# Aristotle: Works [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 12953\) ## Commentary Aristotle: Works c. 1260 Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 12953\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris This manuscript, illuminated in Paris about 1260, contains many Aristotelian texts. Folio 276r, illustrated here, shows the opening of De Differentia Spiritus et Animae by Costa ben Luca \(Qusta ibn Luqa, 820–912\), a Melkite Christian of Greek origin from Lebanon, physician, scientist and translator. \(This text is sometimes wrongly attributed to Aristotle himself.\) It is illustrated with a miniature of the Tree of Jesse. The manuscript was made with wide margins for glossing in the classroom. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()