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Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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  • Carmina qui quondam
  • Heu quam praecipiti
  • Tunc me discussa
  • Quisquis composito serenus aevo
  • O stelliferi conditor orbis
  • Cum Phoebi radiis grave
  • Nubibus atris condita nullum
  • Haec cum superba verterit vices dextra
  • Si quantas rapidis flatibus incitus
  • Cum polo Phoebus
  • Quisquis volet perennem
  • Felix nimium prior aetas
  • Novimus quantas dederit ruinas
  • Quicumque solam mente
  • Quod mundus stabili fide
  • Quantas rerum flectat habenas
  • Quamvis fluente dives auri gurgite
  • Quamvis se Tyrio
  • Qui se volet esse potentem
  • Omne hominum genus in terris
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  • Huc omnes pariter
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  • Felix qui potuit boni
  • Sunt et enim pennae
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  • Si quis Arcturi
  • Si vis celsi
  • Bella bis quinis
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  • Puro clarum lumine
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Bern, Burgerbibliothek Cod. 455

Bern, Burgerbibliothek Cod. 455

s. ix 2/3, France, region of Paris? (Abbey of St-Denis?), s. x Laon Cathedral

Hymns and varia carmina, to which was added the Office of St Anstrude

  1. Heu quam praecipiti (I:2)
  2. O stelliferi (I:5)
  3. Nubibus atris (I:7)
  4. Qui se volet (III:5)
  5. Omne hominum genus (III:6)
  6. Omne hominum genus (cont.)
  1. BE 455 fol. 26r
  2. BE 455 fol. 26v
  3. BE 455 fol. 27v
  4. BE 455 fol. 29r(i)
  5. BE 455 fol. 29r (ii)
  6. BE 455 fol. 29v

Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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