Medievalists.net » Glasgow http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 12th-century copy of Consolation of Philosophy was written in Scotland, scholar finds http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/12th-century-copy-of-consolation-of-philosophy-was-written-in-scotland-scholar-finds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/12th-century-copy-of-consolation-of-philosophy-was-written-in-scotland-scholar-finds/#comments Thu, 07 May 2015 12:19:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58115 A twelfth-century copy of the ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ by Boethius, has been revealed to have been been written in Scotland, making it the oldest surviving non-biblical manuscript from that country.

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