The ''Boecis'' (original name: ''Lo poema de Boecis'', , ; "The poem of
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius (; Latin: ''Boetius''; 480 – 524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, ''magister officiorum'', historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the tra ...
") is an anonymous fragment written around the year 1000
CE in the
Limousin dialect
Limousin (French name, ; oc, lemosin, ) is a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the three departments of Limousin, parts of Charente and the Dordogne in the southwest of France.
The first Occitan documents are in an early form of this ...
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Old Occitan
Old Occitan ( oc, occitan ancian, label= Modern Occitan, ca, occità antic), also called Old Provençal, was the earliest form of the Occitano-Romance languages, as attested in writings dating from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Old ...
, currently spoken only in southern
France. Of the possibly hundreds or thousands of original lines, only 257 are now known.
[François Juste Marie Raynouard, ''Choix des poésies originales des troubadours, Tome II'', 1817, p. cxxvij: "Il paraît que ce poëme était d'une longueur considérable; avant de décrire le manuscrit unique qui en a conservé un fragment de deux cent cinquante-sept vers .. (It seems that this poem was of considerable length; before I describe the unique manuscript that kept only a fragment 257 lines ..]
This poem was inspired by the work ''
De consolatione philosophiae
''On the Consolation of Philosophy'' ('' la, De consolatione philosophiae'')'','' often titled as ''The Consolation of Philosophy'' or simply the ''Consolation,'' is a philosophical work by the Roman statesman Boethius. Written in 523 while he ...
'' of the Latin poet, philosopher and politician
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius (; Latin: ''Boetius''; 480 – 524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, ''magister officiorum'', historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the tra ...
(~480-524).
Fragments
Laisse A laisse is a type of stanza, of varying length, found in medieval French literature, specifically medieval French epic poetry (the ''chanson de geste''), such as ''The Song of Roland''. In early works, each laisse was made up of (mono) assonanced ...
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Notes
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Further reading
*Cropp, G.M. "The Occitan ''Boecis'', the Medieval French Tradition of the ''Consolatio Philosophiae'' and ''Philosophy's Gown''." In ''Études de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts'', ed. D. Billy and A. Buckley. Turnhout, 2005. pp. 255–66.
*Lavaud, R. and G. Machicot (eds.). ''Boecis, Poème sur Boèce (fragment)''. Toulouse, 1950.
*Schwarze, C. (ed.). ''Der altprovenzalische Boeci''. Forschungen zur romanischen Philologie 12. Münster, 1963.
External links
Full text in Old OccitanUniversité de la SorbonneCRDP Montpelhièr
Medieval poetry
Occitan literature