Oxford. Balliol. 205

205 DUNS SCOTUS 183; 171.H.6

A.D. 1462-3. 280 ff. 17 x 12 in. 52lines. Collation: a-y8 z10 | 1-13⁸. Signatures and catchwords. Same hand and ornament as MS 202, with an initial to each distinctio in gold, with flourishing and grotesque filling in dull blue. 1 has lost its initial and half its two-sided border, and before 187 a leaf which no doubt had a border has been cut out. The number of 'paraffi' in the text of each quire and of capitals in its headlines is entered as a single total in small arabic figures in the lower right-hand corner of its last page. 2° fo. non habet.

• l-185v. [DUNS SCOTUS, Reportatio I A (?)] (Circa) prologum libri senten-(cia)rum primo queritur (utr)um deus sub propria (ra)cione deitatis possit (es)se per se subiectum alicuius (sc)iencie. Videtur quod non. Omne scibile—finem suum qui est beatitudo sua ad quam nos perducat qui est benedictus in secula amen. Explicit Lectura etc. as in MS 202, but with Parisiensi for Oxoniensi, and the date sexagesimo tercio, decimo sexto die mensis julii. 186 is blank.
• 187-287. [Reportatio II, beg. imperfect in dist. i, q. 1] nisi intellectus infinitus ergo secundum intencionem illius doctoris quem sustmet intel-leccio una—ideo omnia dependent ad deum qui est benedictus in secula seculorum amen. Explicit Lectura etc. as before, but with the date sexagesimo secundo, vicesimo nono die mensis julii. 287v-9v blank.

MSS 205, 206 form a set of the Reportatio in libros Sententiarum, written a.d. 1462-3 by a scribe who already in 1451-5 had made another copy, Merton Coll. 59 and 61-63. The text of these two copies has been studied by F. Pelster in Zeitschrift fur kathol. Theologie li (1927) 65-80, and by C. Balic, Les Commentates de Jean Duns Scot sur les quatre livres des Sentences (Louvain, 1927); the latter on pp. 311-20 cites our MS as D for the last two quaestiones (286v-7). Book i is Stegmuller, Sent. no. 425, ii, no. 423.

At the foot of 1 (there was no old fly-leaf) is: Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon' /ex dono Willelmi Gray Eliensis episcopi. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Oxford Balliol MS