B. de l'Arsenal MS Lat. 517
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Jump to navigationJump to searchContents: Petrus de Alliaco (d'Ailly), Abbreviatio, fols. 1-15; William of Ockham, 1 Dial., fols. 17r-238r; 2 Dial., fols. 238r-257r; 3.2 Dial., 257r-303v. 1 Dial. books 2-7 begin at 25v, 46v, 54r, 71r, 96v, 172v.
From the British Academy description:
- Published Information: See Martin, Henry, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, t. I (Paris: Plon, 1885), p. 366 . Dates MS to the 15th century.
- Observations: In three legible hands. One scribe wrote fols. 17r to 69v (col. a, line 10), another took over briefly to 73r (col. a, line 9), the first scribe then resumed to 75v (col. b, line 8), and a third scribe finished the Dialogus and wrote the Abbreviatio, which is bound at the front of the volume. 1 Dial. ends and 2 Dial. begins on the same page (238r), 2 Dial. ends and 3.2 Dial. begins on the same page (257r); the three parts always made one MS. The tabula (ending with a blank folio) is a gathering of 16 folios, the rest of the MS is in gatherings of 12 folios counting from 17r. First page of Dialogus is decorated; see 17r.
- Collation shows that in 1 Dial. 3 [the MS] is close to Pb and in 1 Dial. 7 [the MS] is close to Ca. Perhaps when at 75v the copyist changed the exemplar also changed, or perhaps Pb and Ca changed exemplars. See Change of exemplar, change of handwriting. A shorter text than the printed edition -- see End of 3.2 Dial.
- According to Ian Murdoch, Critical Edition of Pierre D'Ailly's Abbreviatio Dyalogi Okan (Thesis, Monash University, 1981), p. xlvi, the watermarks suggest that [it] was written "probably not before about 1430 and possibly not for thirty years or so later".
- On this witness, especially in relation to 2 Dial., see also Ballweg. Ballweg's information that the watermark on some pages of [the MS] is the same as that on some pages of Pz implies that [the MS] could be contemporary with (even later than) the 1476 edition.
