Boèce

En 524, Boèce, ministre du roi ostrogoth Théodoric, est incarcéré à Pavie sous l'inculpation de conspiration et de magie. Rude épreuve pour ce scientifique et philosophe, qui s'est donné pour tâche de transmettre à l'Occident chrétien les trésors de la pensée grecque.Accablé par ce revers de Fortune, il rédige, en prison, son œuvre la plus connue, dans laquelle il se met en scène, dialoguant avec le personnage allégorique de Philosophie, qui le réconforte en lui démontrant combien sont vaines les valeurs mondaines, et enrichissante l'aspiration à l'élévation de l'âme par la sagesse.Cette Consolation de la Philosophie fut l'œuvre à succès du Moyen Âge. Elle fut traduite par Jean de Meun, l'auteur du Roman de la Rose, à l'extrême fin du XIIIe siècle, puis remaniée et commentée à plusieurs reprises. C'est l'une de ces versions glosées que nous présentons à partir du manuscrit Leber 817 de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen, manuscrit qui date de la fin du Moyen Âge.Ce manuscrit est un luxueux in-quarto superbement calligraphié et somptueusement illustré, dont les miniatures sont reproduites sur le CD-Rom qui accompagne cette édition commentée. Les six éditeurs scientifiques sont membres du C.E.R.Ed.I. (Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Éditer-Interpréter), université de Rouen.

• Illo Humphrey | PhD (2004) | HDR (2014) : Université Paris X-Nanterre •
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• BOETHIUS.
His Influence on the European Unity of Culture:
from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154) •
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• English Abstract •

[1] Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius (*Rome, ca. 480 – †Pavia, ca. 524) was one of the powerful bridges of education and general culture between European Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He was the ideal receptacle (ἡ ὑποδοχή | ἡ χώρα) for the threefold scientific-philosophical-ethical Tradition of Knowledge which led up to him, and the ideal reservoir and source (τὸ ὑποδοχεῖον | ἡ κρήνη) for the thirty-three generations of Masters and pupils which followed him. Given the completeness of his general culture and education, that is to say his humanitas, and eruditio institutioque in bonas artes, Boethius can thus be considered the Father of western mediæval scientific-philosophical thought, and indeed his research gave to the post-Roman period the key to understanding the substance of true ideas through the study of fundamental concepts, such as: animae generatio (genesis of the soul-consciousness), substantia numeri (essence of number), principalitas unitatis (primacy of the number 1, that is to say the absolute Unity), continuo proportio superparticularis (regime of the octave), sensuum perceptio et cognitio (sens perception and the cognitive process), summa bona or quattuor uirtutes animae (the wise management of happiness and suffering, of justice and injustice), decem categoriae or decem praedicamenta (the ten categories), quinque uoces (the five universals), et caetera. These important concepts were taught within the framework of the sevenfold canon of the artes liberales (liberal arts), which were divided into two distinct sections, namely: Quadruvium (ars arithmetica• ars musica• ars geometrica• ars astronomica) and Trivium (ars grammatica• ars dialectica-ars logica• ars rhetorica) •

[2] The veritable goal of this study, that is to say its true aim, is to bring better into focus the influence of the research and teachings of the Platonist Boethius on the European post-Roman civilisation between the last quarter of the 8th century and the first half of the 12th century, period during which Europe structured its basic educational, scientific, philosophical and ethical Unity of Culture, and during which took place the slow gestation of the first European universities, created in Italy, France, England, Spain, Germany, etc. Boethius, thus, comes to the forefront as one of the most important sources for the new Carolingian and post-Carolingian branches of the scientific–philosophical Tradition of Knowledge as of 782, the year in which Alcuinus Euboricensis (Alcuin of York, ca. 730 – Tours, 804), invited by Charlemagne, assumed his new functions as Praeceptor of the Schola palatina in Aachen, down to 1154, the year in which the last of the great dynasty of paeceptores of the Schola Carnotensis died, that is to say Theodoricus Carnotensis seu Brito, that is to say: Thierry of Chartres or Thierry the Breton •

[3] The intellectual and cognitive gestation periods of the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries were well-rooted in the very reliable corpus provided by the works of Boethius, and by their multiple glosses and commentaries, corpus which possessed very high standards for civilization management and civilization development. Thus, given the quality of his Opera omnia and his persona, the spirit of Boethius remained alive in his tangible and intangible intellectual patrimony, allowing him, posthumously, to exert a very positive influence on the founders of mediaeval universities of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. In this perspective, we can now better measure the legacy of Boethius within the framework of the European general culture from Alcuin of York to Thierry of Chartres, and, above all his subtle and fundamental influence on the European Unity of Culture, which contributed largely to the birth of the Studia generalia, or Uniuersitas magistrorum ac scholarium uel discipulorum [discipularumque], that is to say the European mediæval university, a fundamentally humanitarian institution born out of the mediæval urban society of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries •

[4] Nota bene: This publication on Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius includes an Introduction with Bibliography (Boethius: Opera omnia | Boethius: Prosopgraphia | Boethius: Hagiographia), a Prologue, 12 chapters, an Epilogue, and 5 Appendices, namely: Bibliography (Boethius and the Liberal Arts), Index-Catalogue of the cited Manuscripts (128 primary sources), General Index-Glossary, Greek Index-Glossary, Index of the 14 Descriptiones (Illustrations, Diagrams, Figures, Charts). The 14 Descriptiones include two glossaries of 9th-century Boethian glosses in tironian notes, that is to say Latin stenography [p. 15, p. 104], and one glossary of 9th-century notae sententiarum, that is to say cross-reference signs or annotation signs [p. 108-110], which accompany the 9th-century Boethian glosses in an important family of 9th-century manuscripts containing the treatise Boethii De institutione musica libri quinque, namely, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds latin: 7200 [origin: Laon – Soissons (?) via Fleury (?)] • 7297 [origin: Fleury – Auxerre (?)] • Orléans 293 (247) [origin: Fleury (?)] • Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginensis latinus 1638 [origin: Fleury (?)], cf. Marco Mostert, The Library of Fleury, Hilversum, 1989 • IH | ih • Explicit •
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• Illo Humphrey, PhD-HDR •
• Mediävist | Musikwissenschaftler | Proto-Philologe •
• Médiéviste | Musicologue | Proto-Philologue •
• Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist •

• BOETHIUS.
His Influence on the European Unity of Culture:
from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154) •
• Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH | Nordhausen | Deutschland | Allemagne | Germany | 2010 | 2012 | 237 Seiten | 35 Euros •
• http://www.bautz.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=653&osCsid=m1ijcst5hvufkij9qpggjgttn6 •
• ISBN: 978-3-88309-603-2 •

• Inhaltsverzeichnis | Table des Matières | Table of Contents •

Abbreviations - p. 6
Introduction - p. 7
Latin Stenography | Critical Glossary | Bibliography - p. 15
Bibliography:
• Boethii Opera omnia - p. 16
• Boethii Prosopographia - p. 21
• Boethii Hagiographia - p. 28
Prologue: Boethius. Powerful Bridge between Antiquity
and the Middle Ages - p. 41
Chapter 1: Boethius and Alcuin of York - p. 49
Chapter 2: Boethius and Amalarius - p. 61
Chapter 3: Boethius and Charles II “the Bald” - p. 71
Chapter 4: Boethius and Iohannes Scottus Eriugena - p. 79
Chapter 5: Boethius and the Cognitive Process - p. 91
Chapter 6: Boethius and Aurelianus Reomensis - p. 113
Chapter 7: Boethius and Hucbaldus Elnonensis - p. 119
Chapter 8: Boethii Consolatio Philosophiae - p. 137
Chapter 9: Boethius and Hrotsvitha Gandersheimensis - p. 157
Chapter 10:
(A) Boethius and Gerbertus Aureliacensis - p. 167
(B) Boethius and Abbo Floriacensis - p. 171
(C) Boethius and Notker Labeo seu Teutonicus - p. 172
Chapter 11: Boethius and Fulbertus Carnotensis - p. 175
Chapter 12: Boethius and Theodoricus Carnotensis - p. 179
Epilogue: The Legacy of Boethius - p. 187
Bibliography: Boethius and the Liberal Arts - p. 195
Index (Manuscripts) - p. 219
Index (General) - p. 226
Index (Greek) - p. 232
Index (Descriptiones) - p. 234
Dedication - p. 235
Acknowledgements - p. 237
Supplementary Bibliography (15-III-2016): 238
Notitia brevis | Abstracts (15-III-2016):                    239-244

• Illo Humphrey | PhD-HDR • Explicit  •

• Colloquia Aquitana II - 2006 | Direction: Illo Humphrey, PhD-HDR •

• Boèce ([Boethius] Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524) :
l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement •

• Boethius (Rome, ca. 480 – Pavia, ca. 524) : the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach • Paris (Éditions Le Manuscrit), 2009 | 2 Volumes •

• Volume I : 535 pages), Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-304-00564-6 :
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03059230 •
• Volume II : 520 pages | Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-304-00566-0 :
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03059149 •

• IH | ih | PhD-HDR | Explicit •

• Colloquia Aquitana II - 2006 | Direction: Illo Humphrey, PhD-HDR •

• Boèce ([Boethius] Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524) :
l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement •

• Boethius (Rome, ca. 480 – Pavia, ca. 524) : the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach • Paris (Éditions Le Manuscrit), 2009 | 2 Volumes •

• Volume I : 535 pages), Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-304-00564-6 :
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03059230 •
• Volume II : 520 pages | Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-304-00566-0 :
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03059149 •

• IH | ih | PhD-HDR | Explicit •

Quest'articolo intende studiare il ruolo e il significato del mito di Orfeo nelle Consolazione di Filosofia di Boezio (III m. 12). Partendo dalla constatazione che l'opera del filosofo romano è costruita ad arte e segue un piano determinato, l'autore desidera mostrare che tanto la posizione del poema nella Consolazione, quanto la scelta del metro gliconico, come pure i rapporti tra il poema e le altre parti dell'opera, sono strettamente connessi e perseguono lo stesso obiettivo. Attraverso l'analisi filologica del testo e l'individuazione delle principali fonti letterarie e filosofiche si può recepire l'importanza del poema nella complessità dell'opera. In breve, si può dire che la fabula di Orfeo illustra il pericolo incontrato da chi cerca di elevarsi fino al sommo Bene, pericolo che consiste nell' interrompere, anche solo per un attimo, l'ascensione, per rivolgersi a guardare con rimpianto le realtà inferiori che sono sul punto d'essere abbandonate. Questa via conduce ad uno sacco e non deve essere seguita. Il poema, introdotto alla fine del terzo libro, invita il prigioniero, che può essere identificato tanto con Boezio quanto con il lettore dell'opera, a riflettere sul cammino già percorso, per trarne lezioni che lo aiutino ad affrontare il proprio futuro.

Si prende in esame il componimento poetico con cui si chiude il terzo libro della Consolatio (riprodotto, con traduzione francese a fronte, in appendice a pp. 65-66) per sostenere che sia la scelta del metro che la collocazione della fabula nell’opera boeziana mirano a porre in forte evidenza il pericolo corso da chi, nell’ascensione al sommo Bene, si volga a guardare con rimpianto il cammino già fatto. Bibliografia boeziana a pp. 67-72.

This article discusses a full-page schematic diagram contained in a twelfth-century manuscript of Boethius’ De institutione arithmetica and De institutione musica from Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury (Cambridge University Library MS Ii.3.12), which has not yet been the subject of any significant musicological study despite its remarkable scope and comprehensiveness. This diagrammatic tree, or arbor, maps the precepts of the first book of De institutione arithmetica into a unified whole, depicting the ways music and arithmetic are interrelated as sub-branches of the quadrivium. I suggest that this schematic diagram served not only as a conceptual and interpretative device for the scribe working through Boethius’ complex theoretical material, but also as a mnemonic guide to assist the medieval pedagogue wishing to instruct students in the mathematics of musica speculativa. The diagram constitutes a fully developed theoretical exercise in its own right, while also demonstrating the roles Boethian philosophy and mathematics played in twelfth- century musical scholarship.

dir. Laetitia Ciccolini, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet & Vincent Zarini
L’œuvre de Pierre Courcelle : héritage et débats
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