Most important of all in the introduction is the obligation to restate the case for the attribution of this set of glosses on the Timaeus to Bernard of Chartres. [...] Of all Plato's dialogues, it is the Timaeus that has, in terms of the continuity of its presence and the difficulty of its doctrine, exercised the profoundest influence on the history of western philosophy. [...] Though Socrates and his three guests begin their conversation with the recollection of an ideal city similar to the one described in the Republic and then turn to discuss the myth of Atlantis (17a-27b), the work is primarily devoted to Timaeus of Locri's account of the workings of the cosmos. [...] Midway hi the dialogue (47e) the interlocutor shifts abruptly from a top-down consideration of the provident and reasoning worker-god hi the act of arranging the world to a bottom-up study of the necessary limitations placed upon his work by the errant nature of the disordered chaos he first surveyed. [...] Nor, in the wake of the wider interest of Ficino and the Platonists of the Italian Renaissance in the entire corpus of Platonic dialogues, did the early modern world puzzle long over the one dialogue that had been known for centuries.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-316) and index
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Preface 12
- Abbreviations 14
- Introduction 16
- A: THE TREATISE 16
- Background 16
- Authorship and Date of the Glosae super Platonem 23
- Bernard of Chartres 36
- The Glosae: Character, Structure, and Style 60
- Sources 77
- The Birth of the Concept of the Formae Natiuae 85
- Influence and Diffusion 111
- B: THE TEXT 123
- Description of the Manuscripts 123
- The Descent of the Manuscripts 142
- Bernard of Chartres's Copy of the Timaeus 146
- The Notae Platonicae 149
- Glosae super Platonem Bernardi Carnotensis 152
- Sigla 153
- 1. Accessus ad Timaeum 154
- 2. Glosae super prooemium Calcidii 157
- GLOSARUM SUPER TIMAEUM LIBER PRIMUS 160
- 3. Recapitulatio Socratis et Narratio Critiae 160
- 4. De constitutione mundi 172
- 5. De anima mundi 188
- GLOSARUM SUPER TIMAEUM LIBER SECUNDUS 204
- 6. De quattuor-generibus animalium 204
- 7. De humano corpore 216
- 8. De primordiali materia 233
- Appendices 250
- 1. Notae Platonicae 250
- 2. Witnesses to the Career of Bernard of Chartres 254
- 3. A Finding List of Dependent Glosses 265
- Bibliography 313
- Index of Manuscripts 332
- Index of Words in the Text 333
- A 333
- B 334
- C 334
- D 335
- E 336
- F 337
- G 337
- H 337
- I 338
- L 339
- M 339
- N 340
- O 340
- P 341
- Q 342
- R 342
- S 343
- T 344
- U 344
- Z 345
- General Index 346
- A 346
- B 346
- C 346
- D 346
- E 347
- F 347
- G 347
- H 347
- I 347
- J 347
- K 347
- L 347
- M 347
- N 348
- O 348
- P 348
- Q 348
- R 348
- S 348
- T 348
- U 349
- V 349
- W 349
- Y 349
