1media/KSRL_MS-C189_folios18v-19r_thumb.jpg2022-10-22T01:30:41-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52406363A sample opening from MS C189, displaying the end of Porphyry’s Isagoge on folio 18v and the beginning of Aristotle’s Perihermenias on folio 19r.plain2022-11-19T08:36:14-08:00“Manuscript of the Month: A Manuscript, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma,” Inside Spencer: The KSRL Blog, April 1, 2020.Lawrence, KansasSpencer Research LibraryKSRL: MS C18920200317N. Kivilcim Yavuz20200317150938University of KansasElizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52
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12022-11-09T13:50:47-08:00MS C189 Text 211plain2022-12-13T16:21:26-08:00 Text 2: ff. 8r-19r Title: Praedicamenta (also known as Categoriae or Categories) Author:Aristotle(translated by Boethius) Language: Latin
Praedicamenta "[rubric] Incipit liber p[re]dicame[n]to[rum]. [incipit] [E]quivoca dicu[n]t[ur] quo[rum] nom[en] solu[m] co[mmun]e est ... [explicit] s[ed] q[ui] [con]sueveru[n]t dici pene om[ne]s enum[er]ati s[unt]."
The set of doctrines in the Categories, provides the framework for Aristotle’s philosophical questions Aristotle frames his categories through 10 different lenses:
Aristotle was born in 384 BCE, and he lived on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. He moved to Athens in 367 and joined the Academy of Plato, where he stayed for 20 years as Plato’s pupil and colleague. Aristotle wrote on a range of disciplines, from philosophy, rhetoric and ethics through aesthetics, botany and zoology, and into fields such as political science and metaphysics.