Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De divisione liber

This volume provides the first 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 four main sections: prolegomena in three parts, dealing with the date, source(s), and text of De divisione; critical text with apparatus and English translation; detailed philological and philosophical commentary; appendix, bibliography, and word index.
This is the first edition of De divisione based on the earliest extant manuscripts, and the first complete commentary in any modern language. It will be of particular interest to students of later ancient and medieval philosophy and literature.

John Magee, Ph.D. (1986), in later ancient and medieval Latin literature, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles and Boethius on Signification and Mind (Brill, 1989).

'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)