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Commentary on Aristotle, De interpretatione

Secundum Simplicium

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 96

Fergus Bovill and William Duba 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

General Information

Title Commentary on Artistotle, De interpretatione
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 96
Page/Folio Reference front and back pastedowns-flyleaves
Material Parchment
Date of Origin first half, 14th century
Script, Hands

A Northern Gothic school script written in a single hand. Lemmata are written in a larger bookhand.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Line Height 3 – 4 mm
Ruling in ink
More about the Condition

Running rubric titles at the top of some columns.

Current Condition

Extent 2 parts of a single bifolium
Dimensions 60 x 315 mm (front fragment); 60 x 310 mm (rear fragment)
More about the Current Condition

Two parts of a single partial bifolium repurposed as a spine liner in the host volum. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One 5-line penwork initial in red. 

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Rubrics, paraph marks, and underlining in red. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Anonymous
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Commentary on Artistotle, De interpretatione
    • Content Description

      A literal commentary Aristotle's De interpretatione (Peri hermeneias), preserved in parts of a bifolium (Outwards and Inwards on the reconstruction). The prior leaf (Outwards, recto A) has written at the top P(er)iar(meneias), and what is likely the incipit of the work: Secundum Simplicium loyca est intrumentum intellectus dirigens ipsum in omnibus suis operationibus; operationes autem intellectus sunt tres, ut patet tertio De anima. The last underlined text in column B of the prior verso refers to Peri hermeneias c. 1 (AL II, 1-2, p. 5, l. 4): Sunt ergo ea quae sunt in voce earum quae sunt in anima passionum notae, et ea quae scribuntur eorum quae sunt in voce.

      The posterior leaf has at the top of column a of the recto (Inwards Recto A) the lemma manifestum ergo, under the running title Quid sit una affirmatio et una negatio, a reference to cap. 8, Manifestum est (p. 13, l. 7); the lemmata in column b are In singularibus vero (cap. 9; p. 13, l. 17)) and nam si omnes (=nam si omnis, cap. 9, p. 13, l. 17). The final lemma the verso (Outwards verso, column b), at vero nec (cap.  9, p. 15, l. 1).

Host Volume

Title Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, Supplementum chronicarum
Date of Origin/Publication 15 February 1492/93
Place of Origin/Publication Venice
Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 96
Persons Bernardinus Rizus
Remarks

ISTC: ij00212000

Bibliography

  • On the host volume:

    Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, pp. 295-96.  
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