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Burney MS 358

Record Id:

040-002237279

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000196

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 358

Title:

Collection of Scholastic Questions

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-2v: William de la Maire, Quaestiones Disputatae XXVI: Quaestio XXIII-XXVI. (fragment) Inc. ...ergo non est electa vita. Expl. "Ad ix. et ultimum nihil dico, quia bene concludit, ut mihi videtur." "Expliciunt quaestiones fratris G. de la Maire ordinis fratrum minorum."
ff. 2v-16: Bartholomew of Bologna, Quaestiones disputate de intellectu et anima. Inc. "Questio est utrum intellectus gloriosus in patria videat Deum per essentiam, aut per speciem aliquam." Expl. Praeterea simplex privat partem et partem".
ff. 17-31v: Bartholomew of Bologna, Quaestiones disputate de primo principio et de creatione. Inc. "Quaeritur utrum ante productionem rerum creatarum primum principium produxit aliquid sibi consubstantiale." Breaks off incomplete at Quaestion 9 as "Item, actus justificationis implicat in se essentiam creationis, cum justificatio impii sit per gratie."
f. 32r: blank
f. 32v: List of questions in the previous section of the book.
ff. 33-85: Matthew of Aquasparta, Quaestiones disputatae. Inc. "Quaeritur utrum ad cognitionem rei requiratur ipsius rei existentia." Breaks off at Question 18 as "fulgur liquefacit pecuniam in marsupio, nec tamen ledit marsupium."
ff. 85-108v: Anonymous commentary on Aristotle's Physics. Inc. " Queritur de positione Parmenidis et Melissi, qui posuerunt tantumunum esse; et videtur quod positio sit vera." Expl. " cum illud principium non est sufficiens, et propter hoc indiget alio motore. Amen." (unpublished but described in detail by Zimmermann (1971), p. 25.)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237279

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 358 : Collection of Scholastic Questions

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0358]/040-002237279

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm (text space ff. 1-16: 225 x 155 mm in two columns with an intercolumnium of 15mm; ff. 17-31v: 235 x 140 mm in one column; ff. 33-84v: 210 x 135 mm in two columns with an intercolumnium of 10 mm; ff. 85-108v: 235 x 150 mm in two columns with an intercolumnium of 15 mm).

Foliation: ff. [iii] +108 = [i] (ff. unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and a stub with Burney's table of contents at the end of the volume). Folios are missing from the beginning of the volume and between ff 31-32; 84-85.

Script: Gothic cursive and book scripts - 5 hands: 1) ff. 1-3: Gothic (scholastic) bookhand; 2.) ff. 2v-16: Gothic cursive; ff. 17-31v: Gothic cursive; ff. 33-85: Gothic rotunda; ff. 85-108v: Gothic bookhand.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England or Italy?.

Provenance:

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 97.

E. Longpré, 'Guillaume de La Mare, O.F.M.', La France Franciscaine 5 (1922), pp. 289-306 (p. 289).

I. Squadrani, 'Tractatus De Luce Fr. Bartholomaei De Bononia', Antonianum 7 (1932), pp. 201–238 (pp. 209-212).

M. Mückshoff, Die Quaestiones disputatae de fide des Bartholomaeus von Bologna OFM., Münster i. Westfalien., 1940 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, 24/4), pp. xxxv-xxxvi.(manuscript mentioned).

Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de fide et de cognitione, (Quaracchi/Firenze, 1957), manuscript mentioned.

G. Gál (ed.), Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta O.F.M., S. R. E. Cardinalis, Quaestiones disputatae, de anima separata ...,, (Quaracchi: Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 1959), manuscript mentioned.

A. Zimmermann, Verzeichnis ungedruckter Kommentare zur Metaphysik und Physik des Aristoteles aus der Zeit von etwa 1250-1350. Band I. (Leidne: Brill, 1971), p. 25.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bartholomew, of Bologna, 1230-1294
Mare, William, friar and theologian, fl 1272-1279
Matthew of Aquasparta, 1240-1302