Wadding edition

The 1639 edition of Scotus’s works prepared by a team led by Luke Wadding was the standard text until the twentieth century. Most of the text is now superceded by modern critical editions, but it is of historical interest since Scotists of the Golden Age referred to it. Its commentaries can often be helpful for understanding Scotus today, despite the fact that they are commenting an interpolated and occasionally corrupt edition of Scotus’s works.

Its text and commentaries are reproduced in the Vivès edition, which is easier to read for those unfamiliar with the Latin orthography of the 1600s.

  • Vol. 1: Google Books (complutense, no frontispiece), GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • 1:1 Vita Scoti—not up to the standards of modern historiography
    • 1:45 Grammatica speculativa—spurious
    • 1:77 table of contents for the rest of the volume
    • 1:87 Quæstiones in Libros Porphyrii Isagoge—critical edition in Opera philosophica 1
    • 1:124 Quæstiones super praedicamenta Aristotelis—critical edition in Opera philosophica 1
    • 1:186 Quæstiones in primum librum Perihermenias Opus I—critical edition in Opera philosophica 2
    • 1:204 Quæstiones in secundum librum Perihermenias Opus I—this is actually part of opus II; critical edition in Opera philosophica 2
    • 1:211 Quæstiones in primum librum Perihermenias Opus II—critical edition in Opera philosophica 2
    • 1:224 Quæstiones super librum Elenchorum Aristotelis—critical edition in Opera philosophica 2
    • 1:273 In librum primum et secundum Priorum Analyticorum Aristotelis Quæstiones—spurious
    • 1:342 In librum primum et secundum Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis Quæstiones—spurious
    • 1:430 Mauritii a Portu expositio super quæstiones Scoti in Porphyrium
  • Vol. 2: GB, GB copy 2, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • 2:1–475 Commentaria in octo libros Physicorum cum adnotationibus Francisci a Pitigianis Aretini—spurious
    • 2:477–582 Quæstiones in libros de Anima imperfecti cum scholiis, et supplemento Hugonis Cavelli—critical edition in Opera philosophica 5
  • Vol. 3: GB, GB copy 2, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • 3:1 Tractatus de rerum principio, cum scholiis et notis Lucæ Waddingi—spurious
    • 3:209 Tractatus de primo principio, cum scholiis Cavelli, et adnotationibus Mauritii—more recent working editions exist
    • 3:261–338 Tractatus Theorematum cum eorumdem scholiis, et adnotationibus—critical edition in Opera philosophica 2
    • 3:339 Collationes triginta quinque, cum scholiis Cavelli
      • This and the following series of collationes jumble together the Collationes Oxonienses and Collationes Parisienses, without respecting the order of the questions in most manuscripts.
      • These represent scholastic exercises in which Scotus took part, so it is important to distinguish who is speaking in a given passage.
      • Alliney and Fideli have published a critical edition of the Collationes Oxonienses.1
    • 3:421 Collationes quatuor noviter addita cum scholiis et notis Waddingi
    • 3:431 Tractatus de cognitione Dei cum scholiis et notis Waddingi—probably spurious
    • 3:441 Quæstiones Miscellaneæ cum scholiis et notis Waddingi
      • Question 1 is the Questio de formalitatibus—critical edition by Emery and Smith.2
      • Questions 2–7 are spurious
    • 3:1 bis Meteorologicorum libri quatuor—spurious
  • Vol. 4: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • 4:1–462 Expositio in Metaphysicam, cum Summariis, et notis Cavelli—spurious
    • 4:463–495 Conclusiones Metaphysica cum notis ejusdem—spurious
    • 4:497–848 Quæstiones in Metaphysicam, cum adnotationibus Mauritii, scholiis, et notis Cavelli—only books I–IX are authentic; critical edition in Opera philosophica 3–4
  • Vol 5/1: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense I, prologus et dd. 1–7, cum commentatoriis Lycheti, supplemento R. P. Fr. Joannis Poncii, scholiis, et notis Cavelli–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 5/2: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense I, dd. 8–48, cum eisdem commentariis, scholiis, et notis–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 6/1: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense II, dd. 1–6, cum eisdem commentariis, supplemento, scholiis, et notis–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 6/2: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense II, dd. 7–44 cum eisdem commentariis, etc.–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 7/1: GB, GB copy 2, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense III, dd. 1–25, cum eisdem commentariis, etc.–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 7/2: IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense III, dd. 26–40, cum eisdem etc. et integris commentariis R. P. Poncii a distinctione 34. usque ad finem–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 8: IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense IV, dd. 1–13, cum scholiis, et notis Cavelli, et integris commentariis R. P. Fr. Antonii Hiquæi–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 9: GB, GB copy 2, GB copy 3, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense IV, dd. 24–42, cum scholiis, etc. et commentariis Hiquæi–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 10: IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Opus Oxoniense IV, dd. 43–50, cum scholiis, etc. et commentariis Hiquæi–the critical edition of the Ordinatio is the Vatican edition
  • Vol. 11/1: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • 11/1:1 Rep. Par. I, cum scholiis, et notis Cavelli, et Waddingi—this is not a reportatio, but William of Alnwick (ed.), Additiones magnae I
    • 11/1:239 Rep. Par. II, cum scholiis, et notis Cavelli, et Waddingi—this is not a reportatio, but William of Alnwick (ed.), Additiones magnae II
    • 11/1:419 Rep. Par III (= Rep. III A), cum scholiis, et notis Cavelli, et Waddingi
  • Vol. 11/2: GB, IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Rep. Par. IV (= Rep. IV A), cum scholiis, et notis Cavelli, et Waddingi
  • Vol. 12: GB, GB copy 2 (frontispiece badly cropped), IA Hildesheim G. Olms reprint
    • Quæstiones Quodlibetales, cum commentariis Lycheti, scholiis, et notis Cavelli—Alluntis published a working edition.3

  1. John Duns Scotus, Collationes Oxonienses, ed. Guido Alliney and Marina Fedeli (Firenze: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2016).↩︎

  2. Kent Emery Jr. and Garrett R. Smith, “The Quaestio de formalitatibus by John Duns Scotus, sometimes called the Logica Scoti,” Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014): 91–182, https://doi.org/10.1484/j.bpm.5.105347.↩︎

  3. John Duns Scotus, Cuestiones Cuodlibetales, trans. Felix Alluntis, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 277 (Madrid, 1968).↩︎