Munich. BSB clm. 14246

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Sten Ebbesen:

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]

References

  • Ebbesen, “Manlius Boethius on Aristotle’s Analytica Posteriora”, (CIMAGL 9, 1973, 68-73) https://cimagl.saxo.ku.dk/download/9/9Ebbesen68-73.pdf
  • "The Aristotelian Commentator", in John Marenbon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, Cambridge: Cambridge Unviersity Press 2009, pp. 34-55.)