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Glosses to Porphyry (ΙCΡΑ)
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Set of glosses to a text of Boethius’ translation of Porphyry’s Isagoge (an introduction to Aristotle's ten categories) in Paris, BNF, MS lat. 12949. In a quatrain at the end of the text, it is claimed to have been written by a certain ‘ΙCΡΑ’ (in Greek script), who is now usually identified with Israel the Grammarian. The glosses contain a reference to the Periphyseon of John Scottus Eriugena, who had been teacher to Israel.
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12949
context: Translatio Isagoges Porphyrii (Boethius) rubric: Incipit liber artis dialecticae introductiones quae et Ysagogae Porphyrii incl. Scripturae finem sibi quaerunt hic Ysagogae, Glosses to Porphyry (ΙCΡΑ) Boethius' Latin translation of Porphyry's Isagoge, which has been edited by Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, Categoriarum supplementa: Porphyrii Isagoge, translatio Boethii et anonymi fragmentum, vulgo vocatum ‘Liber sex principiorum’ (Bruges 1966). The text is amply glossed in the margins and interlinear spaces. The last page contains a Latin quatrain beg. Scripturae finem sibi quaerunt hic Ysagogae, which serves as a kind of signature identifying the author of the glosses: the second line reads ‘ΙCΡΑ hunc scripsi glossans utcumque libellum’. This ΙCΡΑ, written in Greek script, has been read as the name of Israel the Grammarian.
in section: f. 46r–
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[ed.] Baeumker, Clemens, and Bodo Sartorius von Waltershausen, Frühmittelalterliche Glossen des angeblichen Jepa zur Isagoge des Porphyrius nach der Pariser Handschrift, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, 24.1, Münster, 1924.
[ed.] Silagi, Gabriel, and Bernhard Bischoff, Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 5: Die Lateinischen Dichter des deutschen Mittelalters: die Ottonenzeit, fasc. 3, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1979.
Dmgh.de: <link>
648 Three verses from the glosses (I-III).
Secondary sources (select)
Marenbon, John, “Medieval Latin commentaries and glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, before c. 1150 AD”, in: Charles Burnett (ed.), Glosses and commentaries on Aristotelian logical texts: the Syriac, Arabic and medieval Latin traditions, London: The Warburg Institute, 1993. 77–127.
esp. 81–82, 99
Jeauneau, Édouard, “Pour le dossier d’Israel Scot”, Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du Moyen Âge 52 (1985): 21–36.
