De vita et moribus philosophorum

De vita et moribus philosophorum ('Lives and Manners of the Philosophers')[1] is an anonymous Latin biographical dictionary of 132 ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and other luminaries from Thales of Miletus in the 6th century BC to Priscian in the 6th century AD.

[2] It was written in about 1317–1320 and draws heavily on Henricus Aristippus's Latin translation of the Greek Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius.

It was formerly attributed to Walter Burley, but is now recognized as anonymous.

[3] There are over 150 manuscript copies of De vita et moribus philosophorum, mostly from France and Italy.

[1] Two German translations, one by Hans Lobenzweig [de] and another by Anton Sorg, had appeared by 1490.

First page of the De vita from a 15th-century illuminated manuscript from Milan