Kwestia Utrum universale nihil sit aut posterius suis singularibus z zachowanych w rękopisie BJ 2118 Collectanea de anima

Presented paper contains the critical edition of the question Utrum universal nihil sit aut posterius suis singularibus of the Collectanea de anima preserved in MS. BJ 2118. Collectanea de anima is a provisional title of the collection of 6 questions dealing with the problem of the soul, composed in Krakow in the 2nd half of the 15th century. This manual has a heterogenic character, since every question differs from the others regarding its form, multidimensionality of undertaken issues and the degree of doctrinal independence. Surely, the 3rd question edited here (precisely its part that has been preserved till today, i.e. the introduction and first passage of articulus 1) is not too original work and does not include any remarkable statements. But yet, it is an important testimony of work of compilers, that nowadays only uncommonly is a subject of studies. The edited text in general is doctrinally dependent: first of all, it is based on the works by Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and Alexander Bonini of Alexandria (the author explicitly quotes these sources), but also on treatises by Heymericus of Campo and Pseudo-Aquinas (their works are not induced by the author). Concerning the substance of the edited question, the most interesting and “original” is a kind of ignorance of the historical background of the problem of universals and the occurrence of quite numerous mistakes. Mostly they can be easily explained, since they often arise from improper decipheration of abbreviation, overinterpretation or basing on a corrupted source. The accumulated mistakes lead the author to draw his own (singular) conclusions, that all testify the correctness of the Aristotle’s sentence: Parvus error in principio maximus erit in fine.