Munich. BSB clm. 14246
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- In view of these facts I conclude that Boethius the Consul wrote a commentary on the Posterior Analytics which survived till c. 1300 at least, but was little known. A single fragment is preserved in CLM 14246. Future research may discover more quotations. The appearance of this new work by Boethius lends support to the suspicion which I share with many others that he commented the whole of the Organon.” [1]
Ebbesen later writes
- A reference to a Boethian commentary on Posterior Analytics I is found in a thirteenth-century MS (Munich, clm 14246), but this is surely an error. The work referred to was really the translation of Philoponus’ commentary that most schoolmen attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias. I regret having called attention to the Munich MS in a small article of 1973, and I beg my readers not to waste their time on looking up that article.[2]