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“The Victorine Pierre Leduc’s Collationes, Sermo finalis, and Principia on the Sentences, Paris 1382-1383,

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This article presents an edition of the collationes, sermo finalis, and principia on the Sentences of Pierre Leduc, from his year as Victorine bachelor of the Sentences at Paris in 1382-1383. The texts survive in manuscript Paris, BnF, lat. 14800, fully described, along with the contents, in the article in this issue of AHDLMA by W. J. Courtenay. This brief introduction concentrates on what these texts tell us about the practice of reading the Sentences at Paris on the eve of the departure of the Dominicans as a result of the Monzon Affair over the Immaculate Conception. They then lectured on book I of the Sentences in October, November, and December, and repeated the speeches and questions process for the other three books in early January, March, and May, before finishing their lecture series in the second half of June with a final speech. Pierre Leduc is valuable for his explanation and use of terminology 2. In the second, third, and fourth speeches, after invoking the aid of the Mother of God, Christ, and St Augustine, Pierre says he will have to do three things « in the present principium », although in the first speech he says « in the present stadium ». These three things are to open with a « collatio recommendativa », add a « quaestio conclusiva », and render a « gratiarum actio recompensativa ». Thus Pierre uses the term principium for all three parts, but the label principium is also employed for each of his four questions and, frequently, within these questions, when referring to his other questions and those of his socii, Pierre calls them principia. Thus principium has a wider meaning for the entire event and a narrower meaning for the question alone, and it is the latter sense I use here. The speech is called a collatio recommendativa, which is why in many cases it is simply named a collatio or a recommendatio. Each of Pierre's speeches is labelled a collatio and ends with « Explicit collatio » followed by the book of the Sentences. Nevertheless, within the questions Pierre once uses the term collatio to mean a conference, exchange, or debate with his socii, such that in the second principium he says that he posits something « causa collationis » to excourage discussion, while in the first and fourth principia he holds or posits something only « collative », and in the second he mentions his « articuli collativi » and in fourth his four « propositiones collativae ». Likewise, in the fourth question he remarks that « cum pluribus habeo conferre », « non habeo pro praesenti plus conferre », and « ut cum ipso conferam », a phrase he employed in his second question as well, where we also find « ut possim secum conferre ». This dual meaning of collatio, for opening speech and for debate, is common, but here I use it for the speech. Finally, the gratiarum actio recompensativa, which Pierre gives for the « honor impensus », does not survive for any of the four books, but it does in the speech given at the end of the academic year, for which reason it is sometimes identified as a Sermo
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Christopher Schabel. “The Victorine Pierre Leduc’s Collationes, Sermo finalis, and Principia on the Sentences, Paris 1382-1383,. Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, 2021. ⟨hal-03175623⟩
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