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==Earliest translations==
''Earliest translations of Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic works into Latin'' (from ''The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy'',  ed. A. S. McGrade, Cambridge 2003, p.44).
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!valign = top width=20%|Work
!valign = top width=20%|Translator
!valign = top width=20%|Date
!valign = top width=20%|Modern editions
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|Plato
|Timaeus
|Calodius
|c. 400
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|Aristotle
|Categories
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
|[[Authors/Boethius/categories]]
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|De interpretatione
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
|[[Authors/Boethius/Periherm]]
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|Prior Analytics
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
|[[Authors/Boethius/TrPA]]
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|Posterior Analytics
|James of Venice
|? 1125-50
|[[Aristoteles Latinus|''Analytica posteriora'']]. Translationes Iacobi, edd. L. Minio-Paluello et B.G. Dod, Desclée De Brouwer, Bruges-Paris 1968.
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|Topics
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
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|Sophistical Refutations
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
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|Physics
|James of Venice
|? 1125-50
|[[Aristoteles Latinus|''Physica'', Translatio Vetus]], edd. F. Bossier et J. Brams
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|De anima
|James of Venice
|? 1125-50
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|Metaphysics (nearly complete)
|Michael Scot
|c. 1220-24
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|Nicomachean Ethics (complete)
|Robert Grosseteste
|• 1246-47
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|Politics
|William of Moerbeke
|• 1260
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|Porphyry
|Introduction (isagoge)
|Boethius
|c. 510-22
|[[Authors/Porphyry/isagoge]]
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|Proclus
|Elements of Theology
|William of Moerbeke
|1268
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|Anonymous
|Liber de causis (drawn from Proclus)
|Gerard of Cremona
|before 1187
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|Ps.-Dionysius
|Mystical Treatises
|Scottus Eriugena
|862
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|Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
|Metaphysics [Book of Healing IV)
|Dominicus Gundisalvi
|after 1150
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|De anima (Book of Healing III.6)
|Ibn Daoud and Dominicus Gundisalvi
|after 1152
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|Ihn Cabirol
|Fountain of Life
|Iohannes Hispanus and Dominicus Gundisalvi
|after 1152
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|Maimonides
|Guide for the
Perplexed
|Anonymous
|c. 1230
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|Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
|Great Commentary on
Aristotle's Physics
|Michael Scot
|c. 1220-35
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|Great Commentary on Aristotle's De anima
|Michael Scot
|c.1220-24
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|Great Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
|Michael Scot
|c.1220-24
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|Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
|Herman the German
|? 1240
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==The Metaphysics==
It was only in the early 13th century, when Michael Scot translated the Arabic version contained in Averroe's Long Commentary on the Metaphysics (the so-called ''Metaphysica Nova''), that the text became fully available in the Latin West, some time after a tradition of commentaries on the ''Categories'' had been established. Most of the early English commentaries are based on the ''Metaphysica Nova''.
*''Metaphysica Vetustissima'', ascribed to James of Venice. See [[Aristoteles Latinus]] XXV. Contains only the first four books.  A highly literal translation, even down to the word order. Although he sometimes translates the same Greek word with different Latin words, he systematically translates the key terms in a fixed way, sometimes deferring to Boethius's vocabulary.
*''Metaphysica Vetus'', probably a revision of James's translation.
* ''Metaphysica Media'', also known as ''Translatio anonyma''. A second translation from the Greek (the Translatio Media) seems to have been used by Albert the Great as the basis of his commentary.” See [[Aristoteles Latinus]] XXV.  It contains lib. I-X, XII-XIV. The translation is anonymous, but a close relationship has been demonstrated between the Media and the Translatio Vaticana of the ''Physics''", an anonymous translation dating back probably to the second half of the 12th century. Reading 'Canoniensis' as 'Cremononsis', Minio-Paluello tentatively ascribes it to Gerard of Cremona (d.1187), best known as a translator from Arabic into Latin. See "Latin Medieval Translations of Aristotle's ''Metaphysics''", Marta Borgo, [[Amerini & Galluzzo 2013]] p. 37 ff.
* ''Metaphysica Nova'': Aristotle's text taken from the translation of Averroes' commentary, probably by Michael Scot, 1220s<ref> [[Amerini & Galluzzo 2013]] p. 49</ref>.  The first complete translation of the Metaphysics.
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