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 Most of the text is now superceded by modern critical editions, but it is of historical interest since Scotists of the Golden Age referred to it.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.


  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).↩︎