#boethius

- unstable and unreliable narrator

- a tyrant who dies

- the war

- a little guy (tm) who is lore essential

- the mourner, extra points if they are gay

- the dragon who is very lore relevant

- the depressed person

And if you are natlan you have all these in the form of Och kan

Some extra essentials

- The who decided to erase themselves from the narrative or the timeline

- face stealer and person whose face is stolen

as the images unwind, like the circles that you find, in the windmills of your mind.

Watch my full animation here!

Boethius, The Poems from On the Consolation of Philosophy, Translated from Latin by Peter Glassgold, Foreword by Charles Bernstein, World Poetry Books, New York, NY, 2024

Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend. We meet on Zoom at 12pm Noon Eastern Time.

On November 13, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 101, the oldest codex in Philadelphia! It includes a translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione by Boethius, and other texts. It was written in France ca. 850 and ca. 1000. (We introduced this manuscript in 2023, but it's a favorite so we reserve the right to return to it when we wish.)

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