Acknowledgments
This volume is part of the work undertaken in the 1980s to publish a critical edition of Marsilius of Inghen’s commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. The originator of this project was Prof. Georg Wieland, and Prof. Martin J.F.M. Hoenen, Prof. Manfred Schulze and Dr Manuel Santos Noya implemented the idea. It has been realised at the University of Tübingen in Abteilung für Philosophische Grundfragen der Theologie led by Prof. Georg Wieland. To date, the first twenty-seven questions of Book 1 of this commentary have been critically edited in three volumes.
The research on Books 2 and 3 of Marsilius commentary on the Sentences is conducted in the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Silesia in Katowice, in cooperation with Prof. Manfred Schulze. The presented edition of questions 1–5 from the commentary on Book 3 is one of its results, as well as the effect of an international research project entitled Corpus operum Marsilii de Inghen, funded by the then-Ministry of Science and Higher Education (now the Ministry of Education and Science) under the National Program for the Development of the Humanities (project no. 12H 12 0061 81). The funding for English proofreading preparing the book for submission was granted by the University of Silesia under POB 4 MPK 502 01 1 000 ZFIN00001022 and co-financed by the funds granted under the Research Excellence Initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice (POB 4 ZFIN 12161022).
We want to thank all those who contributed to the creation of the edition, whether they collaborated during the design work, provided substantive and formal assistance, or supported and motivated us in a friendly manner.
Our special thanks go to Prof. Manfred Schulze, for his friendly and encouraging presence at all stages of the work and his substantive support, including his first reading and his valuable consultation, especially in theology, and his assistance in drafting the first chapter of the introduction providing a brief overview of the content of the published issues. We extend sincere gratitude to Prof. Krystyna Krauze-Błachowicz who helped us solve particularly complex philological problems. Above all, however, we thank from the bottom of our hearts not only our closest collaborators in the project but also our friends Łukasz Tomanek and Paweł Superat, who did the thankless preparatory work of preliminary identification of sources and preliminary comparison of the message of the tradition, and Fr. Romuald Żurek for the initial transcription of the text.
We also do not forget to gratefully acknowledge the support we received for publishing this book from Brill publishers. Above all, we thank Prof. Robert Bast, editor-in-chief of the Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, for accepting our book into the series. We also express our great gratitude to Ivo Romein, associate editor of the series. He showed extraordinary kindness, patience and understanding and guided us through the entire publishing process. Moreover, we express our heartfelt gratitude to Bart Nijsten for the typesetting of the volume and especially for the inexhaustible reserves of his patience and kindness that allowed us to reach our goal fruitfully. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of this volume who submitted valuable comments that influenced the final shape of the book. In particular, we would like to thank Prof. Maarten Hoenen, our publishing primus motor, who assisted our publishing efforts.
Hanna Wojtczak
Maciej Stanek
Katowice 2022