Notice from the Editors

The Quarrachi editors write that in the text at this point (between question 6 and the second part of distinction 49) a scribe noted the absence in the Ordinatio of a number of questions that Scotus nevertheless dealt with in his lectures. The text of these questions was supplied in the Ordinatio mss. from student reports of the lectures now preserved in the Reportatio [Rep. IV A]. Distinction 50 and its several questions, which are also missing in the Ordinatio, were again supplied from the Reportatio. For sake of completeness, the editors give the titles of these missing questions.

First, those that would have come between question 6 and the second part of d.49:

Q.7: Whether Joy in the Beatific Object is of the Essence, or Pertains to the Essence, of Beatitude.

Q.8: Whether Human Nature is the Lowest Nature Capable of Beatitude

Q.9: Whether All Men of Necessity and Supremely Will Beatitude

Q.10: Whether Everything that is Desired is Desired for the sake of Beatitude

Q.11: Whether Man Could Attain Beatitude by his Purely Natural Resources

Q.12: Whether Man could Attain Beatitude in this Mortal Life

Second, those that would have come in d.50:

Q.1: Whether Anyone Could, by Right Reason, Desire not to Exist so as to Escape Misery

Q.2: Whether the Damned Desire not to Exist for the sake of Escaping Misery

Q.3: Whether the Blessed See the Punishments of the Damned

Q.4: Whether the Punishment of the Damned is Equal

Q.5: Whether the Beatitude of all the Blessed is Equal

Q.6: Whether the Beatitude of the Bodies is Equal