''On Memory'' (

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: ''De memoria et reminiscentia'') is one of the short treatises that make up

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's '' Parva Naturalia''. It is frequently published together, and read together, with Aristotle's ''

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, ''Aristotle On Memory'', second edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006,
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*David Bloch, ''Aristotle on Memory and Recollection: Text, Translation, Interpretation, and Reception in Western Scholasticism'', Leiden: Brill, 2007,

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