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Translatio Isagoges Porphyrii (Boethius)
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Boethius’ translation of Porphyry’s Isagoge.
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12949
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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[crit. ed.] Minio-Paluello, Lorenzo, Categoriarum supplementa: Porphyrii Isagoge, translatio Boethii et anonymi fragmentum, vulgo vocatum ‘Liber sex principiorum’, Bruges, 1966.
Forum Romanum – Latin text (Boethius), without apparatus: <link>
[ed.] Busse, Adolf, Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca IV: Porphyrii Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium, Berlin, 1887.
Internet Archive: <link>
23–51 [‘Porphyrii introductio in Aristotelis Categorias a Boethio translata’]
