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Manuscripts of Auriol’s works

Sentences Commentaries

For Auriol’s Sentences commentaries, the list here updates on the basis of further research the best list to date:

K.H. Tachau, “The Preparation of a Critical Edition of Pierre Auriol’s Sentences Lectures”, in A. Cacciotti and B.F. de Mottoni (eds.), Editori di Quarracchi 100 anni dopo. Bilancio e prospettive (Rome, 1997) pp. 205-16, list on pp. 214-16.

I Sent.

Scriptum in I Sent. (For a question list, see The Electronic Scriptum)

  1. Auch, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 2
  2. Bologna, Biblioteca universitaria, Ms. 2243
  3. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 3624
  4. Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Ms. conv. soppr. B.1.118
  5. Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Ms. 133 scaff. vii
  6. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. latin 15363
  7. Sarnano, Biblioteca comunale, Ms. E. 101 (ends at d. 27)
  8. Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 1049
  9. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Borgh lat. 318 (ends at d. 27)
  10. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Borgh lat. 329 (presentation copy to John XXII)
  11. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Ottob. lat. 995 (ends at d. 27)
  12. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 940
  13. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 941
  14. Vendôme, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 72

In addition, Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale 109 abbreviates several questions from the Scriptum and Pelplin, Biblioteka Seminarium duchownego 53/102, ff. 14ra-129vb contains a text that might be an anonymous author reading “secundum” Auriol’s Scriptum;

  • see for both mss. C. Schabel, Theology at Paris 1316-1345: Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents (Ashgate, 2000), p. 132, n.17,
  • and specifically for the Pelplin ms, idem, “Parisian Commentaries from Peter Auriol to Gregory of Rimini, and the Problem of Predestination”, in G.R. Evans (ed.), Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Brill, 2002), pp. 240-41, and n. 43.

Reportationes in I Sent.

  1. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Theol. Fol. 536
  2. Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Ms. 292 scaff. xiii
  3. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 243 (index quaestionum only)
  4. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Borgh lat. 123
  5. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat, lat. 946 (abbreviations of several questions)
  6. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat, lat. 6768 (an early version of 19 questions)

For the Reportationes, mss. 1, 2, and 4 contain the same redaction up to d. 32, from d. 33 onwards they diverge;

  • see L.O. Nielsen, “Peter Auriol’s Way with Words. The Genesis of Peter Auriol’s Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s First and Fourth Books of the Sentences” in G.R. Evans, ed., Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Brill, 2002), pp. 149-219, esp. pp. 151-70, 190-210.
  • See also, Schabel, Theology at Paris, esp. pp. 71-75.

On Vat. lat. 6768,

  • see G.J. Etzkorn, Iter Vaticanum Franciscanum. A Description of Some One Hundred Manuscripts of the Vaticanus Latinus Collection (Leiden, 1996), pp. 199-209;
  • along with Nielsen, “Auriol’s way with Words” cit., esp. pp. 154-55, with n. 28.

Padova, Biblioteca Universitaria, Ms. 1580, does not contain the Reportatio in Primum but rather parts of Auriol’s II Sent., pace Tachau, “The Preparation of a Critical Edition”, p. 214.

II Sent.

(For a question list, see here)

  1. Assisi, Biblioteca del Convento di S. Francesco, Ms. 197 (63 abbreviated questions)
  2. Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Ms. Ripoll 77bis (compilation including a selection of questions from Auriol’s II Sent.)
  3. Düsseldorf, Landes- und Staatsbibliothek, Ms. B. 159
  4. Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Ms. conv. soppr. A.3.120
  5. Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Ms. conv. soppr. B.6.121
  6. Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale, Ms. VII.C.3
  7. Oxford, Balliol College, Ms. 63, ff. 1r-18v (fragment, probably different redaction)
  8. Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Ms. 161 scaff. ix
  9. Padova, Biblioteca Universitaria, Ms. 1580 (contains various physical and metaphyscial questions by Auriol including some from II Sent.)
  10. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. latin 3066
  11. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. latin 15867
  12. Pelplin, Biblioteka Seminarium duchownego, Ms. 46/85
  13. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Borgiano 404
  14. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 942
  15. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 943 (fragments)
  16. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 6768 (a version of 37 questions)

On Auriol’s commentary on book II in general,

  • see particularly C. Schabel, “Place, Space, and the Physics of Grace in Auriol’s Sentences commentary”, Vivarium 38/1 (2000), pp. 117-61, esp. 155-57;
  • Valens Heynck, “Die Kommentare des Petrus Aureoli zum dritten Sentenzenbuch”, Franziskanische Studien 51 (1969), pp. 1-77, esp. p. 42 (on Assisi, Balliol, and Barcelona), but further 40-55.

On the Barcelona ms,

  • see Schabel, “Parisian Commentaries” cit., p. 231 and n. 44.

On Balliol 63,

  • see F. Pelster, “Zur Ueberlieferung des Quodlibet und anderer Schriften des Petrus Aureoli O.F.M.”, Franciscan Studies 14 (1954), 392-411, esp. pp. 398-401 (ms. description),
  • and L.O. Nielsen, “The Debate between Peter Auriol and Thomas Wylton on Theology and Virtue”, Vivarium 38/1 (2000), 35-98, who says (p. 36, n. 4) of the collection of questions from Auriol’s commentary on book II found here that it “is somewhat shorter than the printed version and may be either an abbreviation or an early version of the commentary”.
  • Also on this ms and the texts in it with connection to Auriol, see L.O. Nielsen, “The Intelligibility of Faith and the Nature of Theology: Peter Auriole’s Theological Programme”, Studia theologica 53 (1999), pp. 26-39, passim.

On Padova, Bibl. Univ. 1580, and the Quaestiones in Metaphysicam that Lohr claims exists in it,

  • see the Bibliography of Auriol Studies, Primary Texts, under the section Non-existent Work.

For Vat. lat. 6768,

  • see Etzkorn, loc.cit.

III Sent.

(For question lists, see here)

  1. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 32 dext. 12
  2. Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Ms. conv. soppr. B.6.121
  3. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. latin 17484
  4. Pelplin, Biblioteka Seminarium duchownego, Ms. 46/85
  5. Salamanca, Biblioteca universitaria Ms. 2295
  6. Sarnano, Biblioteca comunale E. 92
  7. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 243
  8. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 901 (fragment)


Three major versions:

  • Ad evidentiam (22 dist. = ms. 6 as well as the printed edition of 1605; ms. 5 seems to be related to this version).
  • Circa tertium (72 qq. = mss. 1, 3, 7; ms. 2 appears to be an abbreviation of this version, ms. 6 as well as the printed edition of 1605 pickup (after the 22 distinctions of Ad evidentiam version) with the Circa tertium version around the questions for d. 27, and ms. 4 is presumably an example of this version).
  • Et quia magister (fragmentary commentary of three questions, found at the beginning [= first 8 ff.] of mss. 1, 3, 7).

See

  • Valens Heynck, “Die Kommentare des Petrus Aureoli zum dritten Sentenzenbuch”, Franziskanische Studien 51 (1969), pp. 1-77, with question lists;
  • William Duba, “The Immaculate Conception in the Works of Peter Auriol”, Vivarium 38/1 (2000), pp. 5-34, esp. 6 and n. 3.

IV Sent.

(For question lists, see here)

  1. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 32 dext. 12
  2. Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Ms. 160 scaff. ix
  3. Pelplin, Biblioteka Seminarium duchownego, Ms. 46/85
  4. Salamanca, Biblioteca universitaria M. 2295
  5. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 243
  6. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Ms. Vat. lat. 942 (ff. 51, 69, 115 = q. 1)
  7. Vicenza, Biblioteca Bertoliana, Ms. 107

Mss. 2, 3, 5, 7, contain the main version of this work, which is also contained in the printed edition of 1605; ms. 4 contains another version of the work; ms. 1 contains a mixed version of the work.

On versions and their relation to each other, see

  • Nielsen, “Peter Auriol’s Way with Words” cit., esp. pp. 171-89 (Nielsen, p. 171, n. 64 notes that Mantova, Biblioteca comunale, Ms. E.IV.19, is a 19th century exercise in calligraphy and does not contain Auriol’s IV Sent., and that Düsseldorf, Landes- und Staatsbibliothek, Ms. B. 159, does not contain Auriol’s book IV, but only book II, pace in both cases Tachau, “The Preparation of a Critical Edition”, p. 215).

Quodlibet

  1. Assisi, Biblioteca comunale 136, 58r-111v
  2. Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 109, ff. 23-90
  3. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Ms. Plut. 32 dext. 12, ff. 95r-137r
  4. München, Staatsbibliothek Cod. Lat. 26309, ff. 207r-18v (6 qq.)
  5. Napoli, Biblioteca nationale, VII.B.31, 1r-60v
  6. Oxford, Balliol College 63 (Reportatio? Early Edition?)
  7. Paris, BnF lat. 14566, ff. 7-81
  8. Paris, BnF lat. 15867, ff. 141-208
  9. Paris, BnF lat. 17485, ff. 3-84
  10. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale 180, ff. 129-
  11. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale 739, ff. 189r-224v
  12. Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale 744
  13. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. lat. 946 (Abbreviation), ff. 87v-91v
  14. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat., Borgh. Lat. 123, ff. 199r-268v

For the most complete description with detailed question list (including folios on which the various questions are to be found), see

  • Nielsen, “The Quodlibet of Peter Auriol”, in C. Schabel (ed.), Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages. The Fourteenth Century (Leiden, 2007), pp. 267-73.

Specifically on München 26309, see

  • J. Koch, Durandus de S. Porciano O.P. Forschungen zum Streit um Thomas von Aquin zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts (BGPTM 26, 1927), pp. 31-33.

On the text in Vat. lat. 946 and München 26309, see

  • Nielsen, “The Debate between Auriol and Wylton” cit., p. 37, n. 12; for Balliol 63, ibid., esp. pp. 36-38.

Tabula quaestionum for Auriol’s Quodlibet

  1. Utrum in aliqua re formalitas et realitas distinguantur.
  2. Utrum actio agentis differat realiter ab agente.
  3. Utrum alius et alius modus unitatis seu indivisionis sufficienter tollat contradictiones quae videntur occurrere in divinis.
  4. Utrum sola distinctio secundum quid vel inconvertabilitatis inter proprietates et essentiam sufficiat ad tollendas contradictiones in divinis non ponendo alium modum unitatis vel indivisionis.
  5. Utrum sola distinctio rationis sufficiat ad tollendam omnem contradictionem in divinis.
  6. Utrum anima intellectiva sit immediate principium suae operationis.
  7. Utrum anima constituta ex duabus realitatibus esse possit forma corporis.
  8. Utrum ad visionem beatificam requiratur aliqua similitudo creata.
  9. Utrum ad visionem beatificam requiratur aliquis habitus vel lumen creatum.
  10. Utrum videns divinam essentiam videt necessario quicquid representatur per eam.
  11. Utrum virtus moralis, in quantum virtus, sit ens per accidens.
  12. Utrum virtus moralis consistens circa unam materiam habeat unitatem formae simplicis natura constitutae.
  13. Utrum virtus moralis in appetitu sensitivo sit qualitas media essentialiter constituta ex habitibus, quae inclinat ad passiones extremas.
  14. Utrum virtus moralis dividatur in quatuor cardinales tamquam in species subalternas.
  15. Utrum speculativa et practica distinguantur penes esse et non-esse activum principium in agente respectu sui obiecti.
  16. Utrum formae miscibilium qualitatum different realiter a sua actualitate.

Separate Treatises

De conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis
and
Repercussorium editum contra aversarium innocentiae matris Dei

  1. Admont, Stiftsbibl. 340 (De conceptione)
  2. Assisi, Biblioteca comunale 193 (De conceptione)
  3. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale 518 (De conceptione)
  4. Düsseldorf, Staatsarchiv IV.97 (De conceptione/Repercussorium)
  5. Erfurt, Amplon. Q 131 (De conceptione/Repercussorium)
  6. Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibl. 372 (De conceptione/Repercussorium)
  7. München, CLM 3590 (De conceptione)
  8. Roma, BN Sessor. 1405 (100) (De conceptione/Repercussorium)
  9. Sankt-Florian, Stifstbibl. 138 (De conceptione/Repercussorium)
  10. Vaticano (Città del), Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. Lat. 10275 (De conceptione)

Arras, BM 400 (876) is a highly mutilated copy of what appears to be a slight reworking of the De conceptione by a certain Maturinus Clementis, O. Carm.

Pelster, “Zur Überlieferung” cit., p. 392, indicates Bruges, Bibl. epis. Theca 116 n.1 as a Spanish translation.

P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, vol 2. (Paris, 1933), 244-48, also lists as manuscripts Munich 691 and 1502, as well as Krakow 1600, but, in the case of Munich, it is unclear what he is referring to; Krakow remains unconfirmed. Additionally, Glorieux signals a manuscript in Naples without further specification, and Chartres 428, which has since been destroyed.

  • Information taken from: Duba, “The Immaculate Conception”, pp. 10-11, n. 11.

Biblical Commentaries

Many manuscripts; see

  • F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, vol. IV (N-Q), Madrid, 1954, pp. 231-35, along with no. 8883 in supplement volume, s.v. ‘Petrus Aureoli’.

Notes on seperate question:

Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Ms. 173: ff. 59ra: “Utrum accidencia proprie diffinantur”; ff. 45v-47r: “Utrum ens dicat unum conceptum unius racionis, sub que contineatur Deus et denarius predicamentorum …”

  • See: Pelster, “Zur Ueberlieferung”, pp. 407-08.