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Richard Kilvington\'s Quaestiones super libros Physicorum. A Critical Edition with an Introduction

Richard Kilvington\'s Quaestiones super libros Physicorum. A Critical Edition with an Introduction

Elżbieta Jung

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In the late Middle Ages, natural philosophy focused primarily on the analysis of Aristotle's works, along with Averroes' commentaries. Among other works, Aristotle's Physics was taught at universities, and commentaries on it were the result of such classes.

The present book is the result of the lectures of Richard Kilvington (ca. 1302-1361), one of the founders of the so-called School of Oxford Calculators, English scholars active in the mid-14th century. The volume contains a critical edition of Richard Kilvington's Questions on the Physics from Latin manuscripts, provided with footnotes referring to the sources used by Kilvington, as well as to the works of his contemporaries. The edition is preceded by an introduction presenting the arguments for the reconstruction of this commentary and the history of the manuscripts containing Kilvington's questions.

This extensive commentary, which the author reconstructed on the basis of manuscript evidence, consists of eight so-called disputed questions. Kilvington discusses almost all the topics covered by Aristotle in his works on natural philosophy and the theory of knowledge, and logical considerations also occupy a considerable space. Kilvington is mainly interested in issues related to: the formation of complex material bodies, which occurs primarily in the process of mixing, the problem of describing the rules of local motion, and the conditions that determine such motion, i.e. the concepts of time, space, and vacuum. Kilvington's commentary is an original, sometimes innovative interpretation of the theories of Aristotle and Averroes. It was quoted many times and was an inspiration for contemporary and later thinkers. The research achievements of these thinkers contributed to the development of modern natural philosophy.

Acknowledgments        VII

 

Introduction    IX

Life and Works XI

The Manuscript Tradition of Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Physicorum      XVII

Authorship of the Questions    XVII

The Dispersed Tradition of Kilvington’s Questions          XXVI

The Structure of Kilvington’s Questions              XXVII

The Sources of Kilvington’s Questions; Kilvington’s Questions as a Source for Other Thinkers        XXXIII

Description of the Manuscripts XXXIV

Relations among the Manuscripts          XLIII

The Edition       LIX

Bibliographical References        LX

Abbreviations LXXII

Sigla      LXXIII

Basic Manuscripts Witnesses for the Critical Edition of the Single Question              LXXIII

 

Quaestiones super libros Physicorum   1

Proemium        3

Quaestio 1—Utrum omne quod generator ex contrariis generetur         5

Quaestio 2—Utrum in omni generatione tria principia requirantur        113

Expositio primi libri Physicorum             209

Quaestio 3—Utrum omne scitum sciatur per causam    252

Quaestio 4—Utrum omnis natura sit principium motus et quietis           391

Quaestio 5—Utrum aliquod corpus simplex possit moveri aeque velociter in vacuo et in pleno      421

Quaestio 6—Utrum qualitas suscipiat magis et minus   453

Quaestio 7—Utrum omne transmutatum in transmutationis initio sit in eo ad quod primitus transmutatur             535

Quaestio 8—Utrum in omni motu potentia motoris excedit potentiam rei motae 559

 

Bibliography    609

Index nominum in praefatione occurrentium    617

Index nominum locorumque in editione occurrentium 621

  • Title: Richard Kilvington\'s Quaestiones super libros Physicorum. A Critical Edition with an Introduction
  • Author: Elżbieta Jung
  • ISBN: 978-83-8331-737-3, 9788383317373
  • Date of issue: 2025-09-01
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_4k23
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego