Showing posts with label Sentences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sentences. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences, vol. 2

I can't wait to get my hands on the second volume of Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Current Research, which so far seems to have only made it into the Warburg Institute library.  In the meantime, as Brill are being coy about it, here's the chapter list (with authors omitted for clarity's sake):

—  The Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers Gloss
—  Stephen Langton
—  The Glossa in IV libros Sententiarum by Alexander of Hales
—  The Sentences Commentary of Hugh of St.-Cher
—  Thomas Aquinas and his Lectura romana in primum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
—  Robert Kilwardby's Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
—  William de la Mare
—  Henry of Harclay and Aufredo Gonteri Brito
—  On the Limits of the Genre: Roger Roseth as a Reader of the Sentences
—  Richard Fitzralph's Lectura on the Sentences
—  Peter of Candia's Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
—  Martin Luther
—  Conclusion: The Tradition of the Sentences

It seems some standardization of the titles wouldn't have gone amiss.

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Editions of 14th-century Sentences commentaries

I'm compiling a list of sizeable critical editions of 14th-century commentaries on Lombard's Sentences. In case it's of use to anyone else, here it is. At present the roll-call is: Scotus, Auriol, Marchia, Ockham, Chatton, Wodeham, Crathorn, Roseth, Langeley, Rimini, and Marsilius of Inghen.

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Paris University Statutes of 1366

The Parisian Statutes of 1366 show some interesting contraints on students of and lecturers on the Sentences:

Item quod scolares librum Sententiarum audientes noviter primis quatuor annis textum Sententiarum portent vel portari faciant ad scolas bachelarii, a quo Sententias audient, ut textum Sententiarum audiant diligenter.

Item quod legentes Sententias faciant honeste et sine verbis offensivis quibuscunque aut elatis sive scandalosis suas collationes et principia, omni injuria cessante servatoque sibi invicem congruo honore.

Item quod legentes Sententias non tractent questiones aut materias logicas vel philosophicas, nisi quantum textus Sententiarum requiret, aut solutiones argumentorum exigent, sed moveant et tractent questiones theologicas, speculativas vel morales, ad distinctiones pertinentes.

Item quod legentes Sententias legant textum ipsarum ordinate et exponant ad utilitatem auditorum.

Item quod nullus legens Sententias legat questionem suam aut suum principium per quaternum aut alias in scriptis. Non tamen propter hoc inhibemus, quin bachelarius possit portare ad cathedram aliquid ex quo possit, si necesse fuerit, sibi reducere ad memoriam aliquas difficultates questionem suam, aut argumenta seu auctoritates aut ad ipsam questionem aut aliquam expositionem pertinentes.

Item statuimus quod nullus magister aut bachelarius qui Sententias legerit, suam lecturam Sententiarum communicet tradendo stationariis directe vel indirecte, quousque sua lectura fuerit per cancellarium et magistrus predicte facultatis examinata.


(Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, vol. III, §1319, pp. 143f.)