This page contains a list of medieval and Renaissance commentaries on Aristotle’s Ethics and works on moral philosophy containing a corresponding section on Aristotelian ethics. The list consists mainly of links to digitized photocopic reproductions of works on the internet. They have been digitized by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München (BSB), Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), E-rara.ch -project of the Swiss libraries, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (HAB), Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden (JAB), Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), Universitätbibliothek Tübingen (UT), and Universitat de Granada (UG). The list follows an approximate chronological order.

Most of the links are also listed in Bibliography of Neo-Latin Texts on the Web by Dana F. Sutton. For more information on some of the authors, see Charles H. Lohr’s “Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries” in Renaissance Quarterly: A-B, C, D-F, G-K, L-M, N-Ph, Pi-Sm, So-Z. The changes in this page are posted as comments, which can be subscribed as an RSS-feed by clicking the appropriate icon on the sidebar. Please feel free to post your own comments, too.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! Instead of early printings, scholars should always prefer modern editions and reliable manuscripts, if available, at least for two main reasons: 1.  printed versions of medieval works are often abridgements of their original and they may contain later emendations and are not always based on the best manuscript tradition; 2.  even the printed versions supervised by the authors themselves occasionally contain misprints and other material originating from the printer.

Albert the Great, Ethica, Paris 1891 on the website of the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Thomas Aquinas, Sententia libri Ethicorum, vol. 1 and vol. 2, Rome 1969 (BNF). The text of the edition is also available in S. Thomae de Aquino opera omnia by Fundación Tomás de Aquino.

Gerardus Odonis, Sententia et expositio cumque omnibus Geraldi Odonis super libros ethicorum Aristotelis cum textu ejusdem (and also here), Venice 1500 (BNF).

Walter Burley, Super libros ethicorum, Venice 1521 (UG).

Jean Buridan, Questiones super X libros Aristotelis ad Nichomachum, Paris 1489. Digitized by Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Commentarius in priores V libros Ethicorum Aristotelis secundum Buridanum et in librum I Oeconomicorum (a 15th century manuscript, BSB).

Nicolaus de Orbellis, Cursus librorum philosophiae naturalis [Aristotelis] secundum viam Scoti. Digital reproduction of Basel 1494 edition in Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; Basel 1503 edition in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. The section on ethics is found after the natural philosophy and the metaphysics.

Aristotle/Averroës, Ethica ad Nicomachum, Venice 1473 (BSB).

Leonardo Bruni/Galeotto Ricasoli, Isagoge in Aristotelis librum De moribus ad Eudemum, Cologne, ca. 1470 (BSB).

Donato Acciaiuoli, Expositio super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis, Florence 1478 (BNF). Expositio super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis, Florence 1478 (Biblioteca Geral de Universidade de Coimbra).

Petrus Berchorius/Johann Beckenhub, Repertorium morale, P. 1-3, Bd.: 2, Nürnberg, ca. 1489 (BSB).

Aristotle/Jaques Lefèvre d’Etaples, Decem librorum Moralium Aristotelis tres conuersiones, Paris 1497 (HAB).

Aristotle (transl. John Argyropoulos), Opus Aristotelis de Moribus Alias Ethicorum, Leipzig 1504 (BSB). Aristotle’s original Greek text has been made available in Perseus Digital Library.

Gregor Breitkopf, Breviuscula facilimaque commentatio in Parvulum philosophie moralis, Leipzig 1504 (HAB).

Virgilius Wellendorffer, Moralogium, Leipzig 1509 (BSB).

Josse Clichtove, Dogma moralium philosophorum, compendiose et studiose collectum, Strasbourg 1512 (HAB).

Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples, Compendium philosophiae moralis ex Aristotelis ethicorum libris contractum, Vienna 1513 (BSB).

Marko Marulic, De institutione bene vivendi, Basel 1513 (BSB).

Pierre Tartaret, Petri Tatareti in sex libros Ethicorum questio[n]es adiecto textu Aristotelis, Basel 1514 (BSB).

Johannes Romming, Parvulus Philosophiae moralis, ad Philosophi aemulationem exaratus, Nürnberg 1516 (BSB).

Jacques Almain, Moralia optime recognita cum additionibus, Paris 1518 (UG).

Jacobus van Hoogstraten, Margarita moralis philosophie, Cologne 1521 (BSB).

John Mair, Ethica, Paris 1530 (BSB).

Eustratius Nicaenus, Eustratii et aliorum insignorum peripatericorum commentaria in libros decem Aristotelis De moribus ad Nicomachum una cum textu suis in locis adiecto. Venice 1536 (Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena).

Philipp Melanchthon, Enarratio Aliqvot Librorum Ethicorum Aristotelis Primi, Secundi, Tertij, & Qvinti ad intelligendum Aristotelem vtilis, Wittenberg 1545 (JAB). A 1535 edition is also available and the volume 16 of Corpus reformatorum, which contains several Ethics-commentaries by Melanchthon, has been digitized by Google Books.

Aristotle/Joachim Périon, Aristotelis De moribvs, quae ethica nominantur, ad Nicomachum filium (transl. and commentary), Basel 1542 (BSB).

Jakob Schegk, In X libros Ethicorum annotationes, Basel 1550 (BSB).

Hieronymus Wildenberg, Totius philosophiae humanae in tres partes, rationalem, naturalem et moralem, digestio, Basel 1555 (BSB).

Samuel Heiland / Kasper Herter, Quaestiones in libros Ethicorum Aristotelis, Tübingen, 1562-1563 (UT).

Simone, Simoni, Commentariorum in Ethica Aristotelis ad Nicomachum liber primus, Geneva 1567 (BSB).

Achatius Curaeus, Erotemata in Libellum Aristotelis de virtutibus & vitiis cum virtute maxime pugnantibus Gedani 1567 (BSB).

Crisostomo Javelli, In universam moralem Aristotelis, Platonis et christianam philosophiam, Lyon 1568 (BNF).

Crisostomo Javelli, Totius rationalis, naturalis, divinae ac moralis philosophiae compendium, Lyon 1568 (BNF).

Erhard Hertel, Epitome Ethices Aristotelicae ad Nicomachum, Leipzig 1575 (BSB).

Joachim Camerarius, Ethicorum Aristotelis Nicomachiorum explicatio accuratissima, Frankfurt 1578 (ULB Sachsen-Anhalt).

Samuel Heiland, Ethica ad Nicomachum, libri decem ; breviter et perspicue per quaestiones expositi, Tübingen, 1579 (BSB).

Lambert Daneau, Ethices christianae libri tres. Geneve 1582 (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, doi:10.3931/e-rara-633).

Peter Martyr Vermigli, In Aristotelis ethicorum ad Nicomachum librum primum, secundum et initium tertii commentarius doctissimus, Zürich 1582 (BSB).

Owen Günther, Ethica ad Nicomachum, libri X. ; latinis thesibus comprehensi, Helmstedt 1585 (BSB).

Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius, Ethica ex Aristotele et aliis repetita, Frankfurt am Main 1589 (BSB).

Johann Roding, Ethica, Frankfurt am Main 1589 (BSB).

Johannes Rieger, Ethicorum libri duo, Frankfurt am Main 1590 (ULB Sachsen-Anhalt).

Zacharias Beutherus / Johannes Wessel, Theses de virtute morali ex II Ethicorum ad Nicomachum, Wittenberg 1593 (BSB).

In libros Ethicorum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum aliquot Conimbricensis cursus disputationes, Cologne 1596 (BSB).

Johannes Wessel / Erasmus Unruh, De amicitia, disputatio ethica, Wittenberg 1596 (BSB).

Elias Ehinger / Thomas Wegelin, Theses de causis virtutum, Wittenberg ca. 1596 (BSB).

Theophilus Golius, Epitome doctrinae moralis, Strasbourg 1597 (BSB).

John Case, Speculum quaestionum moralium in universam Aristotelis philosophi summi Ethicen, Frankfurt am Main 1597 (ULB Sachsen-Anhalt).

In Libros Ethicorvm Aristotelis Ad Nicomachvm, Aliqvot Conimbricensis cursus disputationes, In quibus praecipua quaedam Ethicae disciplinae capita continentur, Cologne 1599 (BSB).

Zacharias Sommer / Johann Adam, Disputatio ethica de vera fortitudine, Wittenberg 1599 (BSB).

Michael Schön / Johannes Matthiae, Disputatio ethica de virtute heroica, eiusque vitio contrario, quod est feritas, Jena 1600 (BSB).

Andreas Ursinus / Kaspar Suevus, Disputatio ethica de gradibus delictorum, Wittenberg 1602 (BSB).

Johann von Hoeckelshoven, Practicorum, sive philosophiae practicae libri III, Frankfurt am Main 1604 (SLUB).

Bartholomäus Keckermann, Systema ethicae, Hanau 1607 (SLUB).

Johann Baptist Weiganmeir / Jacob Ulrich Kern, Disputatio ethica de iustitia, Tübingen 1621 (BSB).

Johann Baptist Weiganmeir / Johann Jacob Zobel, Disputatio ethica de iustitia et iure, Tübingen 1625 (BSB).