Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii de Divisione Liber
Critical Edition, Translation, Prolegomena, and Commentary
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This volume provides a critical edition of Boethius' De Divisione . The importance of Boethius' treatise is twofold: it was widely read in the medieval schools, and it preserves the only known vestiges of Porphyry's commentary on Plato's Sophist and of Andronicus' treatise on diaeresis. The book is in the following sections: prolegomena in three parts, dealing with the date, source, and text of De Divisione ; critical text with apparatus and English translation; detailed philological and philosophical commentary.
Review:
'Magee's edition of this important though brief work of Boethius provides scholars with a model of how to handle a complicated textual tradition and exemplary honesty in admitting the limits of a recensionist approach when manuscript evidence provides sufficiently unyielding. Such excellence in textual scholarship is a rarity, but when this excellence is combined with matching excellence in translation and philosophical commentary, the resulting volume represents a lasting contribution to scholarship. Let us hope that this volume is a sign of further contributions to come. Timothy B. Noone, The Review of Metaphysics 58 (2004)
Review:
'Magee's edition of this important though brief work of Boethius provides scholars with a model of how to handle a complicated textual tradition and exemplary honesty in admitting the limits of a recensionist approach when manuscript evidence provides sufficiently unyielding. Such excellence in textual scholarship is a rarity, but when this excellence is combined with matching excellence in translation and philosophical commentary, the resulting volume represents a lasting contribution to scholarship. Let us hope that this volume is a sign of further contributions to come. Timothy B. Noone, The Review of Metaphysics 58 (2004)