Aristotle's metaphysics Lambda : : annotated critical edition based upon a systematic investigation of Greek, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew sources / / by Stefan Alexandru.

• Superior document: Philosophia Antiqua, Volume 135
• VerfasserIn: Alexandru, Stefan, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 135.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In this annotated critical edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda Stefan Alexandru explores and utilizes for the first time numerous previously neglected textual sources, written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. The twelfth book of the Metaphysics , originally an independent treatise, is crucial for the understanding of Aristotle’s philosophy, primarily because the doctrine of the Unmoved Mover is nowhere else set forth in greater detail. Not only all the forty-two formerly known Greek codices have been collated, but also commentaries and translations. Moreover, a hitherto undiscovered, independent manuscript, representing a tenuous and particularly valuable branch of the direct tradition, is minutely investigated. The document in question, preserved in the Vatican, is an autograph of the Byzantine humanist and Ecumenical Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- A New, Independent Manuscript of the Twelfth Book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics -- The Affiliations of the Hitherto Known Codices -- Sources of the Indirect Tradition and Editorial Approaches -- Text -- Critical Notes -- An Amply Annotated Humanistic Translation of Metaphysics Lambda Unduly Fallen into Oblivion -- An Inaccurately Catalogued Greek Manuscript from the Renaissance Period -- Bibliography -- Abstract -- Indexes.