[1422] Wood-Clark, II, 386. He must have attained the age of thirty by this time; Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. VI, pp. 128-9.
[1423] Wadding (VI, p. 48) cites some passages bearing on the date. Duns’ great work on the Sentences is called Scriptum Oxoniense, but I do not know how far the name can be traced back; Merton Coll. MSS. 60, 61, 62, date from the middle of the 15th century. Barth. of Pisa however says: ‘Hic primo in Anglia Oxonie Sentencias legit. Deinde in studio Parisiensi.’
[1424] He says, e.g. on the authority of the letter, that Duns was at Paris in 1304; the letter implies exactly the opposite; he was in ‘some province other than the province of France.’
[1425] Wadding, VI, 51, from Petrus Rodulphus, ‘qui eas ex ipso exscripsit autographo.’
[1426] Wadding, VI, 107.
[1427] Ibid. 51. The passage is usually understood to refer to his regency at Paris. No record of the Chapter remains.
[1428] Ibid. 116. The statement that he died at the age of 34 or 43 is a pure guess. The tradition of his having been buried alive when in a trance is found in St. Bernardin of Siena; Wadding, VI, 114.
[1429] Liber Conform. f. 81.
[1430] Archiv f. L. u. K. Gesch. I, 368, n. 1. Ehrle adds that the epithet occurs in some MSS. which he puts in the first half of the fourteenth century; ibid.
[1431] See the critical notice prefixed to each work in the Lyons edition; and Hist. Litt. Vol. XXV, pp. 426-446.