Oxford. Balliol. 209

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209 DUNS SCOTUS 187; 173.H.8

A.D. 1463-5. 175 ff. (numbered as 173, 141 being used three times). 17 X 12 in. 52 lines. Collation: a-08 p4 (wants 3, 4 blank) q-s8 t8 (wants 5, 6 blank) [ a-d8, the rest lost. Catchwords and signatures. Same hand and ornament as MS 202. The first leaf, which doubtless had a border and heraldic initial, is cut out, as well as two blank leaves after 113 and two after 141; but handsome foliage initials with part-borders remain on 99, 114, and 142. The number of 'paraffi' in each quire was recorded as in MS 205, though the figures are mostly cut away; see 87v and 165v. Between 134 and 135 is inserted a folded scrap of parchment with isth-cent. scribbling on it—a late medieval book-mark.

  • 1-98v. (1) [JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS OFM, Quodlibeta, beg. imperfect in q. 1] secundo sic: in omni creatura essencia eo modo quo distinguitur ab existencia videtur esse prior ea—et sic patet ad raciones. Explicit Quod-libetum Doctoris subtilis scilicet Duns scriptum et finitum per me Johannem Reynboldi Almanicum de Monte ornato terre Hassie a.d. millesimo ccccmo sexagesimo tercio. Deo sit laus et honor in secula seculorum Amen.
  • 99-113V. (2) [De Primo Principio] Primum rerum principium michi ea credere sapere ac proferre concedat—per quern omnia qui est benedictus in secula amen. Explicit opus Doctoris subtilis intitulatum Duns de primo principio Scriptum et completum etc., as before but the date is sexagesimo tercio Mensis (not named) die quinto decimo. Deo laus in secula seculorum Amen.
    • Printed by Wadding iii. 210-53, and by M. Muller OFM (Freiburg i. B., 1941); Glorieux ii, no. 344/1; Opera omnia i. 154*. It is here divided into 7 chapters.
  • 114-41v. (3) [Collacio Parisiensis] Utrum sit tantum una prudencia directiva respectu omnium agibilium ita quod ad dirigendum omnes actus morales in suos fines sufficiat una prudencia specie. Dicitur quod sic—de spiritu sancto ergo etc. Explicit collacio Parisiensis Doctoris subtilis scriptum etc. as above, but 650 die mensis Maii vicesimo primo. 141 bis and ter are blank.
    • There are 19 quaestiones. The first seventeen, as in Vatican lat. 876, are those numbered by Wadding, Opera iii. 345-430, 1, 8, 6, 7, 2-4, 17, 18, 9-11, 20, 36-39; then follow two printed from this copy and Merton Coll. 90 by C. R. S. Harris, Duns Scotus (Oxford, 1927) ii. 361-70. Eight MSS are listed in the Opera omnia i (1950) 151*.
  • 142-73v. (4) [Collacio Oxoniensis] Utrum cum simplicitate persone divine posset stare pluralitas racionum realium in eadem ante omnem actum intellectus. Probo quod non. . . . Breaks off imperfect in the 24th quaestio: aliquid est quando habet formam quia habet materiam. Contra illud non est cuius esse (existencie non est).

Questions 1-3, 5-19, 21, 23-24 are those numbered in Wadding's edition, 23, 26, 19. 30. 34> 12, 32, 33, 31, 21, 13, 22, 27, 25, 24, 35, 14, 16, 15, 28, 29; they differ considerably from the print. Nos. 4, 20, and 22, which are not in Wadding, are printed from this MS by Harris, 371-8. Perhaps Scotus's De perfectione statuum originally followed, as in the sister-MS, Merton Coll. 65 of a.d. 1456. See L. Meier (cited under MS 202) 94.

The inscription of William Gray's gift was no doubt on the lost first leaf. [1]

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