The Philosophical Works of Boethius. Editions and Translations

 

Detailed Index of the Section "History of Logic in Relationship to Ontology"

Boethius' Logic: A Selected Bibliography of Contemporary Studies

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF BOETHIUS

• Luca Obertello. Severino Boezio. Genova: Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere 1974. Vol. II: Bibliografia boeziana. Bibliografia generale pp. 323

• Joachim Gruber. Boethius 1925-1998 in: Lustrum. Internationale Forschungsberichte aus deim Bereich des klassischen Altertums, 39, 1997 pp. 307-383 and 40, 1998 pp. 199-259 (see in particular the Section C. Schriften zur Logik pp. 353-373, 117 titles).

• Christophe Erismann. Originalité et latinité de la philosophie de Boèce. Note bibliographique, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 51, 2004 pp. 277–289.

• John Marenbon, (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 311–339.

• Joachim Gruber. Kommentar zu Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae. Berlin: de Gruyter 2006. Second fully revised and extended edition (first edition 1978). Anhang. Systematische Literaturverzeichnis pp. 409-444.

• Antonio Doñas. Bibliographia Boethiana I. in: Memorabilia 13 (2011), pp. 285-334 (PDF). (see in particular the Section 4.3, Logic and Metaphysics, pp. 304-315).
  First part of a bibliography about the life, time, work and influence of Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. This first part includes previous bibliographies, general studies, editions of all his works and particular studies about his life and work.

• Phillips, Philip Edward. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: A Chronology and Selected Annotated Bibliography, in: A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips, Leiden, Brill, (to be published in 2012).

For more information see: John Magee and John Marenbon, Appendix: Boethius' Works, in: John Marenbon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 303-310.
"This Appendix is designed as a user's guide to Boethius' works. It is divided according to the four main spheres of his activity - (A) mathematical subjects; (B) logic; (c) theology; (D) the Consolation - with additional sections on (E) lost works and (F) works sometimes misattributed to him. For each work, there is a very brief description, any questions over its authenticity and completeness are considered and a dating given, where possible; the best edition is cited (and any other useful ones) and details of translations and commentaries given, where applicable."

EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BOETHIUS' WORKS

BOETHIUS OPERA OMNIA IN THE PATROLOGIA LATINA

1. Manlii Severini Boetii opera omnia. Edited by Migne Jacques Paul. Paris: 1847.
   Patrologia Latina vol. 63.
   Contents:
   N. of Columns:
   0555 - 0562C Vita Operaque [Editor]
   0561 - 0574D Vita Operaque. Testimonia Variorum De Boethio Et Ejus Scriptis
   0579 - 0870A De Consolatione Philosophiae
   1079 - 1167A De Arithmetica Libri Duo
   1307 - 1352C Euclidis Megarensis Geometriae Libri Duo Ab A M Severino Boethio Translati [opera spuria]
   1352 - 1364D Liber De Geometria [opera spuria]
   
   Patrologia Latina vol. 64.
   Contents:
   N. of Columns:
   0009 - 0070D In Prophyrium Dialogi A Victorino Translati
   0071 - 0158D Commentarii In Porphyrium A Se Translatum
   0159 - 0294C In Categorias Aristotelis Libri Quatuor
   0293 - 0640A In Librum Aristotelis De Interpretatione Libri Duo
   0639 - 0712C Priorum Analyticorum Aristotelis Libri Duo
   0711 - 0762B Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis Libri Duo
   0761 - 0832A De Syllogismo Categorico
   0831 - 0876C De Syllogismo Hypothetico Libri Duo
   0875 - 0892A De Divisione
   0891 - 0910C Liber De Diffinitione [the author is Marius Victorinus, not Boethius]
   0909 - 1008C Topicorum Aristotelis Libri Octo Severino Boethio Interprete
   1007 - 1040D Elencorum Sophisticorum Aristotelis Libro Duo Severino Boetio Interprete
   1039 - 1174A In Topica Ciceronis Commentariorum Libri Sex
   1173 - 1216D De Differentiis Topicis Libri Quatuor
   1217 - 1222C Speculatio De Rhethoricae Cognatione [opera spuria]
   1221 - 1224C Locorum Rhethoricorum Distinctio [opera spuria]
   1223 - 1238D De Disciplina Scholarum [opera spuria]
   Theological tractates:
   1247 - 1256A Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii
   1299 - 1302C Utrum Pater Et Filus Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber
   1311 - 1314C Quomodo Substantiae In Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona
   1333 - 1338C Brevis Fidei Christianae Complexio
   1337 - 1354D Liber De Persona Et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium

MODERN EDITIONS OF BOETHIUS' TRANSLATIONS OF ARISTOTLE AND PORPHYRY

1. Categoriae vel Praedicamenta. Translatio Boethii, Editio Composite, Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka, Lemmata e Simplicii commentario decerpta, Pseudo-Augustini Paraphrasis Themistiana. Edited by Minio-Paluello Lorenzo. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1961.
   Aristotele Latinus I. 1-5. "This volume contains five Latin versions of Aristotle's Categories. Numbers 1 (pp. 5-41) and 2 (pp. 47-79) both stem from Boethius, who is responsible for the Latin translations that were most widespread. One of them is more literal, the other more elegant. William of Moerbeke, on the other hand, was the author of a Latin version not only of Aristotle's work (3), but also of Simplicius' commentary, which contains the abbreviated lemmas of the Aristotelian text (4). Moreover, Aristotle's work was known by means of a Roman paraphrase attributed to Augustin and influenced by Themistius (5)."
2. Categoriarum supplementa. Porphyrii Isagoge, Translatio Boethii, et Anonymi Fragmentum vulgo vocatum "Liber sex principiorum". Edited by Minio-Paluello Lorenzo. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1966.
   Aristotele Latinus I. 6-7. "This volume constitutes a supplement to the Latin versions of the Categories. It contains Porphyry's famous Introduction to Aristotle'sCategories in Boethius' translation (6) and an extract of an anonymous 12th century Latin writing, which was widespread under the title Liber sex principiorum (7): it deals mainly with the last six categories, treated more briefly in Aristotle's work. The volume also contains the fragments quoted by Boethius from an older Latin version of Porphyry's Introduction, done by Marius Victorinus."
3. De interpretatione vel Periermenias. Translatio Boethii, Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka. Edited by Verbeke Gérard and Minio-Paluello Lorenzo. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1965.
   Aristotele Latinus II. 1-2. "This volume contains the vulgate text of the Perihermeneias, which goes back to Boethius (1), and the version composed with the lemmas of the Aristotelian text in William of Moerbeke's translation of Ammonius' commentary (2)."
4. Analytica priora. Translatio Boethii (recensiones duae), Translatio anonyma, Pseudo-Philoponi aliorumque Scholia. Edited by Minio-Paluello Lorenzo. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1962.
   Aristotele Latinus III. 1-4. "Boethius composed a double Latin version not only of the Categories, but of the Prior Analytics as well (1-2). However, the two versions have not been edited separately except for certain parts, the second version having been displayed, for the other parts, in the critical apparatus. Apart from these widespread texts, a good, but not quite successful anonymous 12th century translation of Aristotle's logic has come down to us (3). Special attention is paid to a set of Latin scholia to the Prior Analytics (4), the origin of which is disputed. According to L. Minio-Paluello and J. Shiel, they were translated by Boethius along with the Aristotelian text; according to recent research, however, they might go back to a translation by James of Venice."
   Reprint with a supplement composed by J. Shiel, Leiden, Brill, 1998
5. Topica. Translatio Boethii, Fragmentum Recensionis Alterius et Translatio Anonyma. Edited by Minio-Paluello Lorenzo. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1969.
   Aristotele Latinus V. 1-3. "Boethius' rendering of the Topics has been carried out, once more, in two versions (1-2), one of which has not been preserved but partly. Moreover, a 12th century version is extant: it stems from the anonymous translator of the Prior analytics (3)."
6. De sophisticis elenchis. Translatio Boethii, Fragmenta Translationis Iacobi et Recensio Guillelmi de Moerbeke. Edited by Dod Bernard G. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer 1975.
   Aristotele Latinus VI. 1-3. "The vulgate text of the De sophisticis elenchis stems from Boethius (1). Fragments of another version have been attributed to James of Venice (2), and William of Moerbeke did a revision of Boethius' translation (3)."

MODERN EDITIONS OF BOETHIUS' COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE AND PORPHYRY

1. Porphyrii Isagoge et in Aristotelis Categorias commentarium. Edited by Busse Adolf. Berlin: Reimer 1887.
   Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca IV.1
2. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii In Isagogen Porphyrii commenta. Vienna: Tempsky 1906.
   Copiis a Georgio Schepss comparatis suisque usus, recensuit Samuel Brandt.
   Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum vol. 38.
   Anastatic reprint: New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966
   First Commentary on Isagoge pp. 3-132; Second Commentary on the Isagoge pp. 135-348
3. Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Commentarii in librum Aristotelis Peri Hermeneías [First commentary]. Lipsia: Teubner 1877.
   Recensuit Carolus Meiser.
   Pars prior versionem continuam et primam editionem continens.
   Reprint New York, Garland 1987
4. Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Commentarii in librum Aristotelis Peri Hermeneías [Second commentary]. Lipsia: Teubner 1880.
   Recensuit Carolus Meiser.
   Pars posterior secundam editionem et Indices continens.
   Reprint New York, Garland 1987

MODERN EDITIONS OF OTHER WORKS

1. In Ciceronis Topica. In M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera Omnia. Vol. V. 1. Edited by Orelli Johann Kaspar von and Baiter Johann Georg. Zurich: 1833. pp. 27-388
   The text of this edition is frequently (but not always) better than Migne.
2. Boethius' De topicis differentiis und die byzantinische Rezeption dieses Werkes. Paris: Vrin 1990.
   De topicis differentiis kaì hoi byzantinès metaphráseis ton Manouèl Holobolou kaì Prochórou Kydóne: parartéma / Anhang: Eine Pachymeres-Weiterbearbeitung der Holobolos-Übersetzung eisagogé kaì kritiké ekdosé ton keimenon hypo Demetrio u Z. Niketa.
   Introduction (in German) and critical edition by Dimitrios Z. Nikitas (Corpus philosophorum medii aevi. Philosophi Byzantini, vol. 5)
3. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg 2008.
   Critical edition with introduction, commentary, and indexes by Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist
4. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De syllogismo categorico. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg 2008.
   Critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes by Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist
5. De hypotheticis syllogismis. Brescia: Paideia 1969.
   Latin text, Italian translation, introduction and commentary by Luca Obertello
6. De divisione liber. Leiden: Brill 1998.
   Critical edition, translation, prolegomena and commentary by John Magee.
7. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boetii De institutione arithmetica libri duo. De institutione musica libri quinque. Accedit geometria quae fertur Boetii. Edited by Friedlein Gottfried. Lipsia: Teubner 1867.
   Reprint: Frankfurt, Minerva, 1966.
   De institutione arithmetica pp. 3-173; De institutione musica pp. 175-371
8. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De arithmetica. Edited by Oosthout Henri and Schilling Johannes. Turnhout: Brepols 1999.
   Corpus Christianorum. Serie Latina 94A
9. De institutione arithmetica libri duo. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music 2007.
   Édition proto-philologique intégrale princeps d'un manuscrit du IXe siècle (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 14064).
   Texte, gloses, notes tironiennes, signes de renvoi par Illo Humphrey.
   Text of De institutione arithmetica in Latin; preliminary essay in English; introduction and concluding essay in French
10. Boethius' Geometrie II. Ein mathematisches Lehrbuch des Mittelalters. Edited by Folkerts Menso. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner 1970.
11. Boethius' De institutione musica. Edited by Santosuosso Alma. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music 1999.
    Music theory in mediaeval Normandy. Volume 1. MSS Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, 236, 237
12. Opuscola sacra. Louvain: Peeters 2007.
    Vol. 1. Capita dogmatica: Traités II, III, IV. Texte latin de l'édition de Claudio Moreschini.
    Introduction, traduction et commentaire par Alain Galonnier; préface de Jean Jolivet
13. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii Philosophiae consolatio. Edited by Bieler Ludwig. Turnhout: Brepols 1957.
    Corpus Christianorum. Serie Latina 94
14. De consolatione philosophiae. Opuscula theologica. Edited by Moreschini Claudio. Lipsia: K. G. Saur 2000.
    Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
    Second revised edition 2005

N.B.: For the De consolatione philosophiae I give only the main translations (the list of translations section is under construction).

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

• From his Second Commentary to Porphyry's Isagoge. In Five texts on the mediaeval problem of universals. Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham. Edited by Spade Paul Vincent. Indianapolis: Hackett 1994. pp. 20-25
• Aristotle's Theory of Language and Its Tradition. Texts from 500 to 1750. Edited by Arens Hans. Amsterdam: Benjamins 1984.
  Selection, translation and commentary by Hans Arens; Partial translation of the second commentary to De interpretatione.
  Contents: Preface 1; 1. The extraordinary fate of Peri hermeneias 6; 2. Aristotle's text 16; 3. Commentary to Aristotle 24; 4. Ammonius: Commentary 58; 5. Commentary to Ammonius 124; 6. Boethius: Commentary 159; 7. Commentary to Boethius 205; 8. Abaelard: Glosses 231; 9. Commentary to Abaelard 303; 10. Albertus Magnus: Paraphrase 339; 11. Commentary to Albert 376; 12. Thomas Aquinas: Expositio 397; 13. Commentary to Thomas 434; 14. Martinus de Dacia: Quaestiones 458; 15. Commentary to Martin 471; 16. Johannes a S.Thoma: Ars logica484; 17. Commentary to John of St.Thomas 507; 18. James Harris, an Aristotelian of the 18th century 514; References 523; Concordance 527; Index of Persons 530
• Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-3. London: Duckworth 2010.
  Translated by Andrew Smith.
• Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 4-6. London: Duckworth 2011.
  Translated by Andrew Smith.
• On determinism. Ammonius On Aristotle On interpretation 9 with Boethius On Aristotle On interpretation 9 first and second commentaries. London: Duckworth 1998.
  Ammonius translated by David Blank; Boethius translated by Norman Kretzmann.
  With essays by Richard Sorabji, Norman Kretzmann and Mario Mignucci.
• Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De syllogismo categorico. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg 2008.
  Critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes by Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist
• De hypotheticis syllogismis. Brescia: Paideia 1969.
  Latin text, Italian translation, introduction and commentary by Luca Obertello
• In Ciceronis Topica. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1988.
  Translated with notes and an introduction by Eleonore Stump
• De topicis differentiis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1978.
  Translated, with notes and essays on the text, by Eleonore Stump
• De divisione liber. Leiden: Brill 1998.
  Critical edition, translation, prolegomena and commentary by John Magee.
• On division. In Logic and philosophy of language. Edited by Kretzmann Norman and Stump Eleonore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988. pp. 11-38
  The Cambridge translations of medieval philosophical texts. Vol 1
• Boethian number theory. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1983.
  Translation, with introduction and notes, of the De institutione arithmetica by Charles Masi
• Fundamentals of music. Edited by Palisca Claude. New Haven: Yale University Press 1969.
  Translated, with introduction and notes by Calvin M. Bower
• The theological tractates / The consolation of philosophy. London: Heinemann 1973.
  The Loeb Classical Library; new edition; Latin text and English translation.
  The theological tractates translated by H. F. Stewart, E. K. Rand and S. J. Tester; The consolation of philosophy translated by S. J. Tester.
• The Consolation of Philosophy. Indianapolis: Hackett 2001.
  Translated, with introduction and notes, by Joel C. Relihan
• The Consolation of Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999.
  Translated with introduction and explanatory notes by Patrick Gerard Walsh.

FRENCH TRANSLATIONS

• Institution arithmétique. Paris: Belles Lettres 1995.
  Latin text and French translation by Jean-Yves Guillaumin
• Traité de la musique. Turnhout: Brepols 2005.
  Texte Latin (de l'édition publiée en 1867 par Gottfried Friedlein) et traduction française par Christian Meyer

ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS

• Trattato sulla divisione. Padova: Liviana 1969.
  Latin text and Italian translation with an introduction and commentary by Lorenzo Pozzi

 

 

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