Oxford. Balliol. 206

206 DUNS SCOTUS 183; 172.h.7

A.D. 1462-3. 270 ff. 17x12 in. 52 lines. Collation: a—n8 | o—s8 I t—z8 &8 s8 = 8 est8 amen8 A-E8. Signatures and catchwords. Same hand and ornament as MS 202. The initial is lost from 1, together with a leaf before 105, doubtless with initial and border, and a blank after 141, but a handsome initial remains on 143, with wide floral border round two sides of the text. The numbers of 'paraffi' and headline-capitals are entered as in MS 205, but separately.

20 fo. et dicitur esse.

• 1- 104. [DUNS SCOTUS, Lectura in iii Sententiarum] (Circa di)stinccionem primam (tercii lib)ri queritur pri(mo ut)rum sit possi(bile nat)u-ram huma(nam per)sonaliter uni(ri verbo d)ivino. Quod non. Primo quia actus purus et infinitus—nec immediate attingens deum. Explicit Lectura completa Doctoris subtilis in universitate Parisiensi super tercium librum etc. as in MS 202, but the date is given as sexagesimo secundo, decimo die mensis decembris.
• 105-41v. [Reportatio III A, beg. imperfect in dist. i, q. 1 (Wadding xi. 420b)] -tudinis essendi in centro sed quantum ad negacionem possibilitatis. . . . Ends with dist. xvii, q. 2: oracio exaudita in re petita. Explicit lectura incompleta Doctoris subtilis in Universitate Parisiensi super tercium librum etc. as in MS 202, but the date is sexagesimo secundo, in vigilia sancti Bartholomei apostoli (23 August).
• 142 is blank.
• 143-269v. [Reportatio IV B] Utrum possibile sit creaturam respectu producendi per creacionem habere aliquam efficienciam. Quod sic. Augustinus super Johannem omel. 80 quanta virtus aque—quia manet culpa perpetuo Amen. Explicit Lectura Doctoris subtilis in universitate Parisiensi super quartum librum etc. as in MS. 202, but the date is sexagesimo tercio, Mensis Decembris die secundo. Deo sit laus et gloria in secula seculorum Amen.
• 270 is blank.

The Lectura is Stegmuller, Sent. no. 429, the Reportatio seems to be no. 423. Nine quaestiones of the Lectura are printed by BaliC, op. cit. 321-51, three from the twin MS, Merton Coll, 62, and six from ours (55v-56 and 102-4v). At the foot of 1 (there was no old fly-leaf) is: Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon' j ex dono Willelmi Gray Eliensis episcopi. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Oxford Balliol MS