William of Ockham: Dialogus

 ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES

by John Kilcullen, George Knysh & John Scott

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PRINTED VOLUMES

A critical edition of the Latin text of the whole Dialogus has now been published in print in the British Academy series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi:

Part 1, Books 1-5, ABMA vol. 35
Part 1, Book 6, ABMA
vol. 41
Part 1, Book 7, ABMA
vol. 42
Part 2, ABMA
vol. 20
Part 3, Tract 1, ABMA
vol. 20
Part 3, Tract 2, ABMA
vol. 33
English translation of Part 1 Books 1-5 and Against John chs. 5-16, ABMA vol. 43




TRANSLATION

The whole Dialogus has also been translated into English, and some of it into German (here, here, here and here) and Italian.

Some English translation is included in William of Ockham, 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other writings (Cambridge, 1995), some in 
ABMA vol. 43. English translation of the rest is linked to the following analysis of the argument.

Analysis of the argument of the Dialogus:
Part 1 Books 1-5
Part 1 Book 6
Part 1 Book 7
Part 2
Part 3 Tract 1
Part 3 Tract 2




COMPLEMENTARY TO THE PRINTED VOLUMES

Ockham and the Dialogus
Plan of the Dialogus
Reference system
Editorial policy followed in making the critical edition
Descriptions of manuscripts and incunabula
on which the edition was based.
Coherence
of the critical edition

Discussion of textual problems, collations, regularised transcriptions of witnesses, etc.:
Conventions used in collations
Part 1 Books 1-5

Part 1 Books 6 and 7

Part 2

Part 3 Tract 1

Part 3 Tract 2.




STUDIES AND OTHER MATERIAL

Tabula super Dialogum in OxAvVfVc

Chapter headings in Ox
Chapter headings in Ly

Ockham's References to the Dialogus or its Parts.

Translations of papal documents relating to the Franciscan idea of poverty
(Exiit qui seminat, Exivi de Paradiso, Quia nonnunquam, Ad conditorem, Cum inter nonnullos, Quia quorundam, Quia vir reprobus)
 
Theologians vs canonists on heresy
Ockham and infallibility
Ockham's political writings
Ockham and Marsilius
Ockham's philosophy and theology

Relationships among manuscripts and editions
Omissions or additions? Some passages found in MSS of the A and B groups and not in E
Significant omissions