Duns Scotus online

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Duns Scotus Online

1. Bibliography
2. Duns Scotus on Google Book Search
3. Other online texts

I make no pretensions to this page providing a systematic guide to Scotist material that is available online. But there are some useful resources available that are not easily stumbled across, so I thought there might be some use to this collection of links. If I have omitted something especially useful, please let me know.

Bibliography

Tobias Hoffman has compiled a splendid bibliography of Duns Scotus. It includes editions, translations, and secondary works on both Duns Scotists and later Scotists. It's well-organized and includes several very useful indices. Available here.

Duns Scotus on Google Book Search

Google Book Search has scanned a copy of the 1891 Vives edition of the Opera Omnia edited by Wadding. It should be remarked that this is not a critical edition; its problems are well-known to Scotus scholars. It is, however, the only edition we have of significant parts of Scotus's corpus, a fact painfully well-known to scholars. Another reason to use this edition is that it provides a commentary on the text; so, if, for example, one is interested in Lychetus's commentary on Scotus, this is the most convenient place to find it.

Google's scan suffers from the same limitations noted here about the scan of Suarez's Opera Omnia. The OCR is even worse, i.e., completely useless.

A few volumes seem not to be available, as you can see below. But in many cases scans are available of two different copies. I have provided links to both, in case one fails to work, has missing pages, etc.:

Tomus I - Quaestiones: Super Universalia; Super Praedicamenta; Super lib. I Perihermenias Aristotelis; In II librum Perihermenias; Secundi Operis Perihermenias.

Tomus 2 - Quaestiones: Super libros Elenchorum Aristotelis; Super lib. I Priorum; Super lib. II Priorum; Super lib. I Posteriorum; Super lib. II Posteriorum; In libros I, II et III Physicorum. Copy 2.

Tomus 3 - Quaestiones: In libros IV, V, VI, VII, VIII Physicorum Aristotelis; In libros Aristotelis de Anima. Copy 2.

Tomus 4 - Quaestiones: Meteorologicae; De Rerum Principio; De Primo Rerum omnium Principio. Copy 2.

Tomus 5 - NA.

Tomus 6 - Metaphysicae textualis libri V - XII; Conclusiones Metaphysicae.

Tomus 7 - Quaestiones subtilissimae super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis.

Tomus 8 - NA.

Tomus 9 - NA.

Tomus 10 - Quaestiones in primum librum sententiarum, dist. 14-28. Copy 2.

Tomus 11 - Quaestiones in secundum librum sententiarum, dist. 1-2.

Tomus 12 - Quaestiones in secundum librum sententiarum, dist. 3-14.

Tomus 13 - Quaestiones in secundum librum sententiarum, dist. 15-24. Copy 2.

Tomus 14 - Quaestiones in tertium librum sententiarum, dist. 1-22.