Abstract

© 2016 Vita e Pensiero/Pubblicazioni dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The works of Aristotle constituted the cornerstone of education at the early University of Louvain's Faculty of Arts. Among the lectures on the corpus aristotelicum, composed before the end of the 15th century, one must mention the commentaries by Peter de Rivo, master of Arts at the pedagogy of The Castle, as well as sets of lecture notes copied by students that report the courses given by their masters. This article presents a survey and an introduction to the general features of the known 15th-century collegedictaten on logic and natural philosophy, offering data that may help in drawing of a fuller picture of the teaching of Aristotle at the Louvain Faculty of Arts during its early years.