In libros Ethicorum Aristotelis
ca. I.4 (1096b6)
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General Information
A regular but informal Gothic cursive. Notably, the superscript a signalling an abbreviation is usually closed, and the abbreviation for pro, like that for per, features a horizontal crossbar through the descender, just curving around on the left side.
Place of origin is an inference based on content (lectures on the Ethics) and that it was likely reused in the library of St. Victor at the end of the fourteenth century.
Original Condition
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title In libros Ethicorum Aristotelis
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Content Description
1ra features the lemma: Probabilius autem, etc., and discusses the Pythagoreans; the reference is thus to Ethica nicomachea I.4 (1096b6; Aristoteles Latinus 26.2, p. 147; 26.3, p. 190): "Probabilius autem videntur Pytagorici dicere de ipso, ponentes in bonorum coordinacione unum; quos utique et Speusippus sequi videtur. Set de hiis quidem igitur alius sit sermo"
The beginning of the lecture reads:
Circa partem istam primo queritur supra quedam supradicta in precendi (lege precedenti) lectione, videlicet quod commodius est scruptari utrum bonum dicatur uni\vo/ce, et de ydea boni quam querere utrum bonum summum sit in diviciis et honoribus et voluptatibus. {secundo de hoc quod dicit quod Pytagorici probabilius dicebant quam Platonici}. Tertio de hoc quod dicit...
The form of the text follows that of a scholastic lecture, where, after the reading of the passage of Aristotle, a series of questions on the text are posed.
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History
Possibly Paris
St.-Victor