Yes really - in Albertus' commentary on the Metaphysics, Book IV, tract 2 chapter 4.

Ideo significans substantiam rei est non esse aliud aliquid illud ipsum quod est rei diffinitio. What a mouthful.  The good news is that all of Albert's work is now online - some of it digitised, most of it in pdf image format.  Here.

I got round to digitising some of the advent and Christmas hymns from the book I mentioned.  The pages are below.  Most of them are new to Google but you will surely recognise no. 48 on p 64, 'Puer nobis nascitur' unto us a child is born.  I like the last verse - O et A et A et O cum cantibus in choro, cum canticis in organo, benedicamus domino.

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Thanks to Poldy for posting the Greek to the text from the Metaphysics (see post below) but I'm still a bit puzzled.  Here's Aristotle's Latin.

οὐδὲν γὰρ ἂν ἧττον ἦν ὁ χαλκὸς οὐδὲν τοῦ εἴδους

I recognise some words, but where is the negative?  Goodposter-Poldy translates this as 'bronze still would not have belonged to the form'.

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Here's another Latin text (link below). This time I do not have access to a nice cleaned up version. I made a valiant attempt, but any help with this would be appreciated.

http://uk.geocities.com/frege@btinternet.com/latin/bonaveternitate.htm

There was a post about medieval texts some months ago. For anyone interested, there is a page here ( Read more... )