William of Ockham, Dialogus

TABLE OF CONTENTS

as at May 2025

 
Items added since April 2023 are marked by the icons Newand  Revised

Preliminaries

Title page
Preface to the Edition Revised
Editorial Policy
Reference System
Ockham and the Dialogus
Plan of the Dialogus Revised
Witnesses to the text: sigla and descriptions Revised


DIALOGUS

The aim of the project has been (a) to publish in print a critical edition of the Latin text of the Dialogus, and (b) to publish (mostly online) an English translation of the whole critical edition.

The whole Dialogus has now been published in print in the series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi

Dialogus, Part 1, Books 1-5, ABMA vol. 35
Dialogus, Part 1, Book 6, ABMA vol. 41
Dialogus, Part 1, Book 7, ABMA vol. 42
Dialogus, Part 2, ABMA
vol. 20
Dialogus, Part 3, Tract 1, ABMA vol. 20
Dialogus, Part 3, Tract 2, ABMA vol. 33

English translation in print of Dialogus Part 1 Books 1-5 and Against John chs. 5-16, ABMA vol. 43
English translation online of the whole Dialogus, in parallel with the Latin text.

Related web pages, containing discussion of textual problems, collations, regularised transcriptions of witnesses, etc.:
Part 1 Books 1-5
Part 1 Books 6 and 7
Part 2

Part 3 Tract 1

Part 3 Tract 2


Studies

See introductions to printed volumes.
Descriptions of manuscripts and incunabula Revised
Coherence of the printed editionNew

Analysis of the Argument (Kilcullen):
Part 1 Books 1-5
Part 1 Book 6
Part 1 Book 7
Part 2
Part 3 Tract 1
Part 3 Tract 2

OxAvVfVc Tabula super Dialogum
Chapter headings in Ox
Chapter headings in Ly

Papal documents relating to the Franciscan idea of poverty translated (Kilcullen and Scott).
 
Theologians vs Canonists on Heresy (Scott).
Ockham and infallibility (Kilcullen)
Ockham's Political Writings (Kilcullen)
Ockham's Philosophy and Theology (Kilcullen) Revised

Relationships among manuscripts and editions

Problems with the text of 1 Dial. 1-5
Problems with the text of 2 Dial.  
Problems with the text of 3.1 Dial
Omissions or additions? Some passages found in MSS of the A and B groups and not in E (Scott)
Significant omissions

Ockham's References to the Dialogue or its Parts (Kilcullen)
Conventions used in collation files .

Corrections to the translation published in A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings, ed. Arthur Stephen McGrade and John Kilcullen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).