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ARISTOTLE IN MANUSCRIPT. ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. Seventeenth-century manuscript of Disputationes on Aristotle, including on logic (unidentified), On Interpretation, the Prior and Posterior Analytics, the Isagogue of Porphyry, Categories, Physics, On the Heavens and the Earth, On Generation and Corruption, On Weather, On the Soul, and Metaphysics,
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ARISTOTLE IN MANUSCRIPT.
ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. Seventeenth-century manuscript of Disputationes on Aristotle, including on logic (unidentified), On Interpretation, the Prior and Posterior Analytics, the Isagogue of Porphyry, Categories, Physics, On the Heavens and the Earth, On Generation and Corruption, On Weather, On the Soul, and Metaphysics, 408 leaves, 4to, 180 x 145 mm, ink on paper, incomplete (lacks at least three 3 leaves at the beginning, with loss of text), one full page diagram of the Ptolemaic universe, and two smaller celestial diagrams, in De caelo et mundo treatise, and several smaller diagrams throughout, collation irregular (quired mainly in 8s, a few blank leaves excised at the end of sections), written in several hands in tiny cursive script, up to 47 long lines per page (some bleed-through of ink but text legible), original binding of brown leather over pasteboards, remains of two leather ties (some worming to pastedowns and last leaf of text).
The works of Aristotle remained fundamental to the scholastic analysis of theological topics from the Middle Ages into the seventeenth century and later. One of the genres in which the relationship between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian belief and scholarship was discussed was the disputation (disputatio), in which a proposition was stated, questions (quaestiones) proposed, and arguments supplied, together with citations of authorities, leading to a resolution of opposing opinions. The present manuscript offers a copious example of this method. The treatises it analyzes include one on logic (acephalous and therefore not identified), On Interpretation, the Prior and Posterior Analytics, the Isagogue of Porphyry, Categories, Physics, On the Heavens and the Earth, On Generation and Corruption, On Weather, On the Soul, and Metaphysics. The first work is signed with the colophon "Finis Gorcae ad Sanctam Crucem ultima die Aprilis in Octava Sancti Adalberti Regni Poloniae Patroni. Amen. Sub patre fratre Clemente Soleslario [?]" and several others conclude with dates between 1653 and 1655, and with the reference to patre Clemente.
The works of Aristotle remained fundamental to the scholastic analysis of theological topics from the Middle Ages into the seventeenth century and later. One of the genres in which the relationship between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian belief and scholarship was discussed was the disputation (disputatio), in which a proposition was stated, questions (quaestiones) proposed, and arguments supplied, together with citations of authorities, leading to a resolution of opposing opinions. The present manuscript offers a copious example of this method. The treatises it analyzes include one on logic (acephalous and therefore not identified), On Interpretation, the Prior and Posterior Analytics, the Isagogue of Porphyry, Categories, Physics, On the Heavens and the Earth, On Generation and Corruption, On Weather, On the Soul, and Metaphysics. The first work is signed with the colophon "Finis Gorcae ad Sanctam Crucem ultima die Aprilis in Octava Sancti Adalberti Regni Poloniae Patroni. Amen. Sub patre fratre Clemente Soleslario [?]" and several others conclude with dates between 1653 and 1655, and with the reference to patre Clemente.