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(ARISTOTLE.) Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. Dialectica. [12], 350 pages. Folio, contemporary binding of early manuscript vellum over boards, top of spine damaged, vellum missing from rear cover; scattered early marginalia, dark stain in upper outer corners toward end, 17th-century signatures on title. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1568
Collection of commentaries on logical writings by Aristotle, Porphyry, and Cicero. "In logic, Boethius's translations of Aristotle and Porphyry . . . remained standard throughout the Middle Ages. His commentaries . . . were the main instruments by which logicians from the ninth to the twelfth centuries came to understand the Aristotelian texts he had translated" (SEP). DSB II, 230; Sarton I, 425.
