Galina Vdovina. Antonius Syrectus and the tradition of the “Treatises on Formalities”. Vol. 1. No. 2. 2016

Publication Details

Abstract

The article is devoted to Antonius Syrctus, a Franciscan theologian of the late 15^th century. Syrectus was one of the key authors from the so called formalist tradition which had originated in the Duns Scotus’ doctrine on the formal non-identity between divine Persons and divine attributes. In this tradition formalities are understood as meaningful elements of quiddity. Each of them can be expressed in a separate concept. But the elements neither are distinguished in such a manner as one thing can be distinct from another, nor can be reduced to pure products of a conceptual distinction. The first part of the article considers stages of the tradition formation during the 14^th century, related with the names of Franciscus of Mayrone, Nicolas Bonetus and Petrus Thomae. It was the time when a canonical set of seven distinctions was formed, including the formal distinction as only one of them. The second part of the article gives accessible biographical information about Syrectus, which is very concise. Syrectus was a French Franciscan from the second half of the 15^th century, an author of a “Treatise on Formalities” inaugurating a new stage in the development of the formalist tradition. The article describes the structure of the treatise, notes its great influence on the Franciscus’ contemporaries and existence of a significant quantity of commentaries to it written in late 15^th–16^th centuries. The text gives data about actual status of studies which are dedicated to the formalist tradition in general and to Syrectus, particularly. At the end of the article one can find a selected bibliography on the topic. As attachment to the article, the first part of the Syrectus’ “Tractatus formalitatum” is published in Russian translation according to the following edition: Antonius Sirectus. Quinque illustrium auctorum Formalitatum Libelli. Venetiis: Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1588.

Keywords

Scholasticism, scotism, formal distinction, formalist traditiion, Duns Scotus, Antonius Sirectus, Franciscus of Mayrone, Nicolas Bonetus, Petrus Thomae.

References 

Andersen C. A. (2011) “Introducció — Introduction”. Petrus Thomae. Tractatus brevis de modis distinctionum (ed. by C. L. Alcalde, J. Batalla; intr. by C. A. Andersen; in collaboration with R. D. Hughes). Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edendum: 12–270.

Andersen C. A. (2016) Metaphysik im Barockscotismus. Untersuchungen zum Metaphysikwerk des Bartholomaeus Mastrius. Mit Dokumentation der Metaphysik in der scotistischen Tradition ca. 1620–1750. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Antonius Possevinus (1608) Apparatus sacer. Tomus I. Coloniae: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum sub Monocerote.

Antonius Sirectus (1484) Formalitates moderniores de mente clarissimi Doctoris Subtilis Scoti florentissimo parisiensi gygnasio complilatae per excellentem sacrae Theologiae professorem magistrem Antonium Sirecti provinciae Turoniae ordinis minorem. Venetiis: Bernardinus Stagninus de Tridino.

Antonius Sirectus (1501) Formalitates de mente doctoris subtilis Scoti, nec non Stephani Burlifer cum novis additionibus et concordantiis magistri Mauricii Hibernici in margine, decoratae. Venetiis: Luere.

Antonius Sirectus (1588) Quinque illustrium auctorum Formalitatum Libelli. Venetiis: Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem.

Aristoteles (1550) Aristotelis Opera cum Averrois commentariis. Vol. V. Aristotelis Stagiritae De coelo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologicorum, De plantis libri, cum Averrois Cordubensis variis in eosdem commentariis. Venetiis: Apud Junctas (Editio Juntina prima).

Aristoteles (1554) Aristotelis Stagiritae De physico auditu libri octo… Cum scholijs, argumentis, ac varietatibus lectionum nuper additis. Auerrois Corduben. Venetiis: Apud Plinium Petramsanctam.

Aristoteles (1562) Aristotelis Opera cum Averrois commentariis. Vol. VIII. Aristotelis Metaphysicorum libri XIIII cum Averrois Cordubensis in eosdem commentariis et epitome, Theophrasti metaphysicorum liber. Venetiis: Apud Junctas (Editio Juntina secunda).

Aristoteles (1831) Aristotelis opera. Vol. 1–2. Aristoteles Graece (ed. Imm. Bekker). Ed. Academia Regia Borussica. Berolini: Apud Georgium Reimerum.

Aristoteles (1978) “Topika” [Topics]. Aristotle. Soch.: v 4 t. T. 2 [Aristoteles. Works in 4 vol. Vol. 2]. Moscow: Mysl’ (Filosofskoe nasledie. T. 76 [Philosophical Heritage. Vol. 76]): 347–531. (in Russian).

Augustinus Musaeus Tarvisinus (1524) Tractatus de formalibus et modalibus distinctionibus, tum realibus, tum Rationis: et utrarumque graduali Latitudine, ad aures fundatissime Doctoris D. Egidii Romani Eremite Augustiniani Bituricensis Archiepiscopi, per Fratrem Augustinum Museum Tarvisinum Sacre Theologie Lectorem in Gymnasio S. Iacobi Bonon. eiusdem Ordinis nuper editum. Boloniae: Per Iustinianum de Ruberia.

Aurelius Augustinus (1968) Sancti Aurelii Augustini De Trinitate libri XV (ed. W. J. Mountain, Fr. Glorie). T. I (libri I–XII), T. II (libri XIII–XV) (Aurelii Augustini Opera. Pars XVI, 1–2). Turnholti: Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina. Vol. 50).

Bartolomaeus Manzolus (1518) Formalitates secundum viam Sancti Thomae. Libellus de distinctionibus. Boloniae: Impensis Hieronymi de Benedictis.

Bartolomaeus Mastrius (1678) Philosophiæ ad mentem Scoti cursus integer. Tomus quartus continens disputationes ad mentem Scoti in duodecim Aristotelis Stagiritæ libros Metaphysicorum pars prior. Venetiis: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana.

Bolliger D. (2003) Infiniti contemplatio: Grundzuge Der Scotus- und Scotismusrezeption Im Werk Huldrych Zwinglis. Leiden: Brill (Studies in the History of Christian Thought).

Bridges G. G. (1959) Indentity and Distinction in Petrus Thomae, O.F.M. New York: The Franciscan Institute St Bonaventure.

Dumont S. D. (2005) “Duns Scotus’s Parisian Question on the Formal Distinction”. Vivarium. Vol. 43. Issue 1: 7–62.

Franciscus Arretinus (1606) Expositio exactissima, atque absolutissima identitatum, et distinctionum (quas Formalitates vocant) Magistri Antonii Sirecti Doct. Paris. Venetiis: Apud Iohannem Antonium & Iacobum de Franciscis.

Franciscus de Marchia (1997) Quodlibet cum quaestionibus selectis ex commentario in librum sententiarum (critice ed. a N. Mariani OFM). Roma – Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas.

Franciscus (de Mayronis) (1490) De Formalitatibus. Ferrariae: Laurentius de Rubeis.

Franciscus de Mayronis (1520) In quatuor libros Sententiarum, ac quodlibeta, cum tractatibus formalitatum, et de primo principio, insuper explanatione divinorum terminorum, et tractatus de univocatione entis. Venetiis: Mandato et impensis Octaviani Scoti ac sociorum.

Gabriel De Zerbis (1482) Questiones metaphysicae. Bologna: Johannes de Nördlingen et Henricus de Harlem.

Grajewski M. J. (1944) The Formal Distinction of Duns Scotus. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.

Hervaeus Natalis (1513) Quodlibeta undecim Hervaei Natalis Britonis. Venetiis: Heredes Octaviani Scoti.

Hübener W. (1987) “Robertus Anglicus OFM und die formalistische Tradition”. Philosophie im Mittelalter. Entwicklungslinien und Paradigmen (hg. J. P. Beckmann u.a.). Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag: 329–353.

Hübener W. (2007) “‘Objektivität’ und ‘Realisierung’: zwei Beispiele für die Weiterarbeit der Aristotelischen Scholastik am metaphysischen Grundvokabular”. Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte. Bd. 49. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag: 53–68.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1950) Opera omnia. T. II. Ordinatio I, dist. 1–2. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, M. Bodewig, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, I. Jurić, I. Montalverne, S. Nanni, B. Pergamo, F. Prezioso, I. Reinhold, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1954) Opera omnia. T. III. Ordinatio I, dist. 3. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, M. Bodewig, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, B. Korošak, L. Modrić, I. Montalverne, S. Nanni, B. Pergamo, F. Prezioso, I. Reinhold, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1956) Opera omnia. T. IV. Ordinatio I, dist. 4–10. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, M. Bodewig, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, B. Korošak, L. Modrić, S. Nanni, I. Reinhold, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1960) Opera omnia. T. XVI. Lectura prologus; Lectura I, dist. 1–7. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, M. Bodewig, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, B. Korošak, L. Modrić, S. Nanni, I. Reinhold, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1963) Opera omnia. T. VI. Ordinatio I, dist. 26–48. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, M. Bodewig, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, B. Korošak, L. Modrić, S. Nanni, I. Reinhold, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1966) Opera omnia. T. XVII. Lectura I, dist. 8–45. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, C. Barbarić, S. Bušelić, P. Čapkun-Delić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, B. Korošak, L. Modrić, S. Nanni, S. Ruiz de Loizaga, C. Saco Alarcón, O. Schäfer). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1968) Ioannis Duns Scoti Quaestiones Quodlibetales. — Juan Duns Escoto. Cuestiones Cuodlibetales (ed. bilingüe, intr., resúmenes y versión de F. Alluntis). Madrid: La Editorial Católica (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos. Vol. 277).

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1973) Opera omnia. T. VII. Ordinatio II, dist. 1–3. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a C. Balić, C. Barbarić, S. Bušelić, B. Hechich, L. Modrić, S. Nanni, R. Rosini, S. Ruiz de Loizaga, C. Saco Alarcón). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (1982) Opera omnia. T. XVIII. Lectura II, dist. 1–6. Studio et cura Commissionis Scotisticae ad fidem codicum edita, praeside Carolo Balić (ed. a L. Modrić, S. Bušelić, B. Hechich, I. Jurić, I. Percan, R. Rosini, S. Ruiz de Loizaga, C. Saco Alarcón). Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (2006a) Opera philosophica. T. V. Quaestiones super secundum et tertium De anima (ed. a C. Bazán, K. Emery, R. Green, T. Noone, R. Plevano, A. Traver). Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press; St. Bonaventure, New York: The Franciscan Institute.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (2006b) Opera omnia. T. IX. Ordinatio III, dist. 1–17 (ed. a B. Hechich, B. Huculak, I. Percan, S. Ruiz de Loizaga). Città del Vaticano: Typis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Duns Scotus (2008) Opera omnia. T. XI. Ordinatio IV, dist. 1–7 (ed. a B. Hechich, B. Huculak, J. Percan, S. Ruiz de Loizaga, W. Salamon, G. Pica). Città del Vaticano: Typis Vaticanis.

Ioannes Vallone (1585) Lectura absolutissima super Formalitatibus Scoti. Parisiis: Apud Guillelmum Bichonium, via Iacobeae.

Joannes Hyacinthus Sbaralea (1806) Supplementum et castigatio ad scriptores trium ordinum S. Francisci a Waddingo, aliisve descriptos; cum adnotationibus ad Syllabum martyrum eorundem ordinum. Opus posthumum fr. Jo. Hyacinthi Sbaraleae. Romae: Ex typographia S. Michaelis ad Ripam, apud Linum Contedini.

Johannes Buridanus (2001) Summulae de Demonstrationibus (intr., critical ed., indexes by L. M. de Rijk). Groningen – Haren: Ingenium Publishers.

John Buridan (2001) Summulae de dialectica (tr. by G. Klima). New Haven; London: Yale University Press (Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy).

John Duns Scotus (2008) The Examined Report of the Paris Lecture: Reportatio I-A. Latin Text and English Translation. Vol. 2 (Dist. 22–48) (tr., ed. by A. B. Wolter, O. V. Bychkov). St. Bonaventure, New York: The Franciscan Institute.

Knebel S. K. (2002) “Entre logique mentaliste et metaphysique conceptualiste: la distinctio rationis ratiocinantis”. Les Études philosophique. Vol. 61. No. 2. Paris: P.U.F.: 145–168.

Laurentius Brixiensis (1537) Breves, faciles, ac perutiles Isagoges in Io. Scoti Formalitates. Brixie: Apud Damiano Turlino.

Lucas Wadding (1650) Scriptores Ordinis Minorum quibus accessit syllabus illorum qui ex eodem Ordine pro fide Christi fortiter occubuerunt, priores atramento, posteriores sanguin. christianam religionem asseruerunt. Romae: Ex Typographia Francisci Alberti Tani.

Marrone F. (2006) Res et realitas in Descartes. Gli antecedenti scolastici del concetto cartesiano di realitas obiectiva. Lecce: Conte Editore.

Marrone F. (2008) “Descartes e la tradizione scotista. Gli antecedenti storici della nozione di ‘realitas obiectiva’”. Quaestio. Annuario di storia della metafisica. Bd. 8. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers: 279–302.

Matthias Aquarius (1605) Formalitates iuxta doctrinam Angelici Doctoris D. Thomae Aquinatis. Neapoli: Vitalis.

Möhle H. (2007) Formalitas und Modus Intrinsecus. Die Entwicklung des scotischen Metaphysik bei Franciscus de Mayronis. Münster: Aschendorf (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters. Neue Folge. Bd. 70).

Nicolaus Bonetus (1489) Formalitates secundum viam Doctoris Subtilis. Venetiis: Bernardus de Choris, Simon de Luero.

Nicolaus Bonetus (1505) Quattuor volumina: Metaphysica, Physica, Liber predicamentorum, Theologia naturalis. Venetiis: Lorenzo Veniero.

Petrus Thomae (2011) Tractatus brevis de modis distinctionum (ed. by C. L. Alcalde, J. Batalla; intr. by C. A. Andersen; in collaboration with R. D. Hughes). Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edendum.

Poppi A. (1966) “Il contributo dei formalisti padovani al problema delle distinzioni”. Problemi e figure della scuola scotista del Santo. Padova: Beniamino Costa: 601–790.

Poppi A. (1989) La filosofia nello studio francescano del Santo a Padova. Padova: Centro Studi Antoniani.

Porphyrius (1887) Porphyrii Isagoge et In Aristotelis Categorias Commentarium (ed. A. Busse). Berolini: Typis et impensis Georgii Reimer (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca. Vol. IV. Pars 1).

Porphyrius (1939) “Vvedenie k Kategoriyam Aristotelya” [Introduction (or Isagoge) to the logical Categories of Aristotle]. Aristotle. Kategorii. S prilozheniem “Vvedeniya” Porfiriya k “Kategoriyam” Aristotelya [Aristotle. Categories. With the application “Introduction” of Porphyry to the “Categories” of Aristotle]. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe izdatel’stvo: 51–76. (in Russian).

Saint Augustine (1995) On Christian Teaching. — De Doctrina Christiana (ed., tr. by R. P. H. Green). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Vacant A., Mangenot E., Amann É. (eds.) (1941) Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. T. XIV. Pars 2. Parigi: Letouzey et Ané.

Vdovina G. V. (2015) “O ponyatii notio i notsional’nykh imenakh v trinitarnom bogoslovii srednevekovogo Zapada” [On the concept of notio and notional names in the Trinitarian theology of the medieval West]. Mera veshchei. Chelovek v istorii evropeiskoi mysli [The Measure of Things. Man in the history of European thought] (ed. by G. V. Vdovina). Moscow: Akvilon: 168–190. (in Russian).

Wolter A. B. (1990) The Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus (ed. by M. Adams). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

© Galina Vdovina, 2016