{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0732.tlg011.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg011.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg011.local001","title":"De anima libri mantissa","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alexander of Aphrodisias","authorityName":"ALEXANDER Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","editors":["Ivo Bruns"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Praeter Commentaria Scripta Minora","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1887","volume":"1","series":"Supplementum Aristotelicum","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/p1supplementumar02akaduoft/page/n123/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alexander Of Aphrodisias. 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