Authors/Walter Burley

• Questiones super librum peryarmenias (1301)

Primary sources

• Quaestiones circa tertium De anima (Questions on the third book of ‘De anima’) – before 1301. In Questions on the De anima by Magister Adam Burley and Dominus Walter Burley, ed. by E.A. Synan, Leiden: Brill, 1997.
• Quaestiones in librum Perihermeneias (Questions on ‘De Interpretatione’) 1301.
  • In Gonville-Caius 645/668 ff. 60-76 (C) and Gonville-Caius 512/543 (G). Quaestiones datae a Magistro Waltero de Burley super librum perihermeneias, anno domini m°ccc°p°, establishing the date as 1301. It may be Burley's earliest work, according to Ottman and Wood, p.6). Edited by Stephen Brown ("Walter Burley’s Quaestiones in librum Perihermenias", Franciscan Studies 34 (1974) 200-295).
• Tractatus de suppositionibus (Treatise on [the kinds of] suppositions) – 1302. In S.F. Brown, “Walter Burleigh's Treatise De suppositionibus and its Influence on William of Ockham”, Franciscan Studies, 32 (1972): 15–64.
• Tractatus super Praedicamenta Aristotelis (Treatise on Aristotle's Categories, or Middle Commentary on the Categories) – before 1310. Cambridge, Peterhouse, ms. 184, fols. 171ra–189vb — provisional edition on the basis of all the four mss. by Alessandro D. Conti.
• Commentarius in librum Perihermeneias (Commentary on ‘De interpretatione’, or Middle Commentary on De interpretatione) – before 1310
  • The so-called "Middle Commentary" on the Perihermenias, in Gonville and Caius 448/409, ff. 32a-56b, St. Johns College 100, ff. 67ra-73rb amd British Museum, Royal 12 F XIX, ff. 14ra-23ra (also incomplete in the mutilated Cambridge ms. Gonville and Caius 139/79). It is so-called because its length is between the Quaestiones and the "late edition" of 1337, and because it is probably to be dated between the other two. In S.F. Brown, “Walter Burley's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Perihermeneias”, Franciscan Studies, 33 (1973): 45–134.
• Quaestiones super librum Posteriorum (Questions on the Posterior Analytics) – before 1310. Ed. by M.C. Sommers, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2000.
• Expositio super libros Topicorum Aristotelis (On Aristotle's Topics) – before 1310
• Expositio libri De anima (On ‘De anima’) – before 1310. Bibl. Apost. Vat., ms. Vat. Lat. 2151, fols. 1ra-88rb.
• Expositio librorum Physicorum (On the Physics) – before 1316. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, ms. 448, pp. 172–543.
• De potentiis animae (On Faculties of the Soul). In M.J. Kitchel, “The De potentiis animae of Walter Burley”, Mediaeval Studies, 33 (1971): 85–113.
• De relativis (On Relatives). In H. Shapiro – M.J. Kiteley, “Walter Burleigh's De relativis”, Franciscan Studies, 22 (1962): 155–171.
• Expositio in libros octo Physicorum Aristotelis (On the eighth book of Aristotle's Physics) – after 1324. Ed. Venetiis 1501. Reprinted Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 1972. Descript. 267 leaves ; 25 cm.
  • "There is no sign in Burley's works prior to 1324 that he regarded Ockham as an opponent, but beginning with the prologue to his final commentary on the Physics (a work presumably rewritten in response to Ockham's criticisms), his main writings on logic and metaphysics always feature an analysis of Ockham's views together with a serious attempt to refute his arguments." SEP
  • "The problem of universals is not even mentioned in his first commentary on the Physics (before 1316), but receives extensive treatment in the prologue of his second commentary on the Physics, where he quotes, analyses, and rejects arguments advanced by the Venerabilis Inceptor. Second, Burley's final commentaries on the Physics, Ars Vetus, and the Tractatus de universalibus contain critiques of Ockham's views on universals, truth, and categories, as well as replies to his arguments against the standard moderate realist doctrine.[ibid]
• Tractatus de formis (Treatise on Forms) – after 1324. Ed. by J.D. Scott, München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1970.
• De puritate artis logicae. Tractus longior (On the purity of the art of logic. Longer treatise) – between 1325 and 1328. With a Revised Edition of the Tractatus brevior, ed. by Ph. Boehner, St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1955.
• Expositio librorum Ethicorum (On Ethics) – 1334
• Expositio super Artem Veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis (On Porphyry's and Aristotle's Old Art [of Logic]) – 1337. Ed. Venetiis 1509. This work is made up of the following commentaries:
  • On Porphyry's ‘Isagoge’ in M. von Perger, “Walter Burley's Expositio vetus super librum Porphyrii. An edition”, Franciscan Studies 59 (2001): 237–269.
  • On the Categories in M. von Perger, “Walter Burley's Expositio vetus super librum Praedicamentorum. An Edition”, Franciscan Studies 61 (2003): 55–95.
  • On the Book on the Six Principles
  • On ‘De interpretatione’
• Expositio super Universalia Porphyrii, (1337), provisional edition in M. Vittorini, Predicabili e categorie nell'ultimo commento di Walter Burley all'Isagoge di Porfirio, Ph.D. diss., University of Salerno, Academic Year 2004–05, Appendice, pp. 429–495.
• Tractatus de universalibus (Treatise on Universals) – after 1337. Ed. by H.-U. Wöhler, Leipzig: Verlag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999.
• Expositio super libros Politicorum Aristotelis (On Aristotle's Politics) – 1343

See also

• Walter Burley