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A Link between Two Manuscripts of Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Pamela M. Huby
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

Extract

The value and date of Vaticanus graecus 1339 (Bekker's P), which contains many of the works of Aristotle, have been much disputed. Here I want only to argue that at the beginning of the De Partibus Animalium, the first work it contains, it is closely related to Parisinus graecus 1853 (Bekker's E), the great tenth-century manuscript which is one of our major authorities for many of Aristotle's writings.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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References

page 279 note 1 For a summary see Torraca's, L. edition of LePartidegli Animali (Padova, 1961), p. xi.Google Scholar

page 279 note 2 Dain, A., Les Manuscrits (Paris, 1949), 120–4, has shown that some very superior manuscripts—the so-called prototypes—resemble each other closely. Divisions between quaternions come at the same place in the text, and they may have the same pagination and even lineation.Google Scholar

page 279 note 3 S is Laurenlianus LXXI-i (XIII cent.), U Vaticanus graecus 260 (XI), Σ Parisinur graecus 1863 (XIV), II Parisinus graecus. 1864 (XV).

page 280 note 1 Δ is Paris, suppl. gr. 333 (XV cent.).

page 280 note 2 Z is Oxoniensis Collegii Corporis Christi 108 (X cent. ?).

page 280 note 3 And the existing much later text in E is almost certainly not a copy of the original.

page 281 note 1 See Ross's edition of the De Anima, Appendix II.