Notker III, Labeo or Notker Teutonicus translated a number of Latin school texts by Boethius into Late Old German, including the Consolatio Philosophiae (CPh), and wrote explanatory commentaries on them, mostly in his mother-tongue. He used numerous sources for his translation and exegesis. This parallel volume 2A to the volumes of text 2(published in our series Altdeutsche Textbibliothek) provides the fruits of many years of research into the sources in the form of a commentary (Notker latinus) on Notkera (TM)s version of the CPh. It is prefaced by a detailed index of abbreviations, siglia and literature, followed by a comprehensive introduction presenting both the sources themselves and the principles underlying the commentary.

Notker III, Labeo or Notker Teutonicus, teacher in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gallen (a 1022), translated a number of Latin school texts by Boethius into Late Old German, including the Consolatio Philosophiae (CPh), and wrote explanatory commentaries on them, mostly in his mother-tongue. He used numerous and various sources for his translation and exegesis. The first of the parallel volumes 1A, 2A and 3A to the volumes of text 1, 2 and 3 (published in our series Altdeutsche Textbibliothek) provides the fruits of many years of research into the sources in the form of a commentary (Notker latinus) on Notker's version of the CPh. It is prefaced by a detailed index of abbreviations, siglia and literature followed by a comprehensive introduction presenting both the sources themselves and the principles underlying the commentary.

Notker III, Labeo or Notker Teutonicus translated a number of Latin school texts by Boethius into Late Old German, including the Consolatio Philosophiae (CPh), and wrote explanatory commentaries on them, mostly in his mother-tongue. He used numerous sources for his translation and exegesis. The first of the parallel volumes 1A, 2A and 3A to the volumes of text 1, 2 and 3 (published in our series Altdeutsche Textbibliothek) provides the fruits of many years of research into the sources in the form of a commentary (Notker latinus) on Notkera (TM)s version of the CPh. It is prefaced by a list of abbreviations and manuscript sigla as well as a bibliography, followed by a comprehensive introduction presenting both the sources themselves and the principles underlying the commentary.

This ANotker latinusA or commentary volume for the ten shorter works comprises not only the primary sources but also parallel passages in other texts and interactions with Notker's writings in general. The editors are confident that this compilation establishes further and in more detail Notker's authorship of the St. Gall Tractate, ADe dialecticaA, and ADistributioA, which they had added to the canon, now that in a recent article, ADie lateinischen Schriften Notkers des Deutschen. Altes und NeuesA (PBB 124, 2002, p. 411-441), the authenticity of these three texts in general could be demonstrated. Also treated in this collection are ADe arte rhetoricaA, ADe partibus logicaeA, ADe syllogismisA, ADe definitioneA, AComputusA, ADe musicaA, and Notker's Latin letter to Bishop Hugo of Sitten.