Manuscript London, British Library, Burney 330 contains an anonymous collection of grammatical sophisms, dating in all probability from early 13th-century France or England, and all based on problematic biblical, liturgical or religious propositions. After a presentation of the manuscript and collection, this article examines two analysis tools that are applied in the majority of the sophisms, viz. a distinction between three layers of grammatico-semantic perfection or completeness, and the grammatical and semantic supposition doctrines. It appears that these sophisms pay prominent attention to improper or figurative supposition, but are not intended for highly advanced readers. These preliminary results suggest that the Burney Sophismata Collection constituted an exercise tool to support textbook-based instruction in theological grammar, which was developed by such masters as Peter the Chanter and William de Montibus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
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See above, pp. 294-5.
Ebbesen-Goubier, A Catalogue of 13th-Century Sophismata, 9-10.
Anne Grondeux, ‘Sophismata Anonymi Avenionensis (ms. Clervaux, Abbaye Saint-Maurice 12)’, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Age grec et latin 73 (2002), 41-59.
Cf. above, pp. 304-5. An exception is Sophism 6, “Vis baptizari? Volo,” in which the incongruity between the intended and the factual participants of the communication triangle is at stake. The solution is sought by the respondent in the ‘usus ecclesiasticus’.
See also above, p. 305; for Roger Bacon’s linguistic theories, see Irène Rosier-Catach, ‘Roger Bacon and Grammar’, in Roger Bacon and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays, ed. J. Hackett (Leiden, 1997), 67-102.
See below, pp. 318-19.
See above, p. 312.
John Buridan, Summulae: De suppositionibus, 4.3.1, ed. R. van der Lecq (Nijmegen, 1998), 38,8-10: “Sed de huiusmodi suppositione [sc. impropria] non pertinet ad scientias speculativas, sed ad sermones poeticos. Ideo haec suppositio praetermittatur ad praesens.”
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Manuscript London, British Library, Burney 330 contains an anonymous collection of grammatical sophisms, dating in all probability from early 13th-century France or England, and all based on problematic biblical, liturgical or religious propositions. After a presentation of the manuscript and collection, this article examines two analysis tools that are applied in the majority of the sophisms, viz. a distinction between three layers of grammatico-semantic perfection or completeness, and the grammatical and semantic supposition doctrines. It appears that these sophisms pay prominent attention to improper or figurative supposition, but are not intended for highly advanced readers. These preliminary results suggest that the Burney Sophismata Collection constituted an exercise tool to support textbook-based instruction in theological grammar, which was developed by such masters as Peter the Chanter and William de Montibus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
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