Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 70: 1

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  • Part A contains: (ff. 1r-5v) Topica / Cicero. Incomplete. - (ff. 5v-9r) De interpretatione / Aristotle. - (f. 9r-v) De locis dialecticis. Excerpt. - (ff. 9v-10r) Introduction to Boethius' Commentarius in Ciceronis Topica. - (ff. 10r-44r) Commentarius in Ciceronis Topica / Boethius. -(ff. 44r-50v) Categoriae / Aristotle. - (f. 50v) Commentarius in Aristotelis De interpretatione / Boethius. Incomplete. - (f. 51r) Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis / Macrobius. Excerpts. - (ff. 51r-66v) De inventione / Cicero. Incomplete. With a short excerpt from Saturnalia / Macrobius (4.2-4.6).
    Part B contains: (ff. 67r-70r) Glosses on the bible. - (ff. 70r-71v) Letter to Charlemagne / Alcuin of York. - (f. 71v) Versus / Alcuin of York (?). - (ff. 71v-73v) Epistulae morales / Seneca. Excerpt.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    9th century
    10th century

    Titre(s) :
    Composite manuscript, two parts (Latin)
    Topica
    De interpretatione
    Peri hermeneias
    Periermenias
    De locis dialecticis
    Commentarius in Ciceronis Topica
    Categoriae decem
    Paraphrasis Themistiana
    Commentarius in Aristotelis Periermenias
    Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
    De inventione
    Rhetorica
    Saturnalia
    Glossae variae
    Epistula ad Carolum Magnum
    Versus
    Epistula morales ad Lucilium
    Epistola morales ad Lucilium
    A. (ff. 1-66) Commentary on Cicero's Topica / Boethius, and other text(s). - B. (ff. 67-73) Glosses on the bible, and other text(s), VLF 70: 1

    Langue(s) des textes : latin

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  • VLF 70 divided in three different parts in 1870.
  • Part A originally belongs to the same codex as Orléans BM, Ms. 277 (233) + Paris BN, N.A.L. 1630 (f.14-16). - Part B originally belongs to the same codex as Oxford BL, Ms. Canon. Class. Lat. 279 (ff. 63-86).
  • Parts of the text have faded away in part A.
  • Textual: (ff. 5v-9r) Latin translation/adaptation by Boethius of Aristotle's Peri (h)ermeneias, a part of the 'Organon'. - (ff. 44r-50v) Latin translation and epitome of part of Aristotle's Organon, erroneously attributed to Augustine of Hippo. This epitome is influenced by the work of Themistius. - (ff. 67r-70r) Without beginning. Incipit: "...unitatem ecclesiae. Nomen meum novum, hoc est nomen christianum...". - (f. 71v) In the manuscript attributed to Alcuin of York. Incipit: "O vos est aetas...". - (ff. 71v-73v) Letters 1-7.
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