L'auteur, la compilation et la division des sciences dans le Compendium philosophie ou Compilatio de libris naturalibus Aristotelis, une encyclopédie du XIIIe siècle

Emmanuelle Kuhry (1, 2, 3)

1 Centre de Médiévistique Jean-Schneider
2 MSH Lorraine - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Lorraine
3 IRHT - Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes

Probably written in the middle of the XIIIth century by an anonymous compiler, the Compilatio de libris naturalibus Aristotelis et aliorum quorundam philosophorum, also known as Compendium philosophie, soon received from scholars the qualification of «medieval encyclopedia». To what extent is this qualification relevant for this text? In this very short paper, we will try to test this definition through the approach of two aspects: the author’s method of compilation and his way to structure the text in connection with the classification of the sciences which is given in the Compilatio’s prologue, and which is inspired from the structure of the aristotelician natural corpus.

Mots clés: Aristotle; classification of sciences; medieval encyclopedias

Mots clés: Aristote; division des sciences; encyclopédies médiévales

Domaines: Histoire; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Emmanuelle Kuhry. L'auteur, la compilation et la division des sciences dans le Compendium philosophie ou Compilatio de libris naturalibus Aristotelis, une encyclopédie du XIIIe siècle. Auctor et auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris, Proceedings of the VIth Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee (Benevento-Naples, November 9-13, 2010), SISMEL, pp.567-581, 2014, 978-88-8450-554-5. ⟨halshs-00864772⟩