[2526] Ibid., 26-8. At the time I went through the various catalogues of MSS in the British Museum item by item it was not my intention to include Boethius in this investigation, and I am therefore unable to say whether the Museum has MSS which may throw further light upon the problems connected with the mathematical treatises ascribed to Boethius. Manitius mentions no English MSS in this connection, but there are likely to be some at London, Oxford, or Cambridge.
[2527] Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, translated from the Latin by George Colville, 1556; ed. with Introduction by E. B. Box, London, 1897, p. xviii.
[2528] Manitius (1911) pp. 35-6; Usener, Anecdota Holderi, Bonn, 1877, pp. 48-59; E. K. Rand, Der dem Boethius zugeschriebene Traktat De fide catholica, 1901. The De fide catholica, however, is not mentioned by Cassiodorus and is regarded as spurious.
[2529] De consol. philos., III, 8, 21.
[2530] De consol. philos., IV, 1.
[2531] Ibid., III, 9, 1; III, 12, 14; III, 9, 10; III, 12, 99; II, 8, 13.
[2532] Ibid., IV, 6, 10, “In hac enim de providentiae simplicitate, de fati serie, de repentinis casibus, de cognitione ac praedestinatione divina, de arbitrii libertate quaeri solet.” To the ensuing argument are devoted the sixth and seventh chapters of Book IV and all of Book V.
[2533] Ibid., IV, 6, 21.
[2534] Ibid., IV, 6, 30.
[2535] Ibid., IV, 6, 48.