Abstract

The present article focuses on the questions on matter by the Franciscan Alexander of Alexandria (Lectura ii, d. 12). The article is divided into two main sections. The first section provides a philosophical-historical overview of Alexander’s questions on prime matter (qq. 1–2, 5). The second section provides insight into Alexander’s questions on heavenly matter (qq. 3–4), expounding the author’s solutions to the issues related to that subject. Appendix 1 contains a question list of Alexander’s unedited Lectura ii. An edition of Alexander’s Lectura ii, d. 12, qq. 1–5 is given in Appendix 2.