Sources of the Boece

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William, ed., with the assistance of A. J. Minnis.

Title
Sources of the Boece

Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Physical Description
xiv, 311 pp.

Series
The Chaucer Library.

Description
The book presents hypothetical source texts for Bo, seeking to reconstruct as closely as possible what was accessible to Chaucer when he translated Boethius into Middle English. Provides an edition of Boethius's Latin original and, on facing pages, Jean de Meun's French translation of the Latin.
Accompanying notes include selections from Nicholas Trevet's Latin commentary and various interlinear glosses "from the Remigian tradition," i.e., those attributed to Remigius himself and "later expansions thereof." The introduction surveys critical discussions of the sources of Bo, describes pertinent manuscript traditions, and explains textual methods. Includes collations for the Latin and French texts and a bibliography.

Contributor
Minnis, A. J., ed,

Chaucer Subjects
Boece.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.