Paris. Bibl. Mazarine MS 3522 (478)
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1.fols. 1-95v: Somnium Viridarii;
2.fols. 96r-103v: Table of contents of Somnium Viridarii;
3.fols. 104r-148v: Ockham, Octo questiones;
4.fols. 149r-199r: Ockham, 3.2 Dial. (ending with 3.16) (=Mw);
5.fols. 200r-297r: Ockham, 3.1 Dial. (ends at 246), 3.2 Dial. (=Mz);
6.fols. 298r-310r: Ockham, Compendium erroris;
7.fol. 310r: List of contents of the volume.
From the British Academy description:
- Published Information: See Auguste Molinier, Catalogue des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Mazarine, t. III (Paris: Plon, 1890), p. 120. In the top margin of fol. 298r: "Olkam [perhaps "Okham"], ordinis fratrum Minorum, scriptus a fratre R. Stopford". Dates MS to 14th century. Items 5 and 6 in the same hand, different from the others. MS held formerly in the library of Saint Victor. See also Ockham, Opera Politica, ed. H.S. Offler, vol. 1 (ed. 2), p. 5 (M), and vol. 4, p. 7 (M). See also L. Baudry, Guillaume d'Occam (Paris, 1949), pp. 257-9. Knysh: C. Samaran, R. Marichal, Catalogue des manuscripts en écriture latine, portant des indications de lieu ou de copiste, t. I, Paris: Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, 1959, p. 422, note that two distinct complexes were bound together: (1) fos. 1-199 (Mw), of the 14th c., and (2) fos. 200-310 (Mz), of the 15th c.
- Unpublished notes: See Elizabeth Pellegrin and Françoise Hudry, "Renseignements généraux concernant le MS. Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 3522(478)", available at l'Insitut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Paris. Gives a full description. Dates MS to late 14th century. Draws attention to the comment on 199v (see below).
- Observations: Comment on the bottom of fol. 199v ("Usque hic habetur in alio volumine... que secuntur non habetur") suggests that the present contents of this codex were already bound together when that comment was made. Otherwise it seems possible that items 5 and 6 were originally a separate codex. Absence of annotations by Simon de Plumetot in 5 and 6 is consistent with the hypothesis that when he used it the codex did not contain 5 and 6. Mw (but not Mz) contains annotations in the hand of Simon de Plumetot. (See Plumetot.)
- Collation shows that in 3.2 Dial. Mz is rather close to Na and Ve and Mw close to Ba Di To --- see here. See End of 3.2 Dial.: Mw ends with "antistitem"; Mz has as much text as Ly, but not as much as Na and Ve.
- Knysh: The author of the comment on the bottom of fol. 199v was Claude de Grandrue, librarian at St. Victor from 1502 to 1520: see L. Delisle, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la bibliothèque nationale, t. II, Paris 1874, p. 229. On the career of Grandrue, see A. Franklin, Histoire de la bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Saint-Victor à Paris, d'après des documents inédits, Paris 1865, pp. 29-30; F. Bonnard, Histoire de l'abbaye royale et de l'ordre des chanoines réguliers de St Victor de Paris, t. I, Paris 1904, pp. 466-468. Comments similar to that of fol. 199v were composed by Grandrue during his preliminary inventory (1502-1508) of the abbey's manuscripts. My studies of the evidence, including careful comparisons of many extant St Victor manuscripts, indicate that it is Grandrue who supervised the blending of Mw and Mz into a single volume (the final page number sequences of today's Ms. 3522 are in his hand, as is the intermediate numbering of Mz [a1 a2 etc.: cf. Mz fol. 200, 201 etc.] much of which was cut in the binding process.) See also remarks concerning Pe below.
