PASCALE FARAGO-BERMON, The Manuscripts of Quaestiones Super Libros Sententiarum by Robert Holkot. Part IV: Eichstaett, Universitätsbibliothek, St 713

SUMMARY

This paper describes the content of the manuscript of Robert Holkot’s Commentary on the Sentences preserved in Eichstaett : Universitätsbibliothek st 713. This manuscript is a precious testament to the active reading done on Holcot’s Sentences in some Dominican convents during the second half of the fourteenth century. Copied in Santa Maria Novella, Florence, by the brother Io[hannes] of Castua (Kastav?), at the very moment when Iohannes Galeaz Visconti was chasing the Scaliger from Verona (1387), it contains what could be the first work known to date from the famous Prior of Santa Maria Novella, the ”blessed” Alexius of Strozzis (†1383): some “Solutiones argumentorum Holcoti in questione corporis Christi ». Copied within the walls of the Florentine convent, this manuscript does not belong to the old fund of Santa Maria Novella, described by S. Orlandi and G. Pomaro, but probably uses exemplares from Holcot’s Lectura that were available at the convent or at least in Florence. This copy of Holkot’s Quaestiones super Sententias is further distinguished by the anonymous additions it makes to the text, which are conscientiously reported in margins.
The tabula makes use of a system of marginal letters that the author describes in detail in his introduction. It only indexes the first three books, which are the only ones to have an original foliotation. The dubium De obiecto actus credendi [0002] is missing from this copy, which seems to consider that book I begins at question 2. This manuscript also reveals a new unknown slightly mutilated witness of the Sex articuli copied after the question [015]. The manuscript copies book III before book IV and contains for book III the series [008 of incarnatione], [018 of beatitudine], [009 of angelo custode], [010 of peccato demonum].