Merton College MS. 90

Former shelfmark: H. 1. 6

DUNS SCOTUS; S. XV

Language(s): Latin

(fols. i-ii, 1) blank. On fol. 1^v is a table of contents and a list of the tituli to art. 1, in two different hands, s. xv ex.

1. (fols. 2–130v)

JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, Quodlibeta

Rubric: Quodlibet doctoris subtilis

Incipit: Cuncte res difficiles ait Salomon. Eccles. primo et cur intelligat eas esse difficiles subdit

Explicit: et sic patet ad raciones

Final rubric: Explicit &c. Explicit quodlibetum D. S.

DSO (Wadding), 12. 1–544; Glorieux, Théol. 344s.

2. (fols. 131–46v)

JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, De Primo Principio

Rubric: Doctor subtilis de primo principio

Incipit: Primum uerum principium mihi ea credere sapere

Explicit: ergo hoc non est ergo neuter est opt’ exª

Final rubric: Explicit primus tractatus I. Scoti de primo principio

Ed. A. B. Wolter (Chicago, ILL, 1983), pp. 3–151, here with a short addition to the printed text ‘Opt’ contingentis uult omne alio a se saltem causale ...’. Glorieux, Théol. 344h.

3. (fols. 147–54v)

Ps.-JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, De Cognitione Dei

Rubric: Doctor subtilis de cognicione Dei

Incipit: Quia supprema cognicio nobis potentiali natura de Deo habetur

Explicit: sunt ueritates scibiles nisi tamen funte[sic]

This does not seem to be the same text of which a fragment is pr. DSO (Wadding), 3. 431–40; Glorieux, Théol, 344ad. Tanner, pp. 238–9 n. a, reports this copy, but gives the incipit ‘Quia summa nobis cognitio est’, as Bale, Scriptores i. 363. Another copy with the present incipit is in Assisi, Bibl. comm. 172, fols. 117v-20v.

4. (fols. 155–99v)

JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, Collationes Parisienses

Rubric: Collaciones Parisienses secundum doctorem subtilem

Incipit: Vtrum sit tamen una prudencia directum respectu omnium agibilium ita quod ad dirigendum omnis actus morales in suos fines sufficiat una prudencia

Explicit: alia in Filio et sic de Spiritus Sancto igitur &c

DSO (Wadding), 3. 345–430; Glorieux, Théol. 344u¹. 19 quaestiones, 1–17 corresponding to Wadding 1, 8, 6–7, 2–4, 17–18, 9–11, 20, 36–9; then follow two pr. from this and MS 65 by Harris, Duns Scotus, II, pp. 361–70. The text varies much from the printed version.

5. (fols. 200–16; 216v-18v blank)

JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, Collationes Oxonienses

Rubric: Collationes Oxonienses secundum doctorem subtilem et sunt collationes 3, 5, 25

Incipit: Vtrum cum simplicitate persone diuine posset scire pluralitas racionum realium in eadem ante omne actum intellectus. Probo quod non quia pluralitas rationum intellectualium substancie

Explicit: non est ratio cognoscendi||

(ends unfinished in 32. 1; edn., p. 411)

DSO (Wadding), 3. 345–430; Glorieux, Théol. 344u². Divided into eightquaestiones. 1–3, 5–8 are Wadding 23, 26, 19, 30, 34, 12, 32; cf. MS 65 art. 2. No. 4 is ‘Vtrum g’tus entis sit simpliciter unicus Deo et creaturis’.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: diuinam sed

Form: codex

Support: Parchment

Extent: 221 leaves (ii + 218, incl. 130a)

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.

Dimensions (written): 145–55 × 95–100 mm.

Collation

A singleton, hooked around the first quire, A⁴(2–3 canc.), 1¹²(6 canc.), 2¹²(2 canc.), 3–5¹², 6–17⁸, 18¹², 19–22⁸, 23⁸(+ 1 before 1), 24⁸, 25⁸(lacking 2–8, a bifolium, formerly following this quire, inserted after 1); catchwords.

Layout

Frame-ruled with crayon, written in 35–8 long lines.

Hand(s)

Small, neat secretary hands. Marginal annotation throughout in several contemporary hands; one of them may be that of the second table of contents, which is perhaps the hand of Thomas Gawge.

Decoration

Blue initials flourished in red; red or blue paraphs.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; chained from the usual position.

History

Origin: S. XV

Provenance and Acquisition

At the head of fol. 1v ‘Liber domus scolarium de Mertone in Oxonia ex dono M. Thome Gaugge quondam socii eiusdem domus ad incathenandum in libraria ibidem.’ For Gawge, fellowc. 1441–8, d. 1470, see MS 43.

Inside the front board is a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘N. 7. 10 Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced by ‘H. 1. 6’, in red, and the College bookplate. ‘10’ is inked on the foredge.

Record Sources

R. M. Thomson, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer), 2009.

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Merton College Library.

Bibliography

Coxe, p. 48; Powicke, no. 976.

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-05-01: First online publication

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