Berlin, 1834, mentions a St, Gallen MS. of the 10th and 11th century,
containing an old High-German translation of Boethius Cons. Philos.,
and gives a specimen of this translation. The following extract is in-
teresting, from the additions which the monk makes to the Latin text of
Boethius,* showing the astronomical knowledge of his time.
Boethius.
CJuir uuizen. daz tia erda daz uuazer umbe gat. undo der f ierdo teil nahor 6benan
erbarot 1st. an demo sizzent tie mennisken. Ter himel l&ret unsih. tiz iz ter fierdo
teil ist AUe die astronomiam chunnen. diebechennent tiz sequinoctialis zona den
himel rehto in zuei teilet. unde fone iro ze dien uzerosten polis iouueder halb e*ben
filo ist ih meino ze demo septentrionali. unde ze demo australi. So ist tiu erda
sinuuelbiu. unde ist uns unchunt. ube si. undenan erbarot si. 6benan dar si erbarot
ist. tar sizzent tie liute ab aethiopico oceano. usque ad scithicum ocean um. Tie
ferrost sizzent ad austrum. die sizzent in aethiopicis insulis. tien ist tiu sunna 6be
h6ubete. so si gat uzer ariete in uerno tempore, unde so si beginnet kan in libram
in autumno. — Graffs Sprachschatz, pref, p. xxxvi.
LITERAL ENGLISH.
