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Article: Meter 20: context bereft.(Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae)
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When Fred C. Robinson ("Literature" 11) issued his classic reminder that manuscript context can contribute much to the understanding of OE texts, his analysis brought the physical object and its characteristics into the realm of wider interpretation by showing how meaning and material state are interrelated. (1) More recently, Kevin S. Kiernan has discussed one of the more egregious violations of manuscript context, perhaps more specifically called manuscript integrity, in his consideration of British Library, MS. Cotton Otho A. vi, the fire-damaged (1731) translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae attributed to Alfred the Great. Given the importance of De ...
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