visio sive contemplacio : undo theophania, id est visio dei.
Simplicis apponitur ad differenciam composite contempla-
tionis ; quia quedam contemplacio est simplex, quedam com-
posita. Composita contemplacio etiam in duas dividitur
species, in contemplacionem secundum sensum, et contempla-
cionem secundum racionem. Secundum sensum fit contem
placio, quando contemplamur deum creatorem per ipsas
creaturas; scilicet per solem et per lunam et per stellas, et
huiusmodi. Secundum racionem fit contemplacio, quando
nos contemplamur coherenciam inter materiam et formam;
unde scimus quod abunivit materiam et formam : et hec etiam
contemplacio est composita, quia quedam compositio est
materiei ad formam et forme ad materiam. Simplex contem
placio est quo fit inter angelos, quia contemplantur deum prout
est in maiestate sua, et non per aliquas creaturas. Non
imaginarie apponitur, quia quedam contemplacio est imagin-
aria, quedam non. Imaginaria est ilia contemplacio.
[The rest is wanting.]
IV. NOTE ON THE PRECURSORS OF NOMINALISM.
DR. VON PRANTL was the first to a explain how John Scotus could be reckoned as the founder of nominalism, and to define the limits within which this ascription could be justly claimed. M. Haureau had indeed previously interpreted the reference in du Boulay s chronicle b already quoted, in the same sense as Dr. von Prantl; but he was led to this conclusion by the help of a passage in the De Divisione Naturae which he misread in an inexplicable man- ner. John Scotus omits grammar and rhetoric from the class of strict sciences, because non de rerum natura tractare videntur, sed vel de regulis humanae vocis, &c. d M. Haureau understood this of dialectic and rhetoric, and thus actually inverted the real significance of John s position in respect de of the function of logic.
Some commentaries attributed to Rabanus Maurus discover so close an affinity to John Scotus s logical theory
