Editing Saint Boniface (section)

===Grammar and poetry===
Early in his career, before he left for the continent, Boniface wrote the {{lang|la|[[Ars Bonifacii]]}}, a grammatical treatise presumably for his students in Nursling. [[Helmut Gneuss]] reports that one manuscript copy of the treatise originates from (the south of) England, mid-eighth century; it is now held in [[Marburg]], in the [[Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg|Hessisches Staatsarchiv]].<ref>Gneuss 130, item 849.</ref> He also wrote a treatise on verse, the {{lang|la|Caesurae uersuum}}, and a collection of twenty acrostic [[riddle]]s, the {{lang|la|Enigmata}}, influenced greatly by [[Aldhelm]] and containing many references to works of [[Vergil]] (the ''[[Aeneid]]'', the ''[[Georgics]]'', and the ''[[Eclogues]]'').<ref>Lapidge 38.</ref> The riddles fall into two sequences of ten poems. The first, {{lang|la|De virtutibus}} ('on the virtues'), comprises: 1. {{lang|la|de ueritate}}/truth; 2. {{lang|la|de fide catholica}}/the Catholic faith; 3. {{lang|la|de spe}}/hope; 4. {{lang|la|de misericordia}}/compassion; 5. {{lang|la|de caritate}}/love; 6. {{lang|la|de iustitia}}/justice; 7. {{lang|la|de patientia}}/patience; 8. {{lang|la|de pace uera, cristiana}}/true, Christian peace; 9. {{lang|la|de humilitate cristiania}}/Christian humility; 10. {{lang|la|de uirginitate}}/virginity. The second sequence, {{lang|la|De vitiis}} ('on the vices'), comprises: 1. {{lang|la|de neglegentia}}/carelessness; 2. {{lang|la|de iracundia}}/hot temper; 3. {{lang|la|de cupiditate}}/greed; 4. {{lang|la|de superbia}}/pride; 5. {{lang|la|de crapula}}/intemperance; 6. {{lang|la|de ebrietate}}/drunkenness; 7. {{lang|la|de luxoria}}/fornication; 8. {{lang|la|de inuidia}}/envy; 9. {{lang|la|de ignorantia}}/ignorance; 10. {{lang|la|de uana gloria}}/vainglory.<ref>'Aenigmata Bonifatii', ed. by Fr. Glorie, trans. by Karl J. Minst, in ''Tatuini omnia opera, Variae collectiones aenigmatum merovingicae aetatis, Anonymus de dubiis nominibus'', Corpus christianorum: series latina, 133-133a, 2 vols (Turnholt: Brepols, 1968), [https://archive.org/details/corpuschristiano0133unse I] 273-343.</ref>

Three octosyllabic poems written in clearly Aldhelmian fashion (according to [[Andy Orchard]]) are preserved in his correspondence, all composed before he left for the continent.<ref>Orchard 62–63.</ref>