Roma Vat. Lat. 13687
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- 2r-97v: Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum. sec. XIV
- 98r-v: Tabula primi libri Commentarii Oxoniensis in libros Sententiarum I. sec. XIV attr. Henricus de Harclay
- 99r-190r: Duns Scotus, Iohannes, b., 1265-1308 Commentarius sive Reportatio Parisiensis in secundum librum Sententiarum. sec. XIV
Attribution
Duba et al 2010:
- It was Charles Balic who first identified the commentary as Harclay's more than a half century ago. Building on the work of Franz Pelster, Balic compared marginal notations in T, to which the name "Harkley" or "Harkela" or "Harkeley" was attached, with the text in H, demonstrating that the commentary in H belongs to Harclay. It was only later that he found that C attributes the commentary to "Henry, chancellor of Oxford," in a different hand in the upper margin of the first folio, which further solidified the attribution. Explicit citations of "Henricus Anglicus" in Peter Auriol's Scriptum on Book 1 of the Sentences prove the attribution beyond doubt.
- In the prologue and first three distinctions of Book l, there is an indication that some material in Harclay's commentary found its way into that of Gonteri,[1] for example a reference to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed in Harclay's dist. 3, qu. l, and in Gonteri's dist. 3, qu. 11. After the first fifteen questions, however-that is, starting with distinction 4-Gonteri begins incorporating most of Harclay's questions verbatim, so that of the remaining 64 questions in Harclay's commentary, we find that 57 are also extant in the manuscripts containing Gonteri's commentary on Book 1.
- In addition, excerpts from Harclay's Book 1 are contained in the margins of MS. Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, 501 (= T), and Harclay's dist. 17, quo 4, and dist. 24 are preserved in MS. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8717, fols. 94va-b and 92va-93rb respectively (= M).
References
- William O. Duba, Russell L. Friedman, and Chris Schabel “Henry of Harclay and Aufredo Gonteri Brito”, in Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Brill 2010.
