Una miscellanea di ispirazione boeziana nell'Abbazia di Saint-Amand. Il ms. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale, 298

This essay aims to illustrate the case of a miscellaneous manuscript written at Saint-Amand abbey in the 11th century, whose collected texts, apparently heterogeneous, show on closer observation affinities of themes and inspiration. The hypothesis that is proposed is that the collection can be traced back -for many reasons - to a unique and well-defined personality, that of Folcuinus, a monk and prior of the same abbey, author of a poem of undoubted Boethian inspiration, in the form of a dialogue between a discipulus and a magistra or musa: Thalia