Miscellanea Philosophica, Vol. 2: Containing, De Universalibus; Fragmenta; Notae Et Quaestiones Variae; De Materia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Wycliff, John

9780266707158: Miscellanea Philosophica, Vol. 2: Containing, De Universalibus; Fragmenta; Notae Et Quaestiones Variae; De Materia (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266707157 ISBN 13: 9780266707158

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Excerpt from Miscellanea Philosophica, Vol. 2: Containing, De Universalibus; Fragmenta; Notae Et Quaestiones Variae; De Materia

De Materia is so mutilated that it is difficult to form any judgment at all concerning it. Its authenticity, so far as I can see, amounts to this: We have no reason to believe that it is not by Wyclif, since it is his doctrine, and written in a style indistinguishable from his. It is true (see Note, p. 170) that a work ascribed to Johannes Huss de Hussynetz has the incipit and the first page, but the first page only, identica-l with this work. But Huss, as has been amply shown by Dr. Loserth more than once, was what we moderns would call a plagiary of Wyclif; and the circumstance that only the first page is identical seems rather to show that Huss borrowed it from the present tractate, and that this tractate is by his master's hand.

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