Proclus on Plato's Timaeus

Proclus the Successor

Proclus (412–485 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher known as "The Successor" (Diadochus) because he headed the Platonic Academy in Athens.

On the Timaeus

of Plato

A thicker volume

original Latin: "Codex spissior"

715.

This refers to the manuscript's number in the Colbert collection.

8 leaves of the seventh quire and 2 leaves of the 51st quire seem to be missing

original Latin: "videntur deesse fol. 8. quaternionis septimi, et fol. 2. quaternionis 51." A quire or quaternion is a gathered set of folded pages.

Paper manuscript written in the 14th century

original Latin: "cod chart. 14 sae scriptus" 1839. Five books of the commentaries of Proclus the Successor on Plato's Timaeus. original Latin: "Procli Diadochi commentariorum in Platonis Timæum libri V." 15th century. Paper. 522 leaves. (Colbert collection, no. 715.) M.

1839.

Volume of 522 leaves

original French: "Volume de 522 Feuillets"

November 18, 1885.