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Boetius, Lib. I (25  October  1801) Chaucer, GeoffreyBoethius. composed 1377-1381
first published by Caxton, probably 1479.
OR
Boethii Deidonani, HectorScotorum historiae: a primagentis origine, cum aliarum et rerum et gentium illustratione non vulgari prae missa epistola nucupatoria [sic] tabellisque amplissimus, et non poenitenda Isagoge quae ab buus tergo explicabuntur dissusius. 1526
WG cites the following in his biography of Chaucer:
Prologue to the translation of Boethius, by John de Meun, apud Fauchet, Liv. II (1:220).
Hector Boethius, Lib. XV, ad ann. (1:421).
WG's sale catalog lists:
Boetii Consolationis Philosophiae lib. V. notis var. Lugd. Bat. 1671—Boetius, newly translated by J. T. 1609; 2 vol. (item 65).

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