Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi Fasc. XV SUMMA GRAMATICA MAGISTRI ROGERI BACON NECNON SUMULE DIALECTICES MAGISTRI ROGERI BACON NUNC PRIMUM EDIDIT ROBERT STEELE HON. D.LITT. DURHAM; CORRESPONDING FELLOW, MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA OXONII E TYPOGRAPHEO CLARENDONIANO LONDONI: APUD HUMPHREDUM MILFORD M CM XL 250598 : b 7 (oS 3 ^ j boston college librae chestnut hill, mass. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN N. P. M. M. in caram memoriam R. S. r i I CONTENTS Introduction xi Note on British Museum MS. Sloane 2156 xxiv Summa GrAMATICA De construccione 1 an construatur omne suppositum a parte ante cum verbo ita quod exigatur 8 si est construccio inter nomen et verbum n De figurativis locucionibus utrum locucio figurativa sit simpliciter incongrua vel non 13 utrum sit perfecta 14 De perfeccione oracionis 17 quantum ad intellectum vel sensum 20 de distinccione inter intellectum primum vel secundum 21 De antithesi 27 ‘pars est pugnare parati* 29 ‘ urbem quam statuo vestra est ’ 33 quid sit primo constructibile in hac oracione 33 si sit aliqua racio excusans 35 De sinthesi vel apposicione 43 utrum apposicione posset fieri 44 de ordine eorum que apponuntur 46 an aliqua sit inproprietas in hujusmodi construccione 48 an ‘ apros animal propter convivia natum * possit sustineri 5 2 De prolemptica construccione ‘alter in alterius jactantes lumina vultus querebant taciti* 55 an debeat verbum repeti cum dividentibus 55 an hic sit aliqua incongruitas 56 que sit racio excusans 57 de construccione hujus participii ‘jactantes ' cum hoc verbo ‘querebant* 60 De sylemptica construccione 64 ‘ Imphytus et Peleas mecum divellimur ambo ’ 64 de construccione istorum nominativorum ‘Imphytus et Peleas * 66 VI quid hic sit concipiens, posito quod hic sit concepcio 66 de inproprietate istius figure 71 De zeumatica construccione 71 ‘ hic illius arma hic currus fuit ’ 71 utrum verbum debeat repeti vel non 72 si sit figura, que sit inproprietas et que sit racio excusans 72 De construccionibus inpersonalibus 74 ‘ Matheum legitur, psalmos erat ante legendum’ 74 de construccione hujus verbi ‘legitur’ 74 an sit perfecta ‘ psalmos erat ante legendum ’ 78 an verbum possit inpersonari 78 an possit ‘ est ’ inpersonari 80 De gerundio an possit gerundium reddere suppositum verbo racione infinitivi intellecti 86 an possit reddere suppositum racione dignitatis vel debiti intellecti in illo 89 de isto sermone ‘ sillogizantem ponendum est terminos ’ 94 De interjeccione 95 ‘ proch dolor o socii ’ 95 de construccione istorum adinvicem 97 de ordinacione interjeccionis cum nomine sequente : an exigere possit casum rectum a parte post 98 queritur a quo regatur iste nominativus 101 de oracione secunda ‘ o socii ’: de adverbiis 105 de ordinacione adverbii ad vocativum 107 an adverbium exigat vocativum 108 utrum iste vocativus ‘ magister ’ absolute ponatur vel non 109 ‘ o magister, te non legente etc.’ 109 de ablativo absoluto et de interjeccione 113 de ordinacione interjeccionis ad dativum 117 ‘modio vini ad denarium, ve illi qui non habent argentum’ 119 De ablativo absoluto: ‘ dicto de genere dicendum est de specie’ 121 ‘est dies’ 123 Vll ‘ Moris erat Persis ducibus tunc temporis omnem ducere in arma domum’ 129 de construccione hujus dativi ‘ Persis ducibus’ 133 ‘Vestes quas geritis sordida lana fuit’ 135 quid reddat suppositum hoc verbo ‘geritis’ 137 ‘ Amatus sum vel fui ’ 145 quid sit suppositum 145 de ista circumlocucione 147 ‘Vado Romam que est pulcra civitas ’ 150 quid sit suppositum huic verbo ‘vado’ 150 de construccione eo quod est ‘ vado ’ cum verbo ‘Romam’ 152 de duobus que supponuntur prius 156 utrum li ‘ Romam ’ sit nomen vel adverbium 157 ‘Video centum homines uno minus’ 159 ‘iste vixit centum annos et eo amplius’ 160 ‘ in convertendo dominus captivitatem Syon ’ 160 ‘idem sibi’ 161 ‘ Lupus est in fabula ’ 161 * In nostro magistro habet bonum hominem ’ 162 ‘ Margarita est pulcherrimus lapidum ’ 163 ‘Quid nisi secrete leserunt Philide silve’ 164 ‘Nominativo, hic magister’ 165 De quibusdam casibus absolute positis 166 ‘virga tua et baculus tuus ipsa me consolata sunt’ 166 ‘detrahentem secreto proximo suo’ 166 ‘ hunc persequebar ’ 166 ‘ superbo oculo suo ’ 166 ‘ conscius ipse sibi ’ 166 De apposicione mediata 167 ‘ me miseram tacite quid vult sibi noctis ymago ’ 171 de numero plurali in nominibus propriis 172 ‘jactamus jampridem omnis te Roma beatum ’ 173 ‘ ex quo ita est quod dies est vado Romam ’ 174 ‘inter canem et lupum eundum est secure’ 176 viii ‘uterque vocatum Cipiones’ 178 ‘ego meorum solus sum meus* 178 De aliquibus locucionibus difficilibus 180 ‘ benedicite dominus ’ 180 ‘deo gracias’ 181 ‘ Dominus vobiscum : et cum spiritu tuo ’ 181 ‘per omnia secula seculorum, amen’ 182 ‘ sequencia sancti evangelii secundum Lucam * 183 ‘ ite, missa est ’ 183 ‘ Pater noster qui es in coelis ’ 184 * O vos omnes qui transitis per viam’ 184 ‘ in pace in id ipsum ’ 185 ‘ erat autem Margareta duo de viginti annorum * 185 ‘pridie kalendas Maii’ 185 ‘ video Marcum id est Tullium ’ 186 ecce ego, ecce hominem 186 non ego solus solus ego sed ego sumus unus et alter 186 vespere autem sabati que lucescit 189 Sumule Dialectices De introduccionibus 193 de proprio 199 de accidente 200 De predicabilibus : de antepredicamentis 203 De predicamentis 210 De predicamento relacionis 221 De predicamento qualitatis 226 De predicamento accionis 229 De predicamento passionis 230 De predicamento situs 230 De predicamento quando 231 De predicamento ubi 231 De predicamento habere 231 De enunciacione : de nomine 232 De verbo 237 De proposicione 240 De proposicionibus modalibus 255 De proposicionibus de vero et falso 263 IX De supposicione 268 De appellacione 277 De copulacione 289 De sillogismo: de conversione sillogismorum 289 De figuris sillogismi 298 De sillogismis demonstrativis : de causa 303 De loco: de sillogismo dyalectico 313 De sillogismo sophistico 324 De fallacia equivocacionis 330 De fallacia amphibologie 333 De fallacia composicionis 334 De fallacia divisionis 336 De fallacia secundum accentum 342 De fallacia figure diccionis 343 De fallacia accidentis 348 De fallacia consequentis 349 De fallacia secundum quid et simpliciter 350 De fallacia ignorancie elenchi 351 De fallacia peticionis principii 353 De fallacia secundum non-causam ut causam 353 De fallacia secundum interrogaciones 354 De sillogismo peccante in materia 355 Notes and Conjectural Emendations 361 Authorities quoted 371 INTRODUCTION T he Summa Gramatica is found in two manuscripts, P. in Cambridge at Peterhouse College in the Codex 191 described by the late M. R. James, the other, W. in the library, Worcester Cathedral, numbered Q. 13. The former is in a book hand, evidently intended to form part of a library, the latter in the current hand of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries for the use of students. The existence of two manuscripts of diverse origin may be esteemed fortunate, as the scribal errors of each would arise from different causes. The errors of a stationer’s copy (since we cannot suppose an ‘ exemplar ’) would be due to a limited acquaintance with the subject-matter and an ignorance of its technical terms; the errors of a student’s copy would commonly arise from the omission of phrases of an explanatory nature too elementary to need repetition. As a result the text here printed has been founded on P. with numerous corrections from W. Thurot’s study (‘ Notices et Extraits de divers manuscrits Latins pour servir a l’histoire des doctrines grammaticales au Moyen Age,’ Notices et Extraits. xxii. 2, Paris, 1868) of grammatical teaching in the Middle Ages tells us little or nothing of the nature of its scholastic treatment in Paris and Oxford during the greater part of the thirteenth century. As a consequence this treatise is a very welcome addition to our knowledge of grammatical theory, coming as it does between the systematic course of Petrus Helyas at the end of the twelfth century and the condemned propositions of 1277. It is obviously a set of lectures delivered during Bacon’s regent mastership in one of the compulsory courses on Priscian’s de Constructione (the last two books of his great treatise) which most probably were fundamentally necessary, even before the statute of 1215, which is our earliest record of the complete Arts curriculum at Paris. The main object of this tract is to elucidate the principles of figurative construction, and to