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January 24, 2026Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale0 citations

News from Fifteenth-century University Philosophy: Identifications of Manuscripts from the Paris Arts Faculty

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APAurora Panzica

Key Points

  • The research aims to identify manuscript attributions within the fifteen-century Paris Arts Faculty, clarifying authorship of key philosophical commentaries.
  • Conducted direct inspections of historical manuscripts.
  • Analyzed bibliographical attributions and traditional authorship.
  • Identified authorship discrepancies in existing commentaries.
  • Examined three key manuscripts related to logical and natural philosophy.
  • Revealed that manuscripts attributed to Guillelmus de Curis actually belong to Johannes Versoris.
  • Attributed commentaries previously ascribed to Petrus Tartaretus to Johannes Damoisiau.
  • Identified manuscripts from Johannes de Caulaincourt as significant contributions to natural philosophy.

Abstract

Abstract This article, divided into three parts, presents manuscript identifications from the fifteenth-century Paris Arts Faculty. The first case concerns manuscripts previously thought to transmit a commentary on Summule logicales by Peter of Spain, attributed to the Parisian master Guillelmus de Curis: direct inspection revealed that these manuscripts actually contain the commentary on the same text by Johannes Versoris, suggesting that Guillelmus de Curis’s commentary is likely a bibliographical ghost. The second part examines an anonymous codex containing commentaries on natural philosophy, traditionally ascribed to Petrus Tartaretus, which my research has attributed to Johannes Damoisiau. Finally, the third part reports the identification of two manuscripts transmitting commentaries on natural philosophy by Johannes de Caulaincourt (de Magistris).

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Aurora Panzica (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/697460cebb9d90c67120a9c5https://doi.org/10.1484/j.bpm.5.151711
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