Medieval Aristotle

Nena Bobovnik is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Clelia V. Crialesi is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at CNRS-SPHERE in Paris, and previously held an FWO postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven within the Aristoteles Latinus project. Lisa Devriese is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and Director of the Aristoteles Latinus project.

• Introduction Nena Bobovnik, Clelia V. Crialesi, and Lisa DevrieseGigantum umeris insidentes: The Aristoteles Latinus and the Corpus Philosophorum Medii AeviPietro B. RossiThe Latin Translation of the De mirabilibus auscultationibus by Bartholomew of Messina: Remarks on its Manuscript Transmission and its Greek Sources Ciro GiacomelliDoubting Thomas: A Hesitation in Aquinas While Re-reading Aristotle Andrea Aldo RobiglioExploring Aristotle’s Words: The tabulae librorum philosophorum in the ms. Pisa, Bibliotheca Cathariniana, 124 and the Aristotelian Corpus in the Mid-Thirteenth Century Riccardo SaccentiThe Meaning of Ut excedentia et excessa and the Curious Case of William of Moerbeke’s Translation of Metaphysica 5.15 (1020b26–28) Stephen M. MetzgerThirteenth-Century Latin Commentators of the Metaphysica on the Relationship Between Alpha Meizon and Alpha Elatton: A Problem of Translation and Interpretation Silvia DonatiAristotle on Being as True in Greek, Arabic, and Latin: Metaphysics Δ.7, 1017a31–35, Across Three Philosophical Traditions Marta Borgoa, Davide Falessib, and mostafa najaficThe Aristotelian Library of Nicholas of Cusa: The Case of the Metaphysica Luca Burzelli and Mario MeliadòPeter of Abano as Reader of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Physiognomonica Elena BertiOn the Appetite of Plants: Averroean Elements in Commentaries on the De plantis (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century) Marilena PanarelliAristotelizing Pseudo-Aristotle in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts of the Book of the Apple (Sefer ha-tapuaḥ) Ioana CuruțIndex nominum (ante 1800) Index codicum manu scriptorum

This volume stands as a fitting tribute to the Aristoteles Latinus project at a pivotal moment in its history. It balances critical retrospection with forward-looking inquiry, offering philological studies and methodological reflections. The complexity of the Aristotelian tradition—transmitted across Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin—often exceeds the capacity of any single scholar to master fully. The collection is rich in detail and ambitious in scope, and will stimulate further research on the transmission and transformation of Aristotelian thought in the Middle Ages. - Péter Bara, Central European University