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

...that if [there] is a spondee or a dactyl, that [it] is composed of an anapaest. To have force [the] sign Boethius; if .b. only in the places of the rhythm, [it] first reads in red. That if the man [of] the sky [with] the fields thundering. That if [the] discordant rhythm is not .n.
But yet the most joined archilochian dactylic carries [the] mind, the acatalectic, which in [the] reality [it] could [be] in this way. ... [The] closing of the light of Phoebus. But if the [most] joined archilochian carries the bucolic limit, which [by the] third choriamb, [the] bucolic limit and conversely; through the dactyl and through the before [mentioned] it makes of the oration what [at] Boethius are as [in] the verses of Iulinus. And these which... whatever living things of the earth move through...
[The] Emonome [term] third, in the [term] third [it] carries. With Bacchus, that the body with...
...if the briar... in all; [the] mind to be...
These are as the limits, [they] are the limits in the meter... in the third choriamb and of the rhythm the anapaestic rhythm through the double, through the osti... [they] compute through the triple...

[The] visions of John the rhythm begin here...

Of this; this is [the] friend [and] the master of the most noble [things]... who... [he] reads; [the] sacred exercise... with the lance. Where the lightning in the mind [the] sacred exercise [which]... [of the] many books [in] the mind, that [which] he brought... [he] carries... of Porphyry; [the] categories entirely; the reading... [the] philosophy entirely... what O[edipus?]... two volumes. Which [the] dissoluble [books] he called. Where the syllogism [in the] mind [the] one [he] resolved. And [he] put [in] the mind... that [which] he brought... [they] write...
Book I. [I] have known [that] the rest... [the] gate;...
...the public [career]... [the] most noble...
...[the] public... wanted to call. ... [the] Boethius... [he] wrote; where [the] Heli [books]... [he] composed [of] the stability of God and the mutability [of the] world...
Here begins the book [of] the Consolations [of] Philosophy.
[He] brought. That nothing... by the comprehension [of] the mind... [he] increased. ... [the] one [who]... [in] the judgment... [the] impregnable...