Projects

I. Editions:

A. Recently Completed (1996 and thereafter):

Damien Ruiz writes:

Je termine l'édition d'un court texte d'Olivi pour le mélange en l'honneur du P. Cenci : tractatus de paupertate minorum = 8 mss.     En outre, je prépare une thèse de doctorat sur Hugues de Digne (directeurs : André Vauchez et Antonio Rigon). Damien Ruiz: 4 bd Paul Verlaine 13340 ROGNAC France      

David Flood and Gedeon Gàl:

Have published Peter of John Olivi on the Bible, St. Bonaventure, NY, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1997. It includes editions of the following:

Principia Quinque in Sacram Scripturam
Postilla in Isaiam et in I ad Corinthios
Quaestio de Obaedientia
Sermones duo de S. Francisco
Sermones Duo de S. Francisco

Robert Pasnau:

Published "Petri Iohannis Olivi Tractatus de Verbo," Franciscan Studies, 53 (1993), 121-53.

Johannes Schlageter:

Has now published his critical edition of the Expositio in Canticum Canticorum fratris Petri Iohannis Olivi OMin. The publisher is the College of Saint Bonaventure, Grottaferrata. Part of it is given here under "Unpublished Primary Sources."

He also has completed a transcription of Olivi's commentary on Ecclesiastes, which can be found here under "Unpublished Primary Sources."

Sylvain Piron, Cynthia Kilmer and Elisa Marmursztein:

Have published "Petrus Ioannis Olivi, Epistola ad Fratrem R.," texte établi par Cynthia Kilmer et Elisa Marmursztein, révisé, introduit et annoté par Sylvain Piron, Archivum franciscanum historicum, 91 (1998), 33-64.

B. In Progress:

Alain Boureau writes:

Gilbert Dahan donnera les 12 petits prophètes et moi les Romains à l'éditeur Brepols a la fin de l'été. Sylvain et Piroska Nagy (une autre de mes étudiantes devenbue maitre de confrences à Rouen) sint entrain d'éditer le commentaire du pseudo Denys. J'ai commencé la transcription de Job longue tâche!).

David Flood:

Also has announced an interest in the commentary on Acts.

Fortunato Iozzelli:

Intends to edit the commentary on Luke.

Sylvain Piron:

(See above under "Alain Boureau.") He also has done a transcription of the opus legalium et cerimonialium (as found in MS Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, XII.A.23). He is also preparing a new critical edition of the treatise on contracts, on the basis of 6 manuscripts (Bologna, Siena, Napoli, Vatican, Oxford and Paris). Moreover, he is preparing an edition of Guiral Ot's treatise (from the mss Siena, U.V.7 and Cortona 57) which follows Olivi's schema very closely.

Sarah Pucciarelli:

Has done critical editions of the commentary on Matthew, chs. 16 and 24. Both are given here under "Unpublished Primary Sources."

Marco Bartoli:

Is well along in editing Quaestion 14 of the Quaestiones de perfectione evangelica: (An papa possit ab omni voto dispensare). In fact, he is publishing a work bringing together several Olivi texts which deal with papal power. These include his questio on the Porziuncula indulgence; Quaestiones de perfectione evangelica, questions 12, 13, 14; the letter to Conrad of Offida; Quodlibet I, qq. 18, 19, 20; and Lectura super apocalypsim, ch. 1, verse 13. The texts can be found here under "Unpublished Primary Sources."

Paolo Vian:

Is preparing an edition of the commentary on the Apocalypse.

Anna d'Alessandro:  

Intends to publish several questions from the Quodlibeta:: Quodl. I, qq. 16, 17; Quodl. IV, qq. 5, 17; Quodl. V, qq. 12, 13, 14.

Stefano Recchia:

Is listed in theTesti Francescani Medievali bollettino di Informazione as editing the Opera "sancti" Petri Johannis Olivi transcripta ab admiratore.

I myself:

Have no plans to publish any critical editions, but I hope to place on this server a mini-edition of the commentary on Matthew based on a transcription of Oxford New College 49 corrected by other manuscripts. Alain Boureau has generously offered to collaborate on the project. Wherever parts of the commentary are already available in critical editions I shall make use of them. As far as I know, the latter are as follows:

Ch 1, qq. 1-2, 5-6, 10: Aquilinus Emmen, "Pierre de Jean Olivi, sa doctrine et son influence," Cahiers de Joséphologie, 14 (1966), 209-70 (edition 259-70), using Florence Plut. X dext. 4 and Vat. lat. 1001

Ch 5:1-26: Thomas Murtagh, Peter Olivi's Matthew Commentary: A Critical Edition of Chapter 5, Verses 1-26 with a commentary, thesis, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1992, using all MSS.

Ch 6: 9-13: Ferdinand Delorme, "Textes Franciscains," Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà, 1 (1951), 179-218 (text 185-94 acc. Piron, 194-200 acc. Murtagh - is it because 185-94 is edition of ch. 27, seven words on cross, which Murtagh doesn't list?) using Vat. lat. 8670 and St. Isidore's College I/56.

Ch 10, partial edition: Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, "Un adversaire de Saint Thomas: Petrus Iohannis Olivi," in St. Thomas Aquinas, 1274-1974, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1974. 207-18, using Paris Bib. Nat. lat. 15588 and Toulouse Bibl. Municipale 48. (Ehrle, Archiv 3:519-22 gives Vat. lat. 4986 text?)

Ch 16: Sarah Pucciarelli, term paper, Virginia Tech, 1995.

Ch 18, partial edition: Bonaventure, Opera Omnia, Quaracchi, College of St. Bonaventure, 1898, 658-62.

Ch 27: See Delorme entry above.

Ch 24, Sarah Pucciarelli.

If someone sees an error here, kindly let me know by writing OLIVI@VT.EDU. The project is in its early stages.

II. Studies (1996 and thereafter):

James Franklin

has published The Science of Conjecture: Evideknce and Probability Before Pascal, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, which contains a section on Olivi.

Chara Armon (Cornell University, ca29@cornell.edu):

Is completing a dissertation on the development of devotion to St. Joseph in the Franciscan Order. Olivi's unusual comments on Joseph in the Postilla in Matthaeum figure prominently in the project.

Tobia Kemper (University of Bonn, tobias.kemper@mediaevum.de) writes:

"I am writing a dissertation on medieval passion narratives with an extensive chapter about Olivi and his thoughts about Jesus' side pierced by the lance."

Richard Cross (of Oriel College, Oxford, richard.cross@oriel.oxford.ac.uk):

Writes of two forthcoming works. "The first is forthcoming in Medioevo, and is entitled 'Absolute Time: Peter John Olivi and the Bonaventurean Tradition' - it's largely an analysis of Olivi's discussion of the aevum. The other is a book which is coming out with the Clarendon Press, entitled The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus." In the latter "there are two reasonably large sections on Olivi."

Antonio Ciceri:

Published a tentative inventory of Olivi manuscripts: "Pietro di Giovanni Olivi: censimento-inventario dei manoscritti," Archivum Franciscanum Historicum., 90 (1997), 3-83.

Sylvain Piron:

Published a supplement to Ciceri's inventory, "Complements à l'inventaire des manuscrits d'Olivi," Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 90 (1997), 591-596.

Published an article, "Voeu et contrat chez Pierre de Jean Olivi," in Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, 16 (1996), 43-56.

Olivier Boulnois:

Published an article, "Vouloir, Voeu et Noblesse de la Volonté selon Olieu," in Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, 16 (1996), 57-64.

Kevin Madigan:

Has published "Aquinas and Olivi on Evangelical Poverty: A Medieval Debate and its Modern Significance," The Thomist, 61 (1997), 567-86.

Has finished a book on Olivi's gospel commentaries.

Robert Pasnau:

Has published Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, 1997, which prominently features Olivi.
Published "Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul," Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 6 (1997), 109-132.

Stephen D. Dumont:

Has published "The Origin of Scotus's Theory of Synchronic Contingency," The Modern Schoolman , 72 (1995), 149-67. It traces an important feature of Scotus's doctrine of will, which gave rise to the so-called synchronic view of contingency, to Olivi.

Luca Parisoli:

Published the following:

"La formazione del concetto di infallibilità pontificia, da Pietro di Giovanni Olivi a Guglielmo di Ockham,"Collectanea franciscana, 67 (1997), 431-58.

"Come affiorò il concetto di diritto soggettivo inalienabile nella riflessione francescana sulla povertà, sino ai fraticelli de opinione e Giovanni XXII," Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica, 28 (1998), 93-137.

"Guglielmo di Ockham e la fonte dei diritti naturali," Collectanea franciscana, 68 (1998), 5-62.

"The Narbonne Olivi Conference:

The proceedings now have been published as Pierre de Jean Olivi (1248-1298): Pensée scolastiuque, dissidence spirituelle et société, édité par Alain Boureau et Sylvain Piron, Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1999 (The cover)

Here are the contents:

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Remerciements
Introduction par Alain BOUREAU et Sylvain PIRON

Olivi on Human Freedom par Robert PASNAU
Olivi et le temps par Ruedi IMBACH et François Xavier PUTALLAZ
Le concept de relation chez Pierre de Jean Olivi par Alain BOUREAU
La questione della ratio ligata e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi par Vincenzo MAURO
La liberté divine et la destruction des idees chez Olivi par Sylvain PIRON
L'exegèse des livres prophetiques chez Pierre de Jean Olieu par Gilbert DAHAN
Olivi utilisateur de la Catena aurea de Thomas dAquin par Louis J. BATAILLON
Von göttlicher in menschlicher Liebe. Uberlegungen zum Canticum Kommentar des Fr. Petrus Johannis Olivi 0. Min. (+ 1298) par Johannes SCHLAGETER O.F.M
Peter John Olivi, Author of the Lectura Super Apocalipsim: Was he Heretical? par Warren LEWIS
Poverty as Virtue, Poverty as Warning, and Peter of John Olivi par David FLOOD, O.F.M
Olivi et le pouvoir du pape par MarcoBARTOLI
La difesa dell'ordine francescano difronte alle critiche dei secolari in Olivi par Roberto LAMBERTINI Peter Olivi on the Conversion of the Jews par Robert LERNER
Olivi e il mercator cristiano par Giacomo TODESCHINI
Le jeu comme contrat et le risicum chez Olivi par Giovanni CECCARELLI
La contribution de l'école fransciscaine a la naissance de la notion de liberté politique: les donnees préalables chez Pierre de Jean Olivi par Luca PARISOLI
Autour de Pierre de Jean Olivi. Narbonne et le narbonnais, fin XIIIe, debut XIVe siècle par Gilbert LARGUIER
Culte et rayonnemente Pierre Déjean Olieu en Languedoc au debut du XIVe siècle par Jean Louis BIGET Did the Béguins understand Olivi ? par David BURR
The Visionary Authority of Na Prous Boneta par Louisa A. BURNHAM
Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e Dante, ovvero i1panno e la gonna par Alberto FORNI
Raymond Lulle (1235 1316) et Pierre de Jean Olivi (1247 1298): la <<science divine >>, les conflits des savoirs et des institutions par Dominique de COURCELLES
Bibliographie 1989-1998

Please write and inform me of other ongoing projects. This will be of at least some help in preventing duplication. Also, if I haven't acknowledged something you or someone else has done, let me know. Write to olivi@vt.edu.

Revised 22 October 2000.