Organon
Abstract
Princeton MS. 173 is a late 13th-century Byzantine manuscript from Constantinople containing Aristotle’s Organon (De interpretatione, Analytica priora, Analytica posteriora, and Topica), accompanied by diagrams and other textual materials. Of primary interest to scholars are the extensive marginal scholia and interlinear glosses in the manuscript.
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Collection Information
- Uniform Title:
- Organon.
- Creator:
- Aristotle.
- Contributor:
- Psellus, Michael.
- Contributor:
- Chortasmenos, John, ca. 1370-1430.
- Contributor:
- Gregoras, Nicephorus, 1295-1359 or 60.
- Contributor:
- Magentus, Leo, Archbishop of Mitylene.
- Contributor:
- Alexander, of Aphrodisias.
- Contributor:
- Themistius.
- Contributor:
- Philoponus, John, 6th cent.
- Publication / Origin:
- Constantinople, ca. 1200.
- Abstract:
- A late 13th-century Byzantine manuscript from Constantinople containing Aristotle’s Organon (De interpretatione, Analytica priora, Analytica posteriora, and Topica), accompanied by diagrams and other textual materials copied during the Paleologan Renaissance at the time of the Paleologi Dynasty, 1259-1448. The manuscript is extensively annotated with marginal scholia and interlinear glosses, some of which are unknown and as yet unpublished. Many of the scholia and diagrams in the manuscript appear to have been added by John Chortasmenos (ca. 1370-1430). Commentators include Alexander of Aphrodisias, Nicephorus Gregoras, Leo Magentus, John Philoponus, Michael Psellus, and Themistius.
- Language of material:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects:
- Aristotle — Scholia.
- Logic — Early works to 1800.
- Medium / Genre:
- Annotations.
- Glosses.
- Manuscripts, Greek -- 13th century..
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
- Note:
- Purchase: Acquired with matching funds by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
