In Interpretatione Aristotelis: Commentarium Boethii cum Textu Aristotelico (Latin Edition)

Aristotle’s De Interpretatione (On Interpretation) is one of the foundational texts of ancient and medieval logic. It asks some of the most basic questions about language and thought: What do words signify? What makes a statement true or false? How are affirmation and negation related? What is the difference between universal and particular propositions? And if we speak truly about the future, does that make future events necessary?

This Nicholean Press edition presents the complete Latin text of Aristotle’s De Interpretatione in the translation traditionally associated with Boethius, together with Boethius’s second and more extensive commentary on the work.

Boethius guides the reader through Aristotle’s treatment of:

• Names, verbs, and meaningful speech
• Signification and the relation between words and thought
• Affirmation and negation
• Truth and falsity
• Contradiction and contrariety
• Universal, particular, indefinite, and singular propositions
• Future contingents
• Possibility, impossibility, necessity, and contingency

The Aristotle text is integrated passage by passage with Boethius’s commentary, allowing the reader to move directly from the original logical proposition to its medieval Latin exposition. The volume also includes a glossary of important Boethian logical terminology developed in reference to the wider Nicholean Press Boethius lexicon.

The commentary printed here is Boethius’s major or second commentary (editio secunda / maior), transmitted in six books. The edition is designed as a reading and study text rather than a new critical edition, preserving the historical Latin while providing a clean and consistent modern typesetting.

For readers of Aristotle, Boethius, medieval philosophy, scholastic logic, Latin intellectual history, and the development of Western theories of language and meaning.