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  • P. Gabriel Meier, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui in bibliotheca monasterii Einsidlensis O.S.B. servantur. Bd. 1, Einsiedeln 1899, p. 295-296.
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  • Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 193.
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  • Lohr Carolus, Aristotelica Helvetica, Scrinium Friburgense (Sonderband 6), Freiburg 1994, S. 177.
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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 324(1154)
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Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 193.

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Manuscript title: Logica vetus
Place of origin: Italy (?)
Date of origin: s. x/xi
Support: Parchment
Extent: 242 pages
Format: 162 x 158 mm
Page layout: text 110-40 x 120-35 mm; 22-28 lines
Writing and hands: Several scribes.
Decoration:
  • Initials in black;
  • headings and subheadings in capitals in ink of text;
  • paraph signs, but not systematic.
Additions: Gloss: None to Cat. and De Int., otherwise notes by Heinrich von Ligerz passim.
Binding: White leather on wood; one clasp (lost).
Contents:
  • Pp. 3-38 Cat. [Categories, AL, i. 1-2.]
  • 38-53 De Int. [De interpretatione, AL, ii. 1.]
  • 54-72 Ps.-Augustine: Dialectica
  • 72-92 Cicero: Topica
  • 93-242 in Topica Cic. [Commentary on Cicero, Topica, Ciceronis Opera, ed. J. C. Orelli and J. G. Baiter, Zurich 1833, V.i. 269-388.]
Origin of the manuscript: ?Italy (Bruckner). In Einsiedeln by c. 1350.
Bibliography:
  • Aristoteles Latinus, ed. G. Lacombe and L. Minio-Paluello, 3 vols, Rome, 1939; Cambridge, 1955; Bruges-Paris, 1961, 1157;
  • A. Bruckner, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica, 14 vols, Geneva, 1935-78; V, pp. 24, 88;
  • E. Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins, 2 vols, Paris, 1884-92 and 1894-1900. Vol. I, p. 6, pl. XXI.2;
  • P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, 6 vols, London-Leiden, 1963-97. Vol. V, p. 105;
  • Lewry, in Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence, ed. M. T. Gibson, Oxford, 1981, p. 91;
  • C. Lohr, Aristotelica Helvetica. Catalogus codicum latinorum in bibliothecis Confederationis Helveticae asservatorum quibus versiones expositionesque Aristotelis continentur, Scrinium Friburgense, 6, Fribourg, 1994, p. 177.
  • Meier, pp. 295-6;
  • B. Munk Olsen, L'Étude des auteurs classiques latins au XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols, Paris, 1982-89. Vol. I, p. 168 (B.111);
  • F. Troncarelli, Boethiana Aetas, Alessandria, 1987, pp. 109, 111;