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Commentaries on the Ars Vetus, by Walter Burley, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 135// ff. 3r-87v; 89r-98v; 116r-118v
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ff. ff. 3r-87v; 89r-98v; 116r-118v of MS 135 appear to be a version of a set of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's logic, by the 14th-century logician Walter Burley. Burley produced many commentaries, and multiple versions of his commentaries and other works, and the short commentaries found in MS 135, Isagoge, Predicamenta, Liber sex principiorum, Perihermeneias are from a collection produced in the later part of Burley's career, in a work titled ...
Dates:
15th century
De anatomia vivorum, pseudo-Galen, late 13th century
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Identifier: MS 166/ff. 253v-266r
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The final text contained in MS 166 is De anatomia vivorum, a text that appears in medieval collections of Galenic texts, although it is not truly a work of that ancient Greek physcian and scholar. Due to some of the sources used within the treatise (Latin translations from Avicenna, Gerard of Cremona, and Razes), the text has been dated to roughly 1225. It also seems to have been composed in perhaps Paris or West Germany. It is a very early example of a...
Dates:
late 13th century
Oeconomica by Pseudo-Aristotle, translated by Leonardo Aretino, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 119/ff. 47v-56v
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This section contains the Oeconomica (Economics) by Pseudo-Aristotle. This version has been translated by Italian humanist and historian Leonardo Aretino (commonly known as Leonardo Bruni), seemingly as part of his correspondence with Cosimo de' Medici.In this manuscript, it is titled Epistola Leonardi Aretini ad Cosmam medicum super principium economicorum Aristotelis feliciter...
Dates:
15th century
Philosophy lecture notes by Magnus Makculloch, 1477
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Identifier: MS 205/ff. 1r-200r
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The manuscript proper contains lecture notes written in 1477 in Louven by Magnus Makculloch. These notes are in Latin and are about on lectures about philosophy and logic by Petrus de Mera, Andrea de Alchmaria, and Theodricus Meyssach. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1r-58v) contains extracts from the six books of Aristotle’s Organon, as well as Porphyry’s introduction to it. The second part of the manuscript (ff. 59r-200r) contains commentaries on the...
Dates:
1477
Somnium de tota philosophici lapidis perfectione by Pseudo-Aristotle with commentary, 1478
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Identifier: MS 131/f. 129r
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During the Middle Ages, several Latin works which show no connections with his surviving Greek writings have been attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384/3 BC - 322 BC), one of the greatest intellectual authorities of the period. This manuscript is the only witness of this short text which concerns a dream about the perfection of the philosophers' stone.It begins on f. 129r and it is introduced by the words Incipit somnium preclarissimi...
Dates:
1478