Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (12th c., Lombard script)

...spondee. As in the variety of that which in the same way is predicated of the primary syllables of the meter; [it] arrives... in the eighth, the dactylic, which is called a trochee, a spondee, a dactyl, and two trochees. These are [what] he holds... [for] the divine sons; in the eighth [he]... [it is] better to prefer... When Phoebus with his pole [the sky]... he does not see the light scattered. The eleventh, the archilochian iambic, which is called a dimeter catalectic. To which he... [it] has reached...
if not or of the ending
which a little before... in such variety it presents in the same way... where it wishes... [it is] better to place... The twelfth, the anapaestic panthemilacum, which is called a dimeter brachycatalectic. As this kind... happy he who was able... where it wishes to be... The thirteenth, the dactylic, which is called... [he] has placed the grace in such a way. New, how many [he] has put down... [he] wishes the spirit; which in the dimeter adonic it terminates in such a way. Thus he donates. The fourteenth, the archilochian iambic
if not if within
[is] called a dimeter acatalectic. These... where he has made the archilochian iambic... called a dimeter acatalectic. In which variety [it] is in the same way... which alone with the mind... [it] precedes... which the glory conceals. The fifteenth, the phalaeceum, [is] called a triple dactylic... which in the same way it presents in the place. Therefore, those things which... where the mind wishes to act...
The sixteenth, the archilochian iambic, [is] called as it is [a] minor [meter], yet a dimeter acatalectic. To which, mixed, which the elegiac [meter]... in such a way. If [it] puts [forth] the... [it] presents [it] in such variety in the same way... which... from the divine...
if not
which... [it] thinks... The seventeenth
I. IIII.
I. IIII.
spondaic
[it] has placed where [he] has made the archilochian dactylic dimeter catalectic. To which variety [it] presents in the same way... which... [it] joins in...
[the] pebbles... in the spondee, which in the dactyl in even
the eighteenth meters
places [he] puts the trochee. The eighteenth, the alcmanic dactylic, is called a dimeter... catalectic...