MS C189 Text 4
Title: Liber Sex Principiorum, De sex principiis
Author: Gilbert de la Porree,
- a commentary on and extension of the Categories
Language: Latin
Liber Sex Principiorum
Liber Sex Principiorum
"[rubric] Liber vi p[ri]ncipo[rum]. [incipit] [F]orma est [com]po[s]itioni [con]ti[n]gens si[m]plici [et] i[n]variabili e[ss]encia ...
[explicit] cui inest secundum naturam moveri vero ignis.
[rubric] Finit amen finit. [colophon] Robertus no[m]i[n]e sc[ri]psit quod mihi dixit illo [?] [...] [...]."
In "Liber Sex Principiorum" Gilbert de la Porree breaks down Aristotle’s remaining six categories. Liber Sex Principiorum” was taught amongst "Isagoge" and the "Categories" in the middle ages.
[explicit] cui inest secundum naturam moveri vero ignis.
[rubric] Finit amen finit. [colophon] Robertus no[m]i[n]e sc[ri]psit quod mihi dixit illo [?] [...] [...]."
In "Liber Sex Principiorum" Gilbert de la Porree breaks down Aristotle’s remaining six categories. Liber Sex Principiorum” was taught amongst "Isagoge" and the "Categories" in the middle ages.
Gilbert de la Porree
(c. 1080-1154)
Born: Poiters, France
Died: ?
Gilbert de la Porree was a Biblical commentator and theologian. Born c. 1080 in Poitiers, he was appointed as the Bishop of Poitiers in 1142. Returning later to Chartres, he taught philosophy and the arts, and he was the chancellor of the school. He lived and taught during a time when philosophical principles, methods, and doctrines of rational research were extended to theological study.
