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THE QUAESTIO DE RELATIONE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM OCKHAM We present in the following pages the hitherto unedited text of the Quaestio de Relatione attributed to William Ockham. It has been prepared from the one ms. copy known to exist and found in the Basel University collection. As far as we are able to trace it back, Little1 was one of the first to mention the existence of this ms., presumably using Haenel2 as his source. Doncoeur3 had occasion to refer to it, and a few years later Hochstetter4 gave a brief description of it in his work on the Metaphysics of Ockham. Still later, Fr. Boehner, O.F.M.,5 edited portions of the ms., which were to constitute the first two volumes of Franciscan Institute Publications (Philosophy Series). It may be well, at this point, to give a more complete description of the codex than Dr. Hochstetter intended. Our description is as follows: Basel. Univ. Bibl. lat. F. II. 24, ff. 48. Late (?) XIVth cent, cursive hand, vellum, two columns. 4°. 1. Tractatus Ockham, de Successivis. a.—Fol. 2ra. Superscription: Tractatus occam de motu. Inc.: Quia communis opinio est quod motus tempus et locus . . . Expl. f. 6ra: ista ad praesens sufficiunt de motu et mutatione. b.—Fol. 6ra. Superscription: Tractatus occam de loco. Inc.: Consequenter dicendum est de loco . . . Expl. f. 8vb: si necesse fuerit completius tractabuntur. *We wish to thank our confreres, Fathers Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M., and Kilian F. Lynch, O.F.M., for their friendly advice and invaluable assistance in the preparation of this paper. 1.A. G. Little, The Grey Friars at Oxford (Oxford, 1892), p. 228. 2.G. Haenel, Catalogi librorum mss. qui in bibliothecis Galliae Helvetiae . . . asservantur (Leipzig, 1829), [p. 513-660: Basel]. These catalogues were not available to us at the time of writing. 3.P. Doncoeur, "Le nominalisme de Guillaume Occam. La théorie de la Relation ," in Revue Neo-Scolastique de Philosophie, XXIII, no. 89 (Louvain, 1921), p. 6. 4.E. Hochstetter, Studien zur Metaphysik und Erkenntnislehre Wilhelms von Ockham (Berlin and Leipzig, 1927), p. 3. 5.P. Boehner, The Tractatus De Successivis attributed to William Ockham (Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure, N. Y., 1944). The Tractatus de Praedestinatione et de Praescientia Dei et de Futuris Contingentibus (Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure, N. Y., 1945). [273] [274] THE QUAESTIO DE RELATIONE ATTRIBUTED TO OCKHAM c—Fol. 8vb. Superscription: Tractatus occam de tempore. Inc.: Philosophus quinto physicorum capitulo de tempore . . . Expl. f. llrb: et contingit successive verificare contradictoria. 2.Tractatus Ockham (?) de Relatione. Fol. llrb. Superscription: Tractatus occam de relatione. Inc.: AHa (?) de relatione plurima vane referuntur . . . Expl. f. 16va: sunt eiusdem generis et etiam diversorum generum. 3.Tractatus Ockham de Praedestinatione, etc. Fol. 17ra. Superscription: Tractatus occam de predestinatione et prescientia dei. Inc.: Circa materiam de predestinatione et scientia est advertendum . . . Expl. f. 18va: scientiam dei respectu futurorum contingentium . 4.(Tractatus Ockham de Futuris Contingentibus). Fol. 18va. Inc.: Utrum deus respectu omnium futurorum contingentium habeat notitiam determinatam . . . Expl. f. 2Ira: stat tota difficultas in illa materia. Amen. Explicit tractatus de futuris contingentibus et predestinatione divina editus a fratre Wilhelmi ocham ordinis fratrum minorum. 5.Tractatus Ockham de Sacramento Altaris. Fol. 21rb. Superscription: Primum quodlibet (!) occam. Inc. Sicut dicit quaedam glossa . . . Ad illius veritatis determinationem . . . Expl. f. 29vb: quia alias diffusius tractabo de ea. 6.(QQ. anón, de puncto et negatione). a.—Fol. 30ra. Inc.: Utrum functus qui communiter ponitur terminus lineae sit alia res a linea . . . Expl. f. 32rb: quae tamen sunt res posteriores in esse etc. b.—Fol. 32rb. Inc.:—Utrum circumscripta omni operatione intellectus maneat negatio . . . Expl. f. 33rb: immo potius significat falsum etc. 7.(I Quodl.), II Quodl. Ockham. a.—Fol. 33rb: Utrum essentia divina et relatio distinguantur ex natura rei. F. 34ra: Utrum paternitas distinguatur a patre. F. 35ra: Utrum ángelus possit moveri localiter. F. 35va: Utrum unus ángelus loquatur alteri. F. 36ra: Utrum unus ángelus possit causare notitiam actualem in alio angelo ... F. 36rb: Utrum ángelus potest moveri per vacuum. F. GAUDENS E. MOHAN, O.F.M.[275] 36vb: Utrum linea componitur ex punctis. F. 38ra: Utrum possit demonstrara quod anima intellectiva sit forma corporis. F. 38rb: Utrum possit probari evidenter quod non est unus...

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