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Quaestio utrum de necessitate omnia eveniant, an sit aliquid casuale et fortuitum

Author

Cambiolus Bononiensis

Typology

Quaestio

Date

1320 - 1330

  • Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Manoscritti 380
    • Maier believes that this question was part of a commentary on Physics (cf. Maier 1964: 262-3). Lohr also believes this, and reports it as a fragment of some Quaestiones in Physica (Lohr 1967: 392).
    • The only useful date about Cambiolus’s work is found in Ms Vat. Ottob. 318, fol. 8r: “Expl. questio determinata per magistrum Cambiolum Bononiensem in Bononia, quam disputavit 1333”. The codex, as Maier notes, mostly contains “Quaestionen, di in den 20er, 30er un 40er Jahren des 14. Jahrhunderts in Bologna disputiert werden” (Maier 1944: 138). As Ermantinger notes, if all the questions contained in the ms. Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana, Manuscripts 380 came from the same commentary on Physics, “then they may have a terminus ante quem considerably earlier than the approximate period of composition – early 1330’s, if Cambiolus Bononiensis is the author – suggested for the single question in the Ottoboni manuscript” (cf. Ermantinger 1970: 71).
    • This quaestio has been the focus of attention in the literature because of a reference to a text by Sigerus de Brabantia that initially went unidentified (cf. Maier 1956: 307; 1964: 262-3). Calma has then identified this text as Sigerus de Brabantia’s Questio super VI Metaphysice and edited it (Calma 2011: 213-226).

     

  • Natural Philosophy

    • Studies

    • Calma D., Études sur le premier siècle de l’averroïsme latin: Approches et textes inédits, Turnhout 2011
    • Ermatinger C. J., Averroism in Early Fourteenth Century Bologna, “Mediaeval Studies” 16, 1954
    • Ermatinger C. J., Some Unstudied Sources for the History of Philosophy in the Fourteenth Century (Conclusion), “Manuscripta” 14, 1970: 35-36
    • Maier A., Die Bologneser Philosophen des 14. Jahrhunderts, in “Studi e memorie per la storia dell’Università di Bologna”, Bologna 1956
    • Maier A., Ausgehendes Mittelalter Gesammelte Aufsätze Zur Geistesgeschichte Des 14. Jahrhunderts, Roma 1964
    • Saccenti R., Understanding and Acting: Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d’Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna), in “Willing and Understanding”, Leiden 2023
    • Lohr C. H., Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors A – Johannes Juff, New York 1967

    Editions

    • Kuksewicz Z. (ed.), Averroisme Bolonais Au Xive Siècle: Edition De Textes, Wroclaw-Varsovie-Cracovie, 1965: 127-146

    Questio est, utrum de necessitate omnia eveniant, an sit aliquid casuale et fortuitum. Et arguitur, quod omnia de necessitate eveniant, et quod inichil sit a casu et fortuna […]

    […] quia ut in pluribus accidit sic, si non presciuntur, quia ut in pluribus, si non presciuntur, secuntur motus corporum celestium, ut iam dictum est. Et sic de isto. Explicit questio bona scripta pro reverendo in Christo patre et domino domino P. de Nigrono Ianuensi abbate sancti Gregorii de Urbe, sedente Alexandro pontifice maximo, pontificatus sui anno secundo, 21a Februarii que fuit statio ad Sanctos Apostolos 1494.

    Matteo Stettler