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Sententia super libro Perihermenias
- As reported by Marmo, the commentary dates back to around 1300 (Marmo 2004: 22). For the dating of the commentaries on the Ars vetus in general, see Tabarroni (1993: 407-410). The entry on Mirabile reports 1295-1305.
- The work does not appear in the fourth witness of the course on the Ars vetus (Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca. Biblioteca General Histórica, Ms. 2078), where it is replaced by Thomas’s commentary (Kristeller 1955: 428-9).
- The commentary is divided into 27 lectiones, of which 13 are on Book I and 14 on Book II.
Studies
- Kristeller P. O., A Philosophical Treatise from Bologna Dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti: Magister Jacobus de Pistorio and his ‘Questio de felicitate’, in “Medioevo e Rinascimento. Studi in onore di B. Nardi”, Firenze 1955
- Lohr C. H., Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, “Traditio” 24, 1968.
- Marmo C., Gentile da Cingoli e il suo ambiente tra filosofia e saperi medici, in “Parva naturalia”, Pisa-Roma 2004
- Tabarroni A., Gentile da Cingoli ed Angelo d’Arezzo sul “Peryermeneias” e i maestri di logica a Bologna all’inizio del XIV secolo, in “L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo”, Bologna 1992
- Weijers O., Le travail intellectuel à la Faculté des arts de Paris: textes et maîtres (ca. 1200-1500), Vol. 3, Turnhout 1994
[Prologus] Sicut scribit Philosophus in suis moralibus nobis entibus animatis, idest, homine dignum est perhonorare veritatem […]
[Textus]: Primum oportet constituere, quid nomen et quid sit verbum. Sicut a principio dicebatur tota logica est de syllogismo et de partibus eius tam materialibus quam subiectivis […]
Gratias autem recitamus altissimo creatori, quia eius misericordia et laudibus nos perduxit ad finem huius opusculi, cuius honor et decus permaneant in secula seculorum. Amen.
Matteo Stettler