Frankfurt-am-Main Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Lat. quart. 4
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1. fols. 1v-8v: List of chapters of the William of Ockham, Dialogus;
2.fols 9-12r: blank
3.fol. 12v: Prologue otherwise found only in We;
4.fols. 13r-238r: 1 Dial. (1 Dial. books 2-7 begin at 19v, 35v, 42r, 56v, 84r, 168v);
5.fols. 238v-258v: 2 Dial.;
6.fols. 258v-272v: Compendium errorum Johannis XXII;
7.fols. 272v-396v: 3.1 and 3.2 Dial.;
8.fols. 397r-450v: Octo questiones.
From the British Academy description:
- Published Information: See Karin Bredehorn and Gerhardt Powitz, Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Gruppe Manuscripta Latina in Kataloge der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt am Main, 1979), pp. 7-9: about 1460. See also Ockham, Opera Politica, ed. H.S. Offler, vol. 1 (edn. 2), p. 5 (F), and vol. 4, p. 8 (F), and G. Knysh, Ockham Perspectives (Winnipeg, 1994) pp. 15-17, 37. "At most no more than a couple of decades earlier than ed. [Pz], F [Fr] is the work of a careless scribe, who often did not bother to ensure that what he wrote made sense; many of his blunders are too crass to warrant printing" (Offler, OP, vol. 4, p. 9). (Of course, the scribe may have been carefully following a faulty exemplar, correcting where he could.)
- Observations: In gatherings of 12 folios. Text written in the same hand throughout. Marginalia in a number of different hands. There are some corrections or additions to the text, some of which seem to be in the hand that wrote the text.
- Fr includes a "prologue" otherwise found only in We. It is written in Fr on the second column of the back of a folio (12v) preceded by several blank folios, facing the first page of the text. That is, it was written onto the back of the first gathering, containing a list of chapters, which may have been made after the text (otherwise it would not have had so much blank space).
- In 3.2 Dial. 3.15 a passage is omitted (=Ly fol. 269v b2-40); this omission is not supplied. Another passage is omitted in 3.2 Dial. 3.16. After "antistitem" (=Ly fol. 270v a23), which is the end of many MSS of 3.2 Dial., there is a gap of about 10 lines and the text continues (389r) with the second omitted passage (=Ly fol. 270r b17-56). At the end of this passage, after a small indent, the text continues (389va line 26) with the rest of the sentence following "antistitem" and goes on to the end of the text as found in MzPzLy. Thus the text of chapter 16 is out of order, with only some white space to warn the reader. The text continues to the end of Mz Pz Ly, but (unlike Di) without the chapter summaries found in Ly and without the last sentence found in Di and Ly. It appears that the text originally ended at "antistitem" (or rather, since Fr continues with Octo questiones, the exemplar from which Fr got 3.2 Dial. originally ended "antistitem") and that more material has been added, possibly from Mz or Pz or some kindred MS: see End of 3.2 Dial.
- Collation shows that in Part 1 Fr is often part of the family that includes Ca --- see here; but often it seems akin to the family that includes Ba --- see here (a passage several lines long). In some places the text seems to have been revised rather freely, if not by the scribe then by someone whose version the scribe follows. See 1 Dial. 4.30, passages in pink. Sometimes the readings of Fr make no sense. (These characteristics may all have been inherited from its lost exemplar, which the scribe of Fr may have copied faithfully.)
- In 3.1 Dial. Fr seems fairly close to Mz.
