The first part (pp. 3–24) lists twenty-one arguments in support of the nominalist thesis that the existence of universals in re should not be postulated. These arguments are disparate and not systematically arranged. Thirteen of them can also be found in treatises on universals by other fourteenth-century realist authors, specifically in the treatises by Burley, Penbygull and Whelpdale. Eight, however, do not seem to be found in other authors, and therefore they can be considered original.