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

...may it be allowed to look at the verses; when the force [of them] is the same. This rubric is frequent. Because if it also emerges in the middle with a spondee...
ninth

in the ninth Trimeter ninth anapaestic my
[in] a spondee. If it has placed an anapaest in the place of a spondee and in the individual verses likewise. [He] has placed [it] if this is [the case] and in the others likewise. Every genus of these; in meters; joined together from the beginning. For each one cast out the anapaestic [foot] from the part [of the] entirely acatalectic verse. Again, let [one] look at the verse; because in one place only [it is] so. He has for this the pleasure of all even the archilochian. And again [he] has placed [it] in the individual [verses]. This rubric if where he cast out the anapaestic [foot] entirely or acatalectically. Which variety [it] contains even in this work [of] Iulinus; so let it be allowed...
...the sword, [may it be] milder; emit the mouth of the sight; ignorance leads away. The first
Its first

most joined; this is seen also according to all places; responding to other dactyls. He wished to perceive this in dactyls. In the spondees, again, the verse. The verse contains all of this. O [God], who because of this [is] born to govern the world. The second most joined
Its second

dactyls from the left hand also in the part [of the] meter. Acatalectic. Again it carries; if where he cast out the anapaestic [foot]. Of which a little
in the ninth

before [he] spoke. Such humanity in one verse alone; from the place.
III. Its third.

And in which [places]. But if you wish for me [to consider] more; [the] crimes of the pole of Archilochus. The third most joined; in this also with the hand. In the part [of the] omniferous acatalectic. Indeed [it] separates us from places in the even [positions]; and [with] harmful arms.
[The] fourth dactyls. Even; where since there is a dactyl in the spondees
this rubric is second

[an] anapaest is perceived. If for a spondee [it] perceives an anapaest. In this; [by] the variety [of the] verse [it] pertains also in this way.
Its fourth

If you wish to look fully at the rest from the summit of the pole; the fourth most joined; if [it] be alleviated. This rubric [concerns the] elegiac. If [it] be indeed in this work [of] Iulinus. As it helps to turn the choruses
Its fifth.

motions; and [those] prepared to stir with the hand. The fifth most joined; and mixed with various things; thus it is said; because [it] must especially [be called] by the name of Christ. But dactyls for this whole [work]. Because for a dactyl again in the spondee [it] perceives an anapaest. To the dactylic anapaestic also in the following...