Quodlibet IV

THE TEXT EXAMINED EXTERIORLY

THE TEXT EXAMINED EXTERIORLY HISTORICAL AND CODICOLOGICAL ELEMENTS USED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TEXT§1. Quodlibet IV: Distributed by Means of Two Successive Exemplars by the University in Paris Henry’s Quodlibet IV was distributed by means of two successive university exemplars in Paris,both of which are now lost.There do exist manuscripts that contain both explicit and implicit indications of pecia transitions in the same places, and the existence of these transitions in multiple manuscripts is a strong argument for the hypothesis that these manuscripts were copied from the same model, which in the case of both these exemplars was divided into pecia.1 The common readings contained in these manuscript copies with pecia transitions in the same place should be the text of the model, and this text can be reconstructed on the basis of the common readings, even though both models are no longer extant. A. The first university exemplar The Quodlibeta of Henry of Ghent were, according to the taxation list of exemplaria of works distributed by the university in Paris,2 divided into 191 peciae, and R. Macken has been able to identify each of these.3 Quodlibet IV in this exemplar, i.e. the first Parisian university exemplar, was divided into 19 peciae. Of the manuscripts containing all or part of Quodlibet IV there are eight manuscripts that contain explicit pecia transitions corresponding to the pieces of the first Parisian university exemplar. These eight manuscripts were Bordeaux, Bibliothèque municipal, 146; Erlangen, Universitätsbibliotek 269/1; Paris, Arsenal 455; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1 However, as mentioned above on pp. ix-x, the manuscript Bologna, Bibl. universitaria , ms. lat. 2236 contained explicit pecia transitions of the first exemplar, but the text of Quodlibet IV in this manuscript was most likely copied from the second exemplar . This situation is similar to the text of Quodlibet VII in the same manuscript. Cf. Henr. de Gand., Quodlibet VII, ed. G.A.Wilson, pp. xiii-xiv. 2 Cf. A. Chevillier, L’origine de l’imprimerie à Paris, Paris 1694, p. 318ss.; C. Jourdain , Index chronologicus chartarum pertinentium ad historiam Universitatis Parisiensis …, Paris 1862, pp. 76-78 (n. 356); H. Denifle-A. Chatelain, Chartularium…, II, pp. 107-109; G. Murano, Opere Diffuse…, p. 123, n. 65. 3 R. Macken, “Les Quodlibets…,” pp. 83-96; Id., Bibl. man. H.G., II, pp. 976-1013. See also G.A.Wilson,“Previously Unnoticed Indications…,” pp. 192-204. THE TEXT EXAMINED EXTERIORLY XXVII 15353, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 15847; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 15848; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 15850; and Biblioteca Vaticana, Borghese 299.4 The explicit and implicit pecia transitions that could be identified in these manuscripts are given in the table below. Explicit and Implicit Indications of Pecia Transitions in the University exemplar of NINETEEN peciae Pecia Bordeaux, B. munic. 146 Erlan-gen, Univ. B. 269/1 Paris, Arsenal 455 Paris, Nat. lat. 15353 Paris, Nat. lat. 15847 Paris, Nat. lat. 15848 Paris, Nat. lat. 15850 Vat., Borgh. 299 TEXT 1 67vb 79vb 69vb 54ra 94ra 84vb “In superiori disputatione nostra generali quaerebantur triginta septem.” Cf. infra, q. 1, lin. 1; ed. 1518, I, fol. 89vP; ed. 1613, fol. 140va. 2 70vb 72rb “…primum, quod Deus est, est summa ratio, cuius est nihil agere…” Cf. infra q. 7, lin. 93; ed. 1518, I, fol. 93vS; ed. 1613, fol. 148va. 3 72va 74va 56vb 100vb 73rb 90va “…aliqua distinctio propter nostrum conceptum et semper debet esse /// distinctio…” Cf. infra, q. 8, lin. 22; ed. 1518, fol. 96vH; ed. 1613, fol. 152ra. 4 74va 76vb 103vb 93va “…una pertinens ad quemdam eius habitum est, utrum caritas re…” Cf. infra, q. 10, lin. 3; ed. 1518, fol. 99vV; ed. 1613, fol. 155va 5 76vb 91rb 79ra 107ra 96rb “…amicitiae, sic nec benevolentiae. Quodammodo tamen debemus…” Cf. infra, q. 11, lin. 237; ed. 1518, fol. 102vX; ed. 1613, fol. 160ra. 6 78vb 94rb 81rb 110rb 99ra “…essentiam, quae consequitur totum compositum, falsa imaginatio…” Cf. infra, q. 13, lin. 293-294; ed. 1518, fol. 106rR; ed. 1613, fol. 164ra. 7 81ra 97rb 83vb 113va 83vb “…determinata ad propriam formam, dicente Commentatore ibidem…” Cf. infra, q. 13, lin. 832-833; ed. 1518, fol. 109rH; ed. 1613, fol. 167rb. 8 83va 100ra 116vb 105ra “…de potentia materiae educendo, quod facit nonnisi transmutando...” Cf. infra, q. 13, lin. 1386; ed. 1518, fol. 112vB; ed. 1613, fol. 170vb. 4 There is, of course, a ninth manuscript, Bologna...