Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence, ex. Biblioteca S. Crocis, Plut. XXXVI, dext., cod. 11

Contents: William of Ockham, 1 Dial. (fols. 1-126v), 2 Dial. (fols. 127r-141v). 1 Dial. books 2-7 begin at 4v, 13r, 16r, 23r, 38r, 86r.

From the British Academy description:

Published Information: See A.M. Bandini, Catalogus codicum latinorum bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae, t. IV (Florence), cols. 716-7. "Saec. partim XIII. et partim XIV. binis columnis, duplici manu". On preliminary page (preceding 1r): Iste liber est ad usum fratris Ludovici de Nerlis, quem emit parisius dum ibidem studens existerit anno domini mccclxxii. According to Bandini, 2 Dial may have been written by Tedaldus da Casa.

Observations: 1 Dial. and 2 Dial. are in different hands. 1 Dial has catchwords at 12v, 24v, etc., 106v, 118v, ends at 126v.There are no catchwords in 2 Dial. It is likely that 1 Dial. and 2 Dial. were written separately and later bound into one volume. We do not know when the note referring to Ludovico de Nerli was written. If the information is correct, the copy of 1 Dial. must have been made before 1372. If Bandini's identification of the scribe is correct, the copy of 2 Dial. must have been written in the late 14th or early 15th century (Tedaldus gave his books to S. Croce in 1406, and seems to have died a few years later). In 1 Dial. initial capitals of chapters are decorated.

Collation shows that for 1 Dial., Fi is closely related to Ce and An, and (less closely) to Bb --- see here and here. Each member of this family omits some passage found in the others (and in MSS belonging to other families), suggesting that none of them is a copy of any of the others.

Knysh: Though very close to Bb , Fi and An form a distinct sub-group for the textual tradition of 1 Dial., with West French affinities, as indicated by common place names (Tours, Nantes) in 1 Dial. 5.24. Ce, which keeps these common place names, was evidently copied from an exemplar close to An/Fi.

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