Logica Modernorum in Prague about 1400

The Sophistria Disputation 'Quoniam Quatuor' (MS Cracow, Jagiellonian Library 686, Ff. 1ra-79rb), with a Partial Reconstruction of Thomas of Cleves' Logica
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-14009-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 82, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1016 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters

An anonymous tract is preserved in Cracow, 'Jagiellonian Library' 686, ff. 1ra - 79rb. The tract is a specimen of the art of 'sophistria'. It is intended to help students avoid problems concerning fallacies and ambiguities of words.
The tract originates from Prague. It was written around 1400. The manuscript was brought to Cracow.
The 'contents' are primarily the logical and semantic topics also found in textbooks by Peter of Spain, Marsilius of Inghen, Thomas Manlevelt, Thomas of Cleves and Richard Billingham. The main topics are: 'sophistria' as a science; signification; syncategorematic terms; supposition; ampliation, restriction; complex signifiables, the significate of a proposition; mediate and immediate, resolvable, exponible and functionalizable terms; propositions with a term in the comparative or superlative form; exceptive, exclusive and reduplicative propositions.
Apart from the presentation of sometimes original views, one of the results of this edition is the partial reconstruction of the 'Logica' by a master 'Thomas of Cleves'. This 'Logica' has not been preserved elsewhere.
Our 'sophistria' is also worth study as a testimony of the use made around 1400 of the works of Richard Billingham who wrote an influential 'Speculum puerorum'. Billingham is especially interested to test propositions by individual things in reality. This logical handbook was a kind of successor and alternative to Peter of Spain's 'Tractatus'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bos, E P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 3

1. On the edition of the Prague Sophistriatract. 3
2. The Prague Sophistria. 5
3. Another sophistria, namely Ms Vienna, Österr. Nazionalbibl., VPL 4785 (Lunael. O 150), fols. 233v–280v (8o). 21
5. A few notes on the contents. 27
6. Some notes on logicians and approaches to logic before our sophistria. 33
7. The place of the sophistria genre in the history of medieval
logic. 35
8. Constitution of the text. 37
9. Bibliography. 38

the edition
Sigla. 44

Tractatus I: De sophistria ut scientia. 45

Tractatus secundus: De probationibus propositionum / De propositione demonstrativa. 349

appendices
Appendix I.1. Thomas de Clivis, Logica (on basis of MS Cracow, Bibl. Jag., 686, 1ra–79ra). 435
Appendix I.2. Thomas de Clivis, Logica, based on other sources 449
Appendix II.1. List of questions in MS Vienna, Österreichische Nazionalbibliothek, 4785, fols. 233v–280v. 453
Appendix II.2. Qu. 18 of MS Vienna, Öst. Naz., 4785. 457
Appendix III. The sophistria of MS C and Billingham’s De probationibus terminorum. 461

indices
Indices to the Introduction. 465
Index of Terms. 465
Index of Ancient and Medieval Names. 466
Index of Modern Names. 467
Index of Manuscripts. 467
Indices to the Edition. 469
Selective Index of Latin Terms. 469
Index Locorum. 476

Über Autor(innen)

Egbert P. Bos, Ph.D. (1980), is University Lecturer at the University of Leiden. He has published editions and studies on medieval semantics.