Oxford. Balliol. 208

208 DUNS SCOTUS 186; 353.N.17

14th cent, ii+184 ff., with early foliation by an unidentified editor (see MS 302). 15 x 10 ¼ in. 2 cols, of 60 lines. Collation: i-ii12 iii16 [ iv2 | v-ix12 x6 | a-e12 f14+1, I leaf. Signatures and catchwords. Good university hand (Paris?), with paragraph-marks and headlines in alternate red and blue; capitals alternately in blue and red, flourished respectively in red and dull blue, always with a line of red and blue saw-pattern running the full height of the page. On 1, 43, and 109 are initials with three-sided borders of conventional foliage (109 has a hound pursuing a hare in the lower margin), good work in gold and colours. Once bound with MS 302, as will appear. 20 fo. posse prestari.

• 1-40v. (1) [WILLELMUS DE ALNWICK ofm] Circa distinccionem primam secundi libri queritur utrum primus actus creandi precise possit convenire tribus personis. Quod non videtur—ipsa vero a nulla in racione cause. Expliciunt addiciones secundi libri magistri Johannis Duns extracte per magistrum Gillermum de Alniwik o. f. m. de lectura Parisi-ensi et Oxoniensi predicti magistri Johannis.
  • Then follows a Tabula eiusdem secundi super questiones addicionum, at the end of which is: Expliciunt tituli questionum lecture Parisiensis super secundum etc. The editor adds at the beginning: Incipit secundus de reportacione Uxonenssi et Parisienssi doctoris fratris Johannis Scoti de ordine minorum, and at the end: Summa omnium questionum huius secundi quinquaginta sex.
  • Cf. C. BaliC (cited on MS 205), especially 93-101; he prints three quaestiones, ibid. 264-320, with the readings of our MS. Stegmuller, Sent. no. 427. L. Meier OFM in MARS iii (1954) 242 quotes an identical colophon from Berlin lat. fol. 928, and it recurs in Vatican lat. 876.
• 41-42v. (2) [JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS OFM] Questio loycalis. Utrum omne intrinsecum deo sit omnino idem essencie divine circumscripta quacumque consideracione intellectus—deus autem summe simplex est.
  • Printed in the Opera, ed. Wadding (Lyons, 1639) iii 441-8 as the Quaestio prima de formalitatibus, from Vatican lat. 876, where it follows art. 1 as it does here.
• 43-108v. (3) [Ordinatio II] Creacionem rerum etc. Circa secundum librum in quo ut dictum est in lectione tractat magister de deo—seculorum Amen. Explicit ordinacio super librum secundum Sentenciarum fratris Johannis Duns Oxoniis fratrum minorum.
  • A Table of questiones follows, at end: Explicit tabula secundi libri Sent, de ordinacione. The editor adds at the beginning: Incipit secundus ordinariua fratris Johannis Scoti doctoris subtilis, at the end: Summa omnium questionum huius secundi Scoti de ordinacione sexaginta quattuor.
  • This and the next are printed in Wadding's edn., vols, vi and vii; Stegmuller, Sent. no. 421. The text jumps after 96 from dist. xiv, q. 2 to dist. xxvi, and the editor notes: Nil deficit; vade ad primam reportacionem et invenies ibi alias questiones scilicet a distinccione 14" usque ad 25"" inclusive et postea redeas hie. Hoc autem invenies in a° 2" (articulo secundo ?) folio 160 c, A later hand comments: Deficit hie a distinccione 14" usque ad d. 26am.
• 109-83v. (4) [Ordinatio III] Circa incarnacionem quero primo de possibilitate utrum possibile fuerit naturam humanam uniri verbo in unitate suppositi. Videtur quod non—seculorum amen. Explicit liber tercius subtilis doctoris.
  • Tituli questionum follow. The editor adds at the beginning: Incipit tercius Doctoris Scoti, to the colophon: Scoti, after the Table: In libro tercio Scoti sunt questiones sexaginte quinque, and also inserts rubrics in the Table. The text has been carefully corrected; among the marginalia are (mv, 113) Opinio War'.
• 184 (the original fly-leaf) has on the verso, in a contemporary hand and rubricated : Istud opus est ad usum fratris Andree de et fratris Jacobi de Tholomeis de conventu (ordinis Minorum erased) in quo opere est primus et secundus cum additionibus et tertius Magistri Johannis Duns doctoris subtilis. Et completissimus et correptissimus liber est. See MS 302.

At the top of 1 is the late I4th-cent. College inventory-mark 36s" liber theologie (with a note: Hie non secundus liber totalis Duns super 2m. sed solum abbreviatus); the valuation iii li. (a high figure) is on 2. At the foot of 184 is a horizontal staple-mark.

i and ii are a discarded bifolium, of which only the first column was written, from an abortive copy of the Ordinatio I in a I5th-cent. English hand; its lack of wormholes shows that it has not always stood next to 1. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Wadding 1639
• Oxford Balliol MS