Robert Kilwardby, Notule Libri Priorum

Every educated person in the Middle Ages learned logic, which was then always some version of the theory of the syllogism. But until the rise of the universities in the thirteenth century no scholar in Christendom had written a comprehensive commentary on the work of Aristotle's that contains that theory, namely the Prior Analytics.

Robert Kilwardby (d.1279) was an English scholar who lectured on logic and grammar at the University of Paris in the 1230s. His lectures earned him widespread fame in Europe. Throughout the thirteenth century and up to the sixteenth,Kilwardby's lectures on Aristotle's Prior Analytics were considered to contain the authoritative exposition of Aristotle's syllogistic logic. They were published at Venice in 1499.

Written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered, Kilwardby's commentary is the work of a penetrating philosophical intellect intent not only on understanding Aristotle's logic but on pushing it to its limits. The present edition, in two volumes, contains the first critical edition of the lectures, together with an English translation. Part 1 contains an extensive Introduction placing Kilwardby's work within its historical context, and demonstrating its importance both as an exposition of Aristotle's text and as an original contribution to philosophical logic. It also contains Lectures 1-38. Part 2 contains Lectures 39-77 and the comprehensive indexes.

Paul Thom, Adjunct Professor, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry,, The University of Sydney,John Scott,Independent Scholar,

Paul Thom
A graduate of Sydney and Oxford Universities, Paul Thom has published widely on the history of ancient and medieval Arabic and Latin logic. He has also published on the philosophy of the performing arts. He has held teaching positions at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne and at the Australian National University. He served for 10 years as Dean of Arts, first at the Australian National University, then at Southern Cross University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

John Scott
I began my work as a medievalist with an edition, translation and study of William of Malmesbury's History of Glastonbury. Subsequently I taught at University of Tasmania and Macquarie University. I translated and published Hugh of Poitiers' History of Vezelay. I then began a long association with William of Ockham, working with a colleague on a translation of his Work of Ninety Days and then on his long Dialogus. OUP published the first volume of the latter in 2011, and we hav

John Scott
I began my work as a medievalist with an edition, translation and study of William of Malmesbury's History of Glastonbury. Subsequently I taught at University of Tasmania and Macquarie University. I translated and published Hugh of Poitiers' History of Vezelay. I then began a long association with William of Ockham, working with a colleague on a translation of his Work of Ninety Days and then on his long Dialogus. OUP published the first volume of the latter in 2011, and we have almost completed a second volume. As well as work on Kilwardby I am also working on a translation of a treatise by Alan of Lille.