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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1 Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition Edited by Robert M. Berchman (Dowling College and Bard College) John F. Finamore (University of Iowa) Editorial Board John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin) – Gary Gurtler (Boston College) Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval University, Canada) volume 22 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/spnp Marc Geoffroy (1965–2018) Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1 Western Scholarly Networks and Debates Edited by Dragos Calma LEIDEN | BOSTON This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. The publication of the volumes has received the generous support of the ANR project LIBER (ANR-13-PDOC-0018-01) and École pratique des hautes études, Paris. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2019001242 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN 1871-188X ISBN 978-90-04-34510-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-39511-4 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by the Authors. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Marc Geoffroy cannot rejoice at the publication of this and the following two volumes. He passed away unexpectedly on 23 April 2018. Many of his friends and colleagues participated in the three Parisian conferences that we organized together in 2015 and 2016. Their contributions are now together in a common effort to share knowledge and honor Marc’s erudition, generosity and humor. ∵ Contents Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates 1 Dragos Calma Part 1 Liber de causis 1 Tradition exégétique: âges, styles et formes d’une réception par le commentaire 17 Dominique Poirel 2 La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles) 46 Irene Caiazzo 3 Liber de causis in Thomas of York 70 Fiorella Retucci 4 Le Liber de causis et l’Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises: Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge) 120 Laure Miolo 5 Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiens 151 Olga Weijers 6 From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the Great 180 Katja Krause and Henryk Anzulewicz 7 Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and His (?) Questions on the Metaphysics 209 Maria Evelina Malgieri 8 Duns Scot et le Liber de causis 251 Jean-Michel Counet x contents 9 Sine secundaria: Thomas d’Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’occasionalisme 268 Dragos Calma 10 The Liber de causis in Some Central European Quodlibets 301 Iulia Székely Part 2 Proclus 11 Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe siècles 327 Irene Zavattero 12 Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de Proclus 352 Guy Guldentops 13 Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’importance du Commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Éléments de théologie 376 Ruedi Imbach 14 Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli 394 Evan King 15 Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles Charlier 438 Zénon Kaluza 16 Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of Proclus 466 Barbara Bartocci Index of Manuscripts 483 Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors 485 Index of Modern Authors 489 introduction Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates Dragos Calma University College Dublin / Newman Centre for the Study of Religions, Dublin The majority of contributions reunited in this volume were first presented during the first of the three sessions of the conference “Les Éléments de thé- ologie et le Livre des causes du Ve au XVIIe siècle”. It took place at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris, on 13–14 November 2015, during the ter- rorist attacks.1 The second took place on 12–13 February 2016, and the third on 14–15–16 April 2016; all within the framework of the project LIBER (ANR- 13-PDOC-0018-01) which I directed between 2013 and 2017 at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris, and which generously financed these meet- ings and the publication of the proceedings.2 The conferences were organised by Marc Geoffroy and myself, under the auspices of Olivier Boulnois, Philippe Hoffmann, Ruedi Imbach, Zénon Kaluza and Dominique Poirel. I wish to acknowledge the important support of the following bodies in the organisa- tion of the conference: École pratique des hautes études, Équipe “philosophie arabe” of the Centre “Jean Pépin”—CNRS (UMR 8230), Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes—CNRS (UMR 8584), Labex haStec (Laboratoire européen d’histoire et anthropologie des savoirs, des techniques et des croyances), Insti- tut de recherche et d’histoire des textes—CNRS, Centre “Pierre Abélard”— Université Paris Sorbonne. Compared to the original program of the three conferences, minor thematic rearrangements have been made for publication. Irene Zavattero presented her paper during the second session and I presented mine during the third session of the conference. Stephen Gersh’s paper will be published in the second volume and Isabelle Moulin’s in the third volume. The paper by Barbara Bartocci was not delivered at the conference, yet I am happy to integrate it in the vol- 1 A description of the conference during those days is provided by G. Battagliero in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 57/2015. 2 The work for this volume has been accomplished within the framework of the ERC project NeoplAT (ERC_CoG_771640). © dragos calma, 2019 | doi:10.1163/9789004395114_002 This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License. 2 calma ume. Andrea A. Robiglio delivered a paper but could send it for publication. I wish to express my deepest gratitude to all the scholars presenting and / or publishing their papers, and also to those who chaired the sessions: Philippe Hoffmann, Olivier Boulnois, Luca Bianchi and Richard Taylor. Lastly, I wish to thank Evan King for his reliable support and useful remarks; Robert M. Berchman and John F. Finamore for accepting the publication of these proceedings in their series; Jennifer Pavelko of Brill for her help through- out this period of work; the École pratique des hautes études and the French National Research Agency for making possible the funding of these volumes. ∵ Marc Geoffroy introduced the first in the series of three conferences by remark- ing that the Book of Causes is not the product of a school, but of a circle, the circle of Al-Kindī. Thus, the Book of Causes is the result of a collaborative effort directed toward intellectual projects, which were financed by caliphs for dynas- ties of learned people. This historical background fully justified the topic of the first of the three sessions, and thus of the present volume. The topic of the various translations, modes of acculturation and adaptation of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes to the various traditions (Islamic, Byzantine, Latin, Hebrew) is obviously extremely important.3 Yet of all these traditions, their Latin reception is the most extensive, judging by the number of manuscripts transmitting these texts and the number of commentaries addressing them. The system of universities and religious schools developed in the Latin West offered unpar- alleled conditions of diffusion for these two works, as well as for all the other texts included in curricula, methodically taught and commented upon. Hence, the main objective of this volume is to bring new insights to our understanding of the teaching of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes. The recent discovery of a corpus of commentaries on these two works attested the existence of an overlooked scholarly network developed in most intellectual centres across Europe. This still requires years of patient investigation, yet it has already become clear that Proclean metaphysics was much more widely diffused than scholars have previously assumed. But precisely how broadly was it disseminated? Where and how did it all begin? How did this network impact the history of Western philosophy? These are some of the main questions that the present volume intends to address through a variety of meth- ods of investigation and without pretending to provide exhaustive answers. 3 The second session of the conference (organised in February 2016) was entirely devoted to it and we currently prepare the publication of these proceedings. western scholarly networks and debates 3 The research conducted by the present contributions (as well as by those from the subsequent volumes) does not aim to reveal “bombshells”. It aims to shed light on a network of authors, texts, institutions—in sum, a network of exegesis. It aims to shift the traditional divide, so often damaging for our field, between “minor” and “major” authors.

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