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The Text of the Categoriae: The Latin Tradition1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

L. Minio-Paluello
L. Minio-Paluello
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Oriel College
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The Latin versions of Aristotle's Categoriae have never received much attention from the editors of the Greek text. J. Th. Buhle (Arist. Op. Omn. i, Bipont. 1791) and Th. Waitz (Arist. Organ, i, Lpz., 1844) availed themselves of Latin texts, but in a very unsatisfactory way; and since them the Latin field has remained unexplored throughout the last hundred years, in which both Hellenists and Orientalists have done much to increase our knowledge of the textual tradition of the Categ. It is the purpose of these pages to give a summary account of the Latin tradition and to contribute to a revision of the Greek text by a collation of Boethius' recently discovered translation with the best printed Greek and Oriental sources.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 3-4 , July 1945 , pp. 63 - 74
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1945

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page 67 note 4 On the possible survival of Albinus' geometrical work down to the 10th cent. cf. Tannery, P. and Clerval, A., ‘Une correspond. d'écolâtres du XIe siècle’, Par. 1901 (Not. et Extr. XXXVI. ii. 487–543, espec. 531)Google Scholar; Manitius, M., Gesch. d. lat. Liter. d. Mittelalt. ii, Munich, 1923, 778, n. 2, 780–1Google Scholar; and id. in Philol. Wochenscher. lii [1932], 1100Google Scholar. For the Albini in the 4th cent. cf. Seeck, O., op. cit., clxxiv–clxxxiiiGoogle Scholar.

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page 71 note 1 Early editions of the Latin Organon without commentary are anonymous as regards the translator; e.g. those of Augsburg, 1479, Venice, 1481, and Paris, c. 1484 (nos. 2335, 2391, and 2392 in the Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendr.). The first edition of Boethis' commentary with this version as lemmata is that of Naples, c. 1475 (no. 2390 in the Gesamtkat.).

page 71 note 2 Buhle, J. Th., op. cit., I. xv, 163, 164, 205Google Scholar, and passim in the critical notes at pp. 526–48; and II (Bipont. 1792), v, vi. Waitz, Th., op. cit., xix, xxivGoogle Scholar, and passim in the notes, 266–322.

page 71 note 3 Op. cit. II. vi. It is not clear from where he took this information, as no mention of any Latin translation is to be found in the Aldine edition.

page 71 note 4 The edition of 1481 was published by Philippus Venetus under the title of Textus Logicales. The MS. used by Buhle and by Waitz was again described by F. Jacobs in the section devoted to the Scriptores Graeci et Lat. Manuscr. in his andUkert's, F. A.Beitr. z. ält. Liter. d. herzogl. öffentl. Bibl. zu Gotha, i0, Lps. 1835, 207Google Scholar, and by the editors of Arist. Lat. i. 679–80.

page 72 note 1 Cf. K. Kalbfleisch's preface to his edition of Simplicius' commentary, viii, ix, and xvii; and Arist. Lat. i. 98–9 and 205, where the beginning and end of this translation of both commentary and text are printed from MS. Paris, B.N. Lat. 14714.

page 73 note 1 It is hoped that it will soon be possible to publish a complete collation of Boethius' translation with the Greek text.