The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I:
The Queen’s Translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae
(Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12 / 289)

Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. (Troy University) and Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University) Introduction by Quan Manh Ha (Texas Tech University)
2009 | 244 + xii pp. | 1 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-414-0 | MRTS 366
$63 | £45

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This book comprises an extensive Introduction that makes particular note of the Elizabeth’s educational preparation for translating the Latin text and the circumstances under which the translation was made, an edition of the translation that distinguishes first-draft inscriptions in which the queen was directly involved and second-draft inscriptions that reveal no supervisory attention by Her Majesty, extensive notes that allow readers to understand the relationship between the entries in Public Record Office Manuscript SP 12/289 and the order in which the entries are presented in the edition, and a glossary of problematic words appearing in the translation.