inscriptlo, ut ex antique exemplar! constat. Possibly
therefore the printed title De Substantiis physicis is an
insertion of the editor. From the Secundaria we pass to
a fourth title, namely, Secunda Philosophia, which appears
in two manuscripts of the Staats- und Hof-Bibliothek at
Munich. A fifth designation is found in a manuscript,
nr xcv, of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, dating, accord
ing to Coxe’s Catalogue, from the thirteenth century :
Gulielmi de Conchis, alias Shelley, Universalis Philo-
sophiae Libri III. per modum dialogi, &c. Sixthly, in
one of the Digby manuscripts in the Bodleian library,
nr cvii, the work is entitled Summa Magistri Willelmi de
Conchis super naturalibus Quaestionibus et Responsionibus,
&c. In the following pages I shall cite the book as the
Dragmaticon.
6. We have now to inquire in what way it bears upon the other works of its author. Here its testimony is precise and unambiguous. It is a new edition of a former work entitled Philosophia, modified in concession, as would appear, to certain complaints on the score of heresy; and the passages thus altered or expunged are to be found in that work which in the preceding excursus was recognised under the different names of Bede, William of Hirschau, and Honorius of Autun. It is also known that s objections were raised to a work of William of Conches, entitled the Philosophia, which objections are substantially the same with those enumerated in the following paragraph of the Dragmaticon. I have inserted in the margin the corre sponding places in the Philosophia.
After announcing the subject of his treatise William proceeds :
’Est tamen de eadem materia libellus noster qui Philosophia inscribitur, quern in iuventute nostra imperfectum, utpote im- perfecti, composuimus ; in quo veris falsa admiscuimus, mul- taque necessaria praetermisimus. Est igitur nostrum consilium, quae in eo vera sunt hie apponere, falsa damnare, praetermissa supplere. Falsa vero ilia quae contra fidem. catholicam nobis in eo videntur esse, ante auspicium dictionis, nominatim dam-
