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Quaestio utrum illud quod intelligunt motores celorum seu orbium sit unum vel aliud et aliud

Author

Mathaeus de Eugubio

Typology

Collectio quaestionum

Quaestio

Repetitio

Date

1327 - 1347

  • In the absence of precise information regarding the dating of the work, the dates refer to the author’s period of activity.

  • This is a collection of questions. In particular, Matteo himself states that he undertook the investigation of these topics at the request of his own students and some friends, as they had not been addressed in Bologna during that academic year. He presents four distinct questions in sequence, with only the last one being the “main” question:

    • <1> Utrum in intelligentiis sit dare intellectum possibilem realiter distinctum ab actualitate ipsarum, ut videtur velle Averroes 3 De anima disgressione prima commento 5 (fols. 94rb-96rb);

    • <2> Utrum deus intelligat intelligentias et aliud extra se (fols. 96rb-100ra);

    • <3> Utrum intelligentie intelligant deum (fol. 100ra);

    • <4> Quarto et ultimo inquiram propositum principale iuxta posse (fols. 100ra-100va).

Studies

  • Maier A., Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des italienischen Averroismus im 14. Jh., “Quellen und Forschungen aus den italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken” 33, 1944: 143
  • Maier A., Eine italienische Averroistenschule aus der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, in “Die Vorläufer Galileis im 14. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik”, Roma 1949: 251-278
  • Ermatinger C.J., Averroism in Early Fourteenth Century Bologna, “Mediaeval Studies” 16, 1954: 40
  • Piana C., Nuovo contributo allo studio delle correnti dottrinali nell’Università di Bologna nel sec. XIV, “Antonianum” 18, 1948: 221-254.

Editions

  • Kuksewicz Z., Averroïsme Bolonais au XIVe siècle. Edition des textes, Wroclaw-Varsovie-Cracovie 1965: 235-239

 

Questio est utrum illud quod intelligunt motores celorum seu orbium sit unum et idem vel aliud et aliud. Verbi gratia, ut quod intelligit motor solis sit aliud ab eo quod intelligit motor Saturni, et hoc dico secundum mentem Aristotelis et sui Commentatoris […]

Explicit questio disputata per magistrum Matheum de Eugubio in Bononia scripta pro reverendo in Christo patre et domino domino P. N. abbate sancti Gregorii de Urbe dignissimo, sedente Alexandro pontifice maximo, pontificatus sui anno secundo, XI Aprilis 1494. Foeliciter.

Jacopo Lohs