Bibliografia lul·liana
Lullian bibliography
Rodríguez Guerrero, Contributions [2024-2026].
José Rodríguez Guerrero
"New Contributions to the study of pseudolulian Liber de secretis naturae"
Azogue 10 (2024-2026), pp. 375-463.
I am going to analyse a treatise from the Pseudo-Lullian corpus entitled Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (DSN). According to the results of the research carried out so far by specialists, the text was written in the second half of the 14th century. It is the first text in the corpus to display a clear intention of being a pseudepigraphy: in several places, the author introduces himself as Ramon Llull; the text is set in locations that are significant in Llull's biography, such as the Abbey of Vauvert near Paris; and several of Llull's works are referenced as his own.
The widely accepted current hypothesis is that the forger used two main sources. One is the post-1348 treatise De consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omnium (DCQ) by Johannes de Rupescissa, which the forger partially plagiarised. The other source is the magister Testamenti, an alchemical text influenced by Llull and originally written around 1330–1340. The forger would have been linked to this text through quotations. The final result is a work comprising five major sections (A, B, C, D, E).
Here, I will present an extended thesis. The Magister Testamenti would have authored several versions, or primitive strata, of the DSN dating from 1330–1332. We will reconstruct two of these. The first has the structure B1 + CIa–b + CII + CIII and the second has the structure B1 + CIa–b + CII + CIII + CIVa–b + CV. A copy of the latter is preserved in manuscript BnF, Lat. 7177, which contains no pseudo-Lullian elements and is fully integrated into the Magister Testamenti's textual corpus. Rupescissa would have used this second version to compose his DCQ. Magister Testamenti later composed a third layer consisting of several recensions under the general structure B + C + D1/D2. His implementation of Lullian logic is more sophisticated and complex.
In the second half of the 14th century, a group of Catalan pseudepigraphers manipulated this extended version in order to attribute it to Lull, adding the prologue (section A) and the epilogue (section E), in which Ramón Llull is depicted in conversation with a monk; and inserting passages of Lullian content.
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