L’essere e la volontà creatrice. La quarta proposizione del De causis nel commento dello Pseudo-Adamo di Bocfeld

Abstract

The Scriptum in Librum de causis traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Adam of Bocfeld occupies an important place in the history of the Latin reception of the Liber de causis. Previous studies have helped to better define our knowledge of the text which, however, still remains largely unpublished. This article (i) adds a new element for the study of the authorship of the text; (ii) discusses the interpretation offered by the Scriptum of one of the most famous propositions of the Liber de causis, the fourth proposition (“Prima rerum creatarum est esse, et non est ante ipsum creatum aliud – The first of created things is being, and there is nothing else created before it”).