Authors/Antonius

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Commentary on the Ars Vetus

Antonius's main philosophical work is the commentary on the Ars Vetus, composed of five separate commentaries to Aristotle’s Categories and Perihermenias, Porphyrius’s Isagoge, Boethius’s Divisiones and the Liber sex principiorum ascribed to Gilbert de la Porree. Much of this work is not original, consisting of reworked but closely-worded versions of material written by Scotus and other 13th century writers. Three of the works in the Ars Vetus commentary, for example, are based almost entirely on Scotus's question commentaries on Porphyry, the Categories and the Perihermenias.

The 1508 edition of the work consists of

  • Isagoge Porphyrii ad praedicamenta Aristotelis (ff 1-17v)
  • Scriptum super librum praedicamentorum Aristotelis (17v-42v)
  • Scriptum super librum Sex Principiorum (43r-62r)
  • Scriptum super librum Perihermenias (63v-88r)
  • Scriptum super librum divisionum Boetii (88v-102r)

The Sophistici Elenchi is not included, suggesting that Antonius did not have access to any sources.

Expositio on the Metaphysics

See Expositio on the Metaphysics.

Primary sources

  • Commentary on Boethius De divisione
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
  • Commentary on the Sentences
  • Abbreviatio operis Oxoniensis Scoti
  • Commentarius in Libris de sex principiis
  • Compendiosus principium in libros Sententiarum
  • De tribus principiis rerum naturalium (quaestiones)
  • Expositio (Quaestiones) in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis
  • Liber Praedicabilium
  • Quaestiones de anima
  • Quaestiones super Physicam Aristotelis
  • Scriptum aureum super Metaphysicam Aristotelis$
  • Scriptum in artem veterem
  • Scriptum in logica sua
  • Tractatus abbreviatus de modis distinctionum
  • Tractatus de syllogismis demonstrativis
  • Tractatus de syllogismo topico

Secondary sources

  • Lohr, Charles: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, in: Traditio 23 (1967), 313-413.
  • Weijers, Olga: Le travail intellectuel à la faculté des arts de Paris. Textes et maîtres (ca. 1200-1500), I, Turnhout (Brepols) 1994 [Studia Artistarum, 1].

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