Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 378: Logic Texts
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 378 is a compendium of tracts on logic, dating to c. 1475-1500, very probably put together for use at Cambridge University. This manuscript contains what may be the primary, and only extant, copy of William Chubbes' introduction to logic, the Bene fundatum (Introductio logices). Chubbes was the first Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1497 to his death in 1505 and perhaps it was this Cambridge connection that interested Parker in this manuscript. On ff. 74v and 75r there are drawings of various sorts of 'bodies' which seem to be intended to illustrate the concepts of logic in the preceding text.
- Contents
- SummuleDe consequentiaDe suppositionibus -- De resolubilibus -- De dictionibus que habent vim confundendiDe modo dandi contradictoria -- Obligationes -- De objectionibus consequentarium -- De reduplicationibus -- Introductiones naturalium -- De insolubilibus -- Tractatus argumentationis -- Logical tracts. Incipiunt Quidlibet incipit esse quod sit sopisma and Nulla differunt quod sophisma sit verum -- Logical tract. Incipit Sophisma est hoc. scitum est non scitum -- Logical tract. Incipit Necessarium est non necessarium probatur sic -- Liber apparentiarum -- Logical tract. Incipit Pro materia de proposicione equiuocacio terminorum -- Introductio logices
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kg119xq9390/MS_378.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rg788dy6836/378.pdf
- Contains
-
- Summule. De consequentia. De suppositionibus. 1r-34v
- Incipit
- (1r) Proposicio est oratio indicatiua congrua et perfecta
- Note
-
(34v) Ends with verses
=MS 244. 1 - Explicit
- (34v) Si sit discretum discrete semper habetur
- Rubric
- (34v) Explicit communis tractatus. Quod (erased: l...sted)
- De resolubilibus. 34v-45v
- James
- Tractatus aureus. 34v-45v
- Note
- After a diagrammatic formula
- Incipit
- (34v) Terminus est in quem resoluitur proposicio
- Explicit
- (45v) ut nullus homo currit
- Rubric
- (45v) Explicit tractatus aureus quod bartholomeus
- De dictionibus que habent vim confundendi. De modo dandi contradictoria. 45v-47v
- Incipit
- (45v) Sequitur de dictionibus que habent vim confundendi terminos
- Explicit
- (47v) vel iste homo currit
- Richard Billingham, Obligationes. 48r-57v
- Author
- Richard Billingham
- Incipit
- (48r) Obligacio est quedam ars mete in qua quis apponens potest obligare respondentem
- Note
-
Has rather a pretty pen and ink initial
(57r) Ends unfinished (?)
(57v) blank
- De objectionibus consequentarium. 58r-66v
- Incipit
- (58r) Consequenciarum quedam sunt obiectiones ponende et soluende
- Note
-
(64v) Ends unfinished (?)
ff. 65r-66v blank
- De reduplicationibus. 67r-68r
- Incipit
- (67r) Pro faciliori iuuenum Informacione viam ostendo probabilem de reduplicatiuis
- Explicit
- (68r) ad sua inferiora descendere, etc. finis
- Thomas Netter of Walden OCarm (attrib.), Introductiones naturalium. 68v-76v
- Author
- Thomas Netter of Walden OCarm (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (68v) Natura est duplex scilicet natura naturans et natura naturata
- Note
-
=MS 244. 5
On ff. 74v, 75r are drawings of various sorts of bodies. A mace with battlemented head, the Ptolemaic sphere, a pear, an arrow-head, a stone (?) with a face in it, etc.
ff. 75v-76v blank
- De insolubilibus. 77r-81v
- Incipit
- (77r) Quatuor sunt diuisiones proposicionum quarum prima est hec
- Note
-
(80v) ?unfinished
ff. 81r-81v blank
=MS 244. 3
- Tractatus argumentationis. 82r-86v
- Incipit
- (82r) Iuxta hunc textum tactum in libro periarmenias de quolibet dicitur affirmacio uel negacio
- Note
-
=MS 244. 2
Ends - Explicit
- (85v) non ens est non homo
- Note
- f. 85r-85v blank
- Logical tracts. Incipiunt Quidlibet incipit esse quod sit sopisma and Nulla differunt quod sophisma sit verum. 87r-92v
- Incipit
- (87r) Quidlibet incipit esse quod sit sopisma
- Note
- =MS 244. 7
- Incipit
- (89r) Nulla differunt quod sophisma sit uerum
- Note
- ff. 90r-91v blank
- Logical tract. Incipit Sophisma est hoc. scitum est non scitum. 93r-96v
- Incipit
- (93r) Sophisma est hoc. scitum est non scitum
- Note
- ff. 93v-95v blank
- Logical tract. Incipit Necessarium est non necessarium probatur sic. 97r-99v
- Incipit
- (97r) Necessarium est non necessarium probatur sic
- Note
- ff. 97r-98v blank
- Liber apparentiarum. 100r-102v
- Incipit
- (100r) Circa materiam apparencie multa concurrunt dubia
- Note
- (101v) On lower margin a rather good drawing of a man's bust with triangle described on it
- Logical tract. Incipit Pro materia de proposicione equiuocacio terminorum. 103r-104v
- Incipit
- (103r) Pro materia de proposicione equiuocacio terminorum (?)
- Note
- (104v) blank
- William Chubbes (attrib.), Introductio logices. 105r-108v
- Author
- William Chubbes (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (105r) Bene fundatum pre exigit debitum fundamentum
- Note
-
(107r) Ends unfinished (?)
ff. 106v-107r blank - Incipit
- (108v) Barbara celarent, etc.
- Note
- The Rev. Christopher Wordsworth suggests that Art. 14 is the original Benefundatum of Will. Chubbes, first master of Jesus College. The incipit here agrees with that given by Bale (Index, p. 149) for his work
- Summule. De consequentia. De suppositionibus. 1r-34v
- TJames
- 337
- Stanley
- 15. 2
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/pj359yj7700
- MS 378
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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