Aristotelian Philosophy in Fragments

A New Witness of the Communia Ascribed to Robert Grosseteste

Abstract

This article presents the preliminary study of ten fragmentary strips of parchment recovered from Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Aug. pap. 119. The strips were cut from a bifolium that contained passages from a summary of and commentary on Aristotle's De anima and Ethica in their oldest Latin versions. An analysis of the content and the paleographical details clarifies the original state of the didactic text, which was previously known from a single manuscript.