School texts
For centuries the Catholic schools taught by reading and expounding a few books: Aristotle's logic with Porphyry's Introduction, then his natural philosophy, metaphysics and ethics, Dionysius, Boethius, Peter Lombard's Sentences. They stand here in the order of the Paris arts statute of 19 March 1255: in the Latin the masters read, with St Thomas's commentary lectio by lectio, a public-domain English translation beside it, every passage with its Bekker number.
The old logic 3
Porphyry's Introduction, the Categories and On Interpretation, read in Boethius's Latin from the twelfth century on.
- Introduction (Isagoge) Isagoge
- Categories Praedicamenta
- On Interpretation Peri hermeneias
The new logic 4
The Analytics, the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations, which reached the Latin schools in the twelfth century.
- Prior Analytics Analytica priora
- Posterior Analytics Analytica posteriora
- Topics Topica
- Sophistical Refutations De sophisticis elenchis
To follow: the natural books, the Metaphysics and the Ethics with St Thomas's commentaries, Dionysius the Areopagite, Boethius, the Liber de causis and the Sentences.