DAGMARA WÓJCIK-ZEGA, WŁODZIMIERZ ZEGA, The commendatory speech “Ecce odor filii mei” by Stanisław of Skarbimierz for Maciej of Koło’s licenciate ceremony

SUMMARY

The article deals with Stanisław of Skarbimierz’s commendatory speech delivered during the ceremony of granting the licentia docendi to Maciej of Koło, likely the first licenciate in canon law promoted at the University of Kraków before 1408.

The first part of this research, a historical introduction, discusses hypotheses concerning the name of the graduate, the date and occasion of delivering the speech. Some new details concerning the biography of Maciej of Koło are included here. Analysis of Stanisław’s sources reveals doctrinal and textual dependency between the speech and De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus.

The second part of the article contains a critical edition of the speech, with an editorial introduction and Polish translation. The sermon is known from three manuscripts: Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, 191, and 723; University Library, Wrocław, I Q 381. The edition is based on ms. BJ 723 (B) with some variants from the remaining two copies (A, W), according to the stemma codicum. It is worth pointing that sermon Ecce odor was rewritten by Jan Elgoth, a disciple of Stanisław, in order to accomodate the speech to a bachelor’s promotion. Textual changes made by him on margins of ms. BJ 723 are published in the second apparatus.