Sedgefield Walter John (ed.) King Alfred’s Old English Version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899. — 328 p.The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880 and 950. Boethius's work is prosimetrical, alternating between prose and verse, and one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Old English translation renders the poems as Old English alliterative verse: these verse translations are known as the Metres of Boethius.