Boethius a Christian Cabalist?

Boethius, Arithmetica. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1521. Fol.

While Boethius (d. 525) himself attached no mystical significance to the so-called ’perfect numbers’, later commentators did and saw in him a Christian Cabalist. This proposition was first advanced by Gerard Roussel (Rufinus) in this edition. The French scholar Guillaume Postel used the present edition and incorporated this view in his own work on the Cabala: this copy has his annotations and his name on the title page.