Munich. BSB clm. 14779

Donatus, Aelius / Porphyrius / Aristoteles: Commentarius in artem sive editionem primam Donati

Unattributed commentaries on the Isagoge and De interpretatione which are closely related to the Paris manuscript’s texts of Abelard.

The Isagoge commentary is edited in Y. Iwakuma, '"Vocales", or early nominalists', Traditio 47 (1992), 37-111 at pp. 74-100; the De interpretatione commentary is unedited, but there are extracts from it in J. Marenbon, 'Glosses and commentaries on the Categories and De interpretatione before Abelard', Appendix, in J. Fried (ed.), Dialetik und Rhetoric im frueheren und hohen Mittelalter (Munich, 1966), pp. 21-49.

ALTERUM VERO (17.2). Dixi quod in utroque contingit fieri magis, sed tamen illud alterum non contingit fieri determinate, quia potest impediri per casum vel per utrumlibet. Hic innuit fieri talem divisionem : utrumlibet alia quae habent se aequaliter ad affirmationem et negationem ut ‘haec futuet’ ‘haec non futuet’, alia quae habent se ad alterum magis ut ‘haec fricabit’ ‘haec non fricabit' magis habet se ad alterum, id est ad fricare, quia Carnotensis est. Similiter in casualibus habet se aequaliter ad utrumque, ut ‘Petrus claudet ostium’ ‘P. non claudet ostium’; magis habet se ad alterum, ut ‘P. cadet in latrina<m>’ ‘P. non cadet in latrina <m>’ magis habet se <ad> alterum, id est ad cadere, quia parvus, longanimitas vero magna.

"THE ONE RATHER. I have said that in both one is more likely to occur, but nevertheless that one does not occur determinately, because it may be impeded by chance or by utrumlibet. Here he indicates that there is a division such as the following: there are utrumlibets which are equally likely to result in affirmation and negation, such as 'she will fuck/ 'she will not fuck,’ others which are more likely to turn out one way rather than another, such as 'she will rub you down,’ 'she will not rub you down,’ which is more likely to turn out one way, that is to rub, because she is from Chartres. Likewise, chances are equally likely to turn out either way, such as 'Peter will close the door/ 'P. will not close the door': more likely to turn out one way, such as 'P. will fall into the toilet/ 'P. will not fall into the toilet/ which is more likely to turn out one way, that is to fall 'into the toilet' because he is small, though his patience is great.”

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