Some chronological clarifications concerning the controversy on the unity of the intellect (Regarding the Paris School of Theology's first response to Thomas Aquinas' 'De Unitate Intellectus')

The MS.Munich, Staatsbibliothek, Clm.8005 contains a heretofore unknown tra nscription of Giles of Rome's reading of the 4 books of the Sentences datab le to the years 1270-1272. Among the questions concerning Book-II (commente d during the school year 1270-1271) the question "Utrum intellectus sit unu s numero in omnibus" stands out considerably, for it constitutes Giles' fir st draft of his treatise "De Plurificatione Intellectus Possibilis". We hav e thus a new witness for the controversy on the unity of the intellect. Fir st of all, this question constitutes the Paris Theology School's first resp onse to Thomas Aquinas's "De Unitate Intellectus". Secondly, it furnishes a "terminus ante quem" for Giele's edition of the "Quaestiones De Anima" whi ch, consequently, are (anterior) to the end of 1270. Thirdly, it shows that none can no longer accept Chossat's thesis according to which Giles's "De Plurificatione Intellectus" hints at Siger of Brabant's "De Anima Intellect iva".