London Burney MS 275

London Burney MS 275

1309-1316

Scholastic miscellany

This manuscript is a high-quality production of scholastic texts important in Parisian university learning in the early fourteenth century, where it was made for Franciscus Caracciolo of Naples, chancellor of Paris (chancellor 1309, d. 1316), to give to his patron, King Robert of Naples (b. 1278, d. 1343). It comprises twenty-one distinctive treatises and works that formed the basis of the scholastic Trivium and Quadrivium, including works on grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, geometry, astronomy and music.

Contents:

• ff. 3r-93r: Priscian (Priscianus Caesariensis), Institutiones Grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar).

• ff. 94r-119v: Priscian, De Constructione (On Construction).

• ff. 120r-143r: Cicero, Institutiones (Institutions) and De Inventione (On Invention).

• ff. 143r-165v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric: For Herennius).

• ff. 166r-169v: Boethius's translation of Porphyry's Isagoge in Categorias Aristotelis (Introduction to Aristotle's Categories).

• ff. 169v-176r: Boethius's translation of Aristotle's Categoriae (Categories).

• ff. 176v-180r: Boethius's translation of Aristotle's De Interpretatione (On Interpretation).

• ff. 180v-183v: Pseudo-Gilbertus Porretanus (Gilbert of Poitiers), Liber de sex principiis (Book of the Six Principles).

• Boethius's translations of
  • Aristotle's Priora Analytica (Prior Analytics) 184r-205r
  • Posteriora Analytica (Posterior Analytics) 205r -218r
  • Topicorum (Topics) Posteriora Analytica (Posterior Analytics) 218v-244r
  • Elenchorum Sophisticorum (Sophistical Refutations) 244v-253r

• ff. 252v-288r: Boethius, De Divisione (On Division), De Topicis differentiis (On Various Topics), De Hypotheticis syllogismis (On Hypothetical Syllogisms), De Syllogismo cathegorico (On categorical syllogism).

• ff. 288v-292v: Cicero, Topica (Topics).

• ff. 293r-335r: Adelard of Bath's translation of Euclid's Elementa (Elements).

• ff. 336r-359r: Boethius, De Arithmetica (On Arithmetics).

• ff. 359v-390r: Boethius, De Musica (On Music).

• ff. 390v-560v: Gerard of Cremona's translation of Ptolemy's Almagest.

See also

• Digitisation