Codex Vaticanus 253

Codex Vaticanus 253

Codex Vaticanus 253 is one of the most important manuscripts of the treatise On the Soul by Aristotle. It is designated by the symbol L. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century. It is written in Greek minuscule letters. The manuscript is not complete, it contains only III Book, I-II Books were lost. It belongs to the textual family λ, together with the manuscripts: E Fc Lc Kd P.

The manuscript was cited by Trendelenburg, Torstrik, Biehl, Apelt, and Ross in their critical editions of the treatise On the Soul. Currently it is housed at the Vatican Library (gr. 253) in Rome.

Other manuscripts

Further reading

  • Paweł Siwek, Aristotelis tractatus De anima graece et latine, Desclée, Romae 1965.