Bonaventure

## COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM XXIV.

PARS II.

De gradibus et dignitatibus ordinum.

Ostiarii iidem et ianitores sunt etc.

TEXTUM MAGISTRI VIDE SUPRA PAG. 603.

DIVISIO TEXTUS.

Supra egit Magister de disponentibus ad ordinem. Hic agit de ordinibus. Et haec pars habet duas. In prima agit de gradibus ordinum. In secunda de dignitatibus sive officiis superadditis ordinibus, ibi: Sunt et alia quaedam, non ordinum etc.

Prima pars habet tres partes. In prima ponit gradus ordinum, quos in littera¹ distinguit, et partes in suis locis manifestae sunt. In secunda vero assignat differentiam ordinum minorum ad maiores, ibi: Cumque omnes sint spirituales etc. In tertia vero determinat, in quo conveniunt, ibi: Si autem quaeritur, quid sit quod hic vocatur ordo.

Prima harum in septem partes dividitur secundum septem ordines, qui patent in littera, quaelibet suo loco.

Sunt et alia quaedam, non ordinum etc. Haec est secunda pars, in qua agitur de dignitatibus superadditis ordinibus; et haec pars habet tres secundum tria, de quibus agit. Quaedam enim tenent nomina officiorum praecipue magis quam dignitatum, ut cantor et succentor; quaedam nomina dignitatum, ut archiepiscopus, patriarcha; quaedam media, ut episcopus, quod est nomen dignitatis simul et officii, ut dicit in littera². Primo igitur agit de his quae dicunt officium et dignitatem. Secundo de his quae dignitatem, ibi: Ordo autem episcoporum quadripartitus est etc. Tertio vero de his quae dicunt officium, ibi: Cantor sic vocatur, quod vocem etc.

TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.

Ad intelligentiam huius partis quaeritur de ordinibus in speciali, circa quos dupliciter dubitare contingit ad enodationem eorum quae Magister in littera³ tangit.

Primo, quantum ad characteris impressionem.

Secundo, quantum ad numerum et distinctionem.

Quantum ad primum quaeruntur quatuor.

Primo quaeritur, utrum in omnibus ordinibus imprimatur character.

Secundo, utrum unus vel plures.

Tertio, utrum habeant ordinem ad invicem.

Quarto quaeritur quantum ad signum exterius, quod ei respondet.

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COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XXIV.

PART II.

On the grades and dignities of the orders.

"The ostiaries and the janitors are the same, etc."

FOR THE TEXT OF THE MASTER, SEE ABOVE, PAGE 603.

DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above, the Master dealt with the things that dispose toward order. Here he deals with the orders themselves. And this part has two [members]. In the first he deals with the grades of the orders. In the second, with the dignities or offices superadded to the orders, at: Sunt et alia quaedam, non ordinum etc. ("There are also certain other things, not of the orders").

The first part has three parts. In the first he sets down the grades of the orders, which he distinguishes in the littera¹, and the parts are made manifest in their own places. In the second he assigns the difference of the lesser orders to the greater, at: Cumque omnes sint spirituales etc. ("Since all are spiritual"). In the third he determines in what they agree, at: Si autem quaeritur, quid sit quod hic vocatur ordo ("But if it is asked what that is which is here called order").

The first of these is divided into seven parts according to the seven orders, which appear in the littera, each in its own place.

Sunt et alia quaedam, non ordinum etc. ("There are also certain other things, not of the orders"). This is the second part, in which the dignities superadded to the orders are treated; and this part has three [members] according to the three things of which it treats. For some hold the names of offices rather more than of dignities, as cantor and succentor; some [hold] names of dignities, as archbishop, patriarch; some are intermediate, as bishop, which is a name of dignity together with office, as he says in the littera². First, therefore, he deals with those things which state office and dignity. Second, with those [which state] dignity, at: Ordo autem episcoporum quadripartitus est etc. ("But the order of bishops is fourfold"). Third, with those which state office, at: Cantor sic vocatur, quod vocem etc. ("The cantor is so called because... the voice").

TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, inquiry is made concerning the orders in particular, about which it happens that one may doubt in two ways, toward the unraveling of those things which the Master touches upon in the littera³.

First, as to the impression of the character.

Second, as to the number and distinction [of the orders].

As to the first, four things are asked.

First it is asked whether in all orders a character is imprinted.

Second, whether one [character] or many.

Third, whether they have an order to one another.

Fourth, inquiry is made as to the exterior sign which corresponds to it.

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