Roma Vat. Lat. 4096

Contents: 1 Dial. (fols. 1-171v), 2 Dial. (fols. 171v-188v); Conclusions of J. Wyclif (fol. 189r); Tabula of 1 Dial., 1-5 (fols. 189v-190v). 1 Dial. books 2-7 begin at 5v, 17v, 22v, 33r, 51r, 117r.

From the British Academy description:

Published Information: See Scholz Unbekannte, p. 143; G.J. Etzkorn, Iter Vaticanum Franciscanum (Leiden-New York-Köln, 1996), pp. 87-8. Etzkorn dates MS to 14th century. He notes a change of handwriting at 50v51r. He quotes a scribe's note to the reader, fol. 47r, on the disorganisation of the text.

Observations: Note on fol. 191r states that the codex was lent to Master Bernard Boerius (?), Ord. Carm., in June 1413, who returned it to the author of the note on 26 Jan, 1414. In gatherings of 12 folios, except the third (10), fourth (4, which ends 1 Dial. 5), and the eleventh (6, which ends 1 Dial. 6). Thus each of 1 Dial. 6 and 1 Dial. 7 begin new gatherings, but 2 Dial. does not. 1 Dial. 1-5 inclusive were written by one scribe, 1 Dial. 6 and 7 and 2 Dial. by another (50v51r). It seems unlikely that there was in circulation a combination consisting of 1 Dial. 6 and 7 plus 2 Dial., so it seems Vb was always a single MS, though made in two separate stages by two copyists.

Occasionally in the margin or between the columns to the left of the text there are signs consisting of dots and/or lines, of unknown significance; see 33r.

Beside the beginning of 2.1 Dial. (fol. 183r) a marginal comment reads, "Forte tractatus tercius", but in the bottom margin there is a comment "Tractatus iste non est tractatus tercius"; this does not imply that the author of the latter comment had seen 3 Dial., since he could have known from the preface to 1 Dial. that 3 Dial. would be about the rights of the Empire.

Collation shows that in 1 Dial. Vb belongs to the family that includes Pa Va Vg. In 2 Dial. there is a displacement of material: the word in/tellexerunt is divided, the "in" at the end of 174v and "tellexerunt" at the beginning of 176r, with fol. 175rv intruding. (See William of Ockham, Dialogus Part 2, 2.1 Dial. 4.45 "intellexerunt" (p. 34). The intruded passage begins at 5.86 "posset per eas probari" (p. 40) and ends at 7.12 "in regnum dei intrabunt" (p. 45).) The same text displacement (but with the marooned "in" omitted and "tellexerunt" changed to "intellexerunt"), unrelated to the physical structure of the MS, occurs in MSS that Ballweg classes as "Group B", i.e. Ax, Ba, Es, Fi, Kg, La, Lb, Lc, Na, To, Un and Va. These facts suggest that for 2 Dial. Vb is an ancestor of all the other members of Group B. (It may also perhaps be an ancestor of Di Fr, which do not have the displacement but otherwise have a similar text--possibly they had an intermediate ancestor in which the displacement was noticed and corrected).

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