Munich. BSB clm. 14383
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Andrew of Cornwall
The manuscript is the only extant text containing the work of Andrew of Cornwall.
According to Robert Andrews (Andrews 1996):
- All that is known about Andrew of Cornwall derives from the record of his work surviving in ms Munchen, BSB clm. 14383, ff. 81ra-86ra of which contain Quaestiones super librum Sex Principiorum and ff. 86rb-92va Quaestiones super librum Porphyrii. Martin Grabmann provides the only published discussion of this author and these works. Grabmann dates the script to the beginning of the 14th century. This judgement can be corroborated by comparing the script to plate 95 in Thomson's Latin Bookhands, dated 1291 in England. The split ascender on the 'l' and other paleo-graphical evidence indicates this to be an English hand.
- Andrew of Cornwall is expressly identified as the author of the Quaestiones super librum Sex principiorum in its colophon (f. 86ra): "Expliciunt quaestiones super librum Sex principiorum datae a domino Andrea de Cornubia." The subsequent work, by the same scribe, has the names at the titulus (f. 86rb) and colophon (f. 92va) erased (perhaps an examination under ultraviolet light would reveal more). Grabmann, on the basis of similarities between the works, attributes them to the same author. Indeed, the author of the (Questiones super librum Porphyrii has certain peculiarities of expression which are echoed in the preceding commentary: "patet per ea quae dicta sunt in positione" (f. 85vb; cf. ff. 86va, 87va, 91vb, 93va); and the formulaic response to arguments is the same: "Ad primam rationem" etc.
