Alcune osservazioni sulle fasi redazionali del Commento al I libro delle Sentenze di Durando di San Porciano

Joseph Kock, the foremost scholar of the works of Durand of St. Pourçain, maintains that the First Book of his Commentary on the Sentences did not undergo revision, despite alterations to the Second and Fourth Books. My research, however, demonstrates considerable modifications in the First Book. This is evident both through internal indications in the text and the presence of external testimony to these modifications; two manuscripts from the Evidentiae contra Durandum, attributed to Durandellus, a well known Thomist critic of Durand, add five new arguments taken from the new work (in novo opere) which are preserved in Durand's imparted text. On the basis of this evidence this article argues that the manuscript tradition of the First Book reveals a very elaborate phase that can be considered a second redaction. [Publisher's text]