lat 524 A.D. I,5pItaque non tam me loci huius quam tua facies movet nec bibliothecae potius comptos ebore ac vitro parietes quam tuae mentis sedem requiro, in qua non libros sed id quod libris pretium facit, librorum quondam meorum sententias, collocavi.
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.26. AD SUPERIORA RESOPNDETUR.
Itaque non tam mouet me facies huius loci . quam tua. Nû nemísselîchêt mír nîeht sô hárto dísses chárchares ána-síht . sô mír dîn ána-síune tûot. Nec requiro potius parietes bibliothecȩ . comptos ebore ac uitro . quam sedem tuȩ mentis. Nóh íh neórderôn dîe gezîerten uuéndo dînero bûohchámero . mít hélfent-péine .únde mít cláse . sô gérno íh dáz ána-sídele fórderôn dînes mûotes. In qua non libros . sed id quod precium facit libris . quondam collocaui sententias librorum meorum. Târ ih ínne íu betéta . dáz án dien bûochen stât . dero bûocho tíuri . náls sélben diu bûoh.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300Si que la face de ce lieu ne me esmeut pas tant comme la teue face ne je ne requier pas mieux les paraiz de t’aumaire ou de ta chambre aournees de yvoire et de voirre que je faiz le siege de ta pensee en la quele je mis jadis non mie livres, mes ce qui fait les livres precieus, c’est a savoir les sentences de mes livres.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.So that I sey, that the face of this place ne moveth me nat so mochel as thyne owne face. Ne I axe nat rather the walles of thy librarie, aparayled and wrought with yvory and with glas, than after the sete of thy thought. In whiche I putte nat whylom bokes, but I putte that that maketh bokes worthy of prys or precious, that is to seyn, the sentence of my bokes.
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D.wherefore thy Looke, not this place, so much moouith me, nor doo I desyre my shops walles adornid with yuory or glasse, rather than the seate of the mynde, In which I placed not bookes, but that that giues them price, sentences of myne owne woorkes.
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Title
Book I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
