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Marston MS 203 England, s. XV 2
Jacobus de Esculo, Quaestiones ordinariae, etc.
1. ff. 1r-17v [Q. 1.] Utrum noticia actualis omnium diuinorum ad intra
presupponatur in deo patre productioni verbi passiue...; [f. 3v, Q. 2.]
Utrum in produccione verbi diuini actus memorie paterne presupponitur [?]
actui sue intelligencie...; [f. 7v, Q. 3.] Utrum produccioni passiue verbi
diuini in patre noticia actualis...; [f. 12r, Q. 4.] Utrum noticia actualis
creature presupponatur in deo noticie habituali eiusdem...; [f. 14r, Q. 5.]
Utrum noticia actualis quam habuit deus de creatura posuerit ipsam ab evo...non
potest esse per se terminus produccionis. [concludes with a
list of the 5 quaestiones and the colophon:] Expliciunt questiones
ordinarie Iacobi de esculo.
Jacobus de Esculo, Quaestiones ordinariae, also found in Vatican
City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1012 (ff. 60v-62v), Vat.
lat. 4871 (ff. 33r-35v) and Cambridge University Library FF. III. 23 (ff.
127r-131r). We thank S. Dumont for his assistance with the bibliographical
citations in arts. 1-3. On the author and his works see T. Yokoyama,
"Zwei Questionen des Jacobus de Aesculo ueber das Esse Obiectivum," in
Wahrheit und Verkuendigung. Michael Schmaus zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. L.
Scheffczyk, et al., 2 vols. (Munich, 1967) pp. 31-74, with text of quaestio
5 edited from the three manuscripts cited above published on pp. 37-59;
Marston MS 203 not used, but contains readings closest to the Cambridge
manuscript. Text omitted from f. 10r added by contemporary hand on f. 9,
a single leaf inserted in the middle of quire.
2. ff. 17v-55v [Q. 1.] Utrum simplicitas diuine nature compatitur [?]
secum aliquam distinccionem ex natura...; [f. 22r, Q. 2.] Utrum
perfecciones creaturarum virtualiter contente in essentia diuina...; [f.
24v, Q. 3.] Utrum deus possit facere aliquod compositum ex elementis et
substantia forma vitali...; [f. 25v, Q. 4.] Utrum potentia generandi in deo
patre cadit sub omnipotencia...; [f. 26v, Q. 5.] Utrum intellectus agens
sit nobilior intellecto...; [f. 28v, Q. 6.] Utrum
omnis habitudo sit relatio...; [f. 30v, Q. 7.] Utrum respectus sit de
conceptu quid ditatiuo absoluti...; [f. 31v, Q. 8.] Utrum equalitas fundata
super duo equalia puta alba sit alia [?] super eadem alba...; [f. 33v,
Q. 9.] Utrum duo corpora simul esse in eodem loco implicet
contradiccionem...; [f. 36v, Q. 10.] Utrum accidentia in sacramento altaris
habeant proprie racionem suppositi...; [f. 39r, Q. 11.] Utrum potencia que
est differencia entis sit potentia subjectiva vel objectiva...; [f. 41v,
Q. 12.] Supposito quod voluntas sit actiua et passiua respectu sui actus
queritur utrum...; [f. 44r, Q. 13.] Utrum actus caritatis elicitus sit
nobilior ipso habitu vel non...; [f. 48r, Q. 14.] Utrum agens particulare
habeat aliquem effectum [per se added in margin]...; [f. 49v, Q. 15.]
Utrum posito quod possibile obiectum fundetur super aliquid absolutum...;
[f. 53r, Q. 16.] Utrum clericus beneficiatus de licencia stans in studio
sine spe proficiendi...; [f. 53v, Q. 17.] Utrum omnis actus integer sit
eiusdem speciei.... ff. 56r-58r blank; f. 58v List of 17 preceding
quaestiones hastily added to blank leaf.
Jacobus de Esculo, Quaestiones quodlibetales, also found in Vatican
City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1012 (ff. 48r-49r), Vat.
lat. 932 (ff. 39v-41v); Cambridge University Library FF. III. 23 (ff.
136v-139v); Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Cod. Plut. 31 dext. n. 8
(ff. 53r-54r). Marston MS 203 contains the order of quaestiones as found
in the Cambridge manuscript; see Yokoyama, op.cit., pp. 34-35.
3. ff. 59r-88r [Heading absent.] [Q]uomodo a forma absoluta...[conclusion
illegible]. f. 88v blank
Tabula operum Scoti, usually attributed to Jacobus de Esculo, also
found in Assisi 136, ff. 137r-166r. See V. Doucet, O. F. M., Maitres
franciscains de Paris: Supplement au "Repertoire des maitres en theologie de
Paris au XIII#e siecle" de P. Glorieux (Florence and Quaracchi, 1935)
p. 32 [562].
4. ff. 89r-94v [In margin:] Absoluere. [text:] Absoluere. Utrum prelatus
subdito cui comisit...[Quodlibet 1, questio 27];...[concluding with
section on ymagina; colophon:] Explicit tabula quodlibetorum henrici de
Gandauo. ff. 95r-96v blank
Tabula quodlibetorum Henrici de Gandavo, usually attributed to Jacobus
de Esculo. R. Macken, O. F. M., Bibliotheca Manuscripta Henrici de
Gandavo
(Leiden, 1979) v. 1, contents of Marston MS 203 listed on p. 411; v. 2, pp.
1018-19, with this manuscript noted in 4. C.
Paper, with parchment inner and outer bifolia (watermarks: similar to
Briquet Armoiries. Bande 1038-41, similar in general design to Briquet Main
11502 (1477), similar in general design to Briquet Main 11180 (1478), and
unidentified unicorn), ff. ii (paper) + 94 + ii (paper), 287 x 201
(written space ranges from 245 x 160 to 240 x 150) mm. 2 columns, ca. 46
lines. Frame-ruled in crayon; prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins.
I 16 (+1 paper leaf added between 8 and 10 in middle of quire), II-III 16,
IV 12 (-9 through 11, paper blanks), V-VI 16, VII 8 (-5, paper, and 8,
parchment, both blanks). Some catchwords under inner column.
Written by several scribes in different styles of gothic cursive scripts,
all exhibiting Anglicana features.
Majuscules and paragraph marks in red for arts. 1-2 only.
Binding: England, s. xx. Rigid vellum case with gold-tooled title on
spine: "Jacques d'Ascoli - Quaestiones Disputatae - England, XV Cent."
Written in England in the second half of the 15th century to judge from the
script and the textual variants in arts. 1-2; provenance unknown. Purchased
from C. A. Stonehill on 1958 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: similitudine [?]
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 87, no. 203.
Barbara A. Shailor