuscripts in Scandinavian Collections. (Cambridge, 1994), p.18.
2. John Waltons metrische Übersetzung der Consolatio Philosophiae, ed. Karl Schümmer, Bonner Studien zur englischen Philologie, 6 (Bonn, 1914); Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae translated by John Walton, Canon of Oseney, ed. Mark Science, EETS OS 170 (London, 1927 [for 1925]).
3. John Waltons metrische Übersetzung der Consolatio Philosophiae, ed. Karl Schümmer, Bonner Studien zur englischen Philologie, 6 (Bonn, 1914); Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae translated by John Walton, Canon of Oseney, ed. Mark Science, EETS OS 170 (London, 1927 [for 1925]).
4. See, for example, A. McIntosh, M. L. Samuels and M. Benskin, A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, vol. I (Aberdeen University Press, 1986), General Introduction, for a succinct account of this process.
5. The book is listed in STC, no.3200, and in the Index Aureliensis: Catalogus Librarian Sedecimo Saeculo Impressorum, Pt.1 (Geneva, 1970), 4.436, no.121.085. On printing at Tavistock, see H. P. R. Finberg, Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon, 2nd ed. (London, 1969), pp. 290-3, and W. K. Sessions, A Printer's Dozen: The First British Printing Centres to 1557 after Westminster and London, 2nd ed. (York, 1983), pp. 69-74. Details of Rychard's biography are also given by A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540 (Oxford, 1974), p. 484.
6. The book is listed in STC, no.3200, and in the Index Aureliensis: Catalogus Librarian Sedecimo Saeculo Impressorum, Pt.1 (Geneva, 1970), 4.436, no.121.085. On printing at Tavistock, see H. P. R. Finberg, Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon, 2nd ed. (London, 1969), pp. 290-3, and W. K. Sessions, A Printer's Dozen: The First British Printing Centres to 1557 after Westminster and London, 2nd ed. (York, 1983), pp. 69-74. Details of Rychard's biography are also given by A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540 (Oxford, 1974), p. 484.
7. The book is listed in STC, no.3200, and in the Index Aureliensis: Catalogus Librarian Sedecimo Saeculo Impressorum, Pt.1 (Geneva, 1970), 4.436, no.121.085. On printing at Tavistock, see H. P. R. Finberg, Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon, 2nd ed. (London, 1969), pp. 290-3, and W. K. Sessions, A Printer's Dozen: The First British Printing Centres to 1557 after Westminster and London, 2nd ed. (York, 1983), pp. 69-74. Details of Rychard's biography are also given by A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540 (Oxford, 1974), p. 484.
8. The book is listed in STC, no.3200, and in the Index Aureliensis: Catalogus Librarian Sedecimo Saeculo Impressorum, Pt.1 (Geneva, 1970), 4.436, no.121.085. On printing at Tavistock, see H. P. R. Finberg, Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon, 2nd ed. (London, 1969), pp. 290-3, and W. K. Sessions, A Printer's Dozen: The First British Printing Centres to 1557 after Westminster and London, 2nd ed. (York, 1983), pp. 69-74. Details of Rychard's biography are also given by A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540 (Oxford, 1974), p. 484.
9. An edition of this by B. S. Donaghey is in preparation for the Middle English Texts series.
10. See Tudor Exeter: Tax Assessments 1489-1595 including the Military Survey 1522 ed. M. M. Rowe (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new series XXII, 1977), p.25.
11. See E. Hodnett, English Woodcuts 1480-1535 (Oxford, 1935, repr. with corrections 1973), p. 443, items 2360-1.
12. The catchword evidence is also confirmed by what appear to be early quire signatures for the benefit of a binder. They occur in the lower corner of certain pages. Each series enumerates the first four leaves of the quires of eight. They appear as follows: fol. 5r, c 1 (very faint), fol. 6r, c 2, fol. 7r, c 3, fol. 8 is torn and the lower half is lost now; the next series is fol. 13r, d 1 (very faint), fol. 14r, d 2, fol. 15r, d 3., fol. 16r, d 4; next series fol. 21r, e j., fol. 22r, e ij., fol. 23r, e 3., fol. 24r, e 4.; next series fol. 28r, F 1., fol. 29r, F 2., fol. 30r, F 3, fol. 31r, F 4, and so on. The last series is found on fol. 70r, m j, fol.71r, m ij, fol. 72r, m iij, fol. 73r, m iiij. The ink is black or brown; red is used in the marks of fol. 44r, h i., fol. 45r, h ij, fol. 46r, h iij, fol. 47r, h iiij.
13. Dictionary of National Biography, ed. L. Stephen. V (London, 1886), pp. 398-9.
14. The impressions are to the left of the body of text, extending slightly from between the relevant lines, looping upwards and forming a circle, then crossing the horizontal line descending in a slight curve to the left. They are observable on the following leaves at least (a ? denotes some uncertainty of the impression): fols. 6v(?), 7r (dots), 7v (a dot), 10r, 11r, 12r, 12v (marking st.3, 1.4, though the page in P begins with 1.2), 13r, 14r, 14v, 15r, 16r, 17r, 18r, 18v(?), 19r, 19v, 20r, 20v(?), 21r, 21v(?), 28v, 30r(?), 30v, 31r, 31v, 32r(?), 33r, 33v, 34r, 34v, 35r, 35v, 36v, 37r, 42r, 50r, 59v(?), 60v, 61v, 62r(?), 62v, 63r, 63v, 64v, 66r, 66v, 67r(?), 67v, 68r, 68v.