ABSTRACT
The Cursus Conimbricensis was meant to be a comprehensive set of textbooks. It consists of the serial publication of eight volumes containing commentaries on the complete works of Aristotle, except for the Metaphysics. The Conimbricenses published these volumes between 1592 and 1606 and, with the exception of the insertion of the treatise De Anima Separata by Alvares and a small treatise by Magalhães in the commentary on the De Anima, they were presented as a collective work without any indication of authorship. They were intended as textbooks for the Colleges of the Arts: that this was their purpose should be emphasized, because it implies all the difficulties that the authors encountered during its thirty-or forty-year gestation.
