‘D. P. frater Joannes Scotus, sacrae Theologiae Professor, Doctor Subtilis nominatus, quondam lector Coloniae, qui obiit anno MCCCVIII, VI Idus Novembris.’ This entry, though certainly not contemporary, was probably derived from some authentic record. Duns’ title of _Doctor Subtilis_, though it does not seem to have been given him in his lifetime, is of considerable antiquity. It is mentioned by Bartholomew of Pisa at the end of the fourteenth century[1429], and by the MS. Catalogue at Assisi, written in 1381[1430]. A collected edition of his works was printed at Lyons in 1639. Many of the works included in these twelve folio volumes are considered doubtful by the editors[1431]. Some few treatises not included in this edition are assigned to him. _Johannis Scoti super Apocalypsin notulae._ _Inc. liber_: ‘Liber iste principaliter dividitur in tres partes.’ (Doubtful.) MS. Bodl.:--Laud. Misc. 434, f. 1 (sec. xiv). _[Ejusdem?] super S. Matthaei Evangelium notae._ _Inc._ ‘Liber generacionis,’ &c.: ‘Sicut fluvius de loco voluptatis egrediens.’ (Doubtful.) MS. _ibid._ f. 75. ‘_Utrum pluralitas formalitatum possit stare cum simplicitate divine essencie._’ MS. Bodl.: Digby 54, f. 123 (sec. xv). _De perfectione statuum_[1432]. _Inc._ ‘Quod status prelatorum sc. pastorum ecclesie.’ MSS. Oxford:--Merton Coll. 65, f. 119 (A. D. 1456). Cambridge:--Public Library Dd. III. 47 (sec. xv); Corpus Christi Coll. 107, fol. 77-93a (sec. xv). Florence:--Laurentiana, _ex Bibl. S. Crucis_, Plut. xxxvi, Dext. Cod. xii, p. 101 (sec. xiv _exeuntis_). _Opusculum Doctoris Subtilis super aliquos canones Arzachel._ (Doubtful.) MS. Cambridge:--Public Library 1017, f. 14-15 (sec. xv). Cf. Tanner, _Bibl._ p. 689, _sub_ ‘Stantonus.’ _Tractatus Johannis Dons Scoti de lapide philosophorum._ (Apocryphal.) MS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 14008, f. 156. =Robert Cowton=, or =de Couton= (co. York), according to W. Woodford, entered the Order when young[1433]. He was at Oxford in 1300, when the Provincial asked the Bishop of Lincoln to license him, among others, to hear confessions, but Robert was among the rejected[1434]. At this time he was not a doctor. According to Bale and Pits he studied philosophy at Oxford and theology at Paris: there can be little doubt that he obtained the degree of D.D. in the latter University. His title of ‘the pleasant doctor[1435]’ is not vouched for by any early authority. If we may draw any inference from the number of MSS. preserved, few works by any Franciscan were more in demand in England[1436] in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries than the _Commentaries_ of Robert Cowton _on the Sentences_. The following MSS. contain them, or parts of them. London:--Brit. Mus. Royal 11 B. i. 11 B. iv.--Gray’s Inn, 20. Oxford:--Univ. Coll. 76, f. 455--Balliol 192, 199, 200, 201--Merton 91, 92, 93--New College 290--Exeter 43--Lincoln 36.