An Ælfrician Source for a Passage in the Worcester Fragments

Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought, 2021

The paper presents an account of the life and works of the almost unknown Friar Minorand Master Adam of Exeter (de Exonia, de Oxonia or Rufus), who was one of Grosseteste'spupils and acollaborator of Adam Marsh. Adam of Exeter taught the arts at Oxford and entered the Franciscan order about 1229,d ying prematurelyi n 1233/34, while travelling to the HolyL and. Information about his life can be found in Thomas of Eccleston, Grosseteste' letters,a nd Thomas of Pavia's Dialogue on the Deeds of the Holy FriarsM inor. Twos hort works are attributedt oA dam in 13thcentury manuscripts: an Anglo-Norman exposition of the OurF ather and the Questio de fluxu et refluxu maris;moreover,asummary of Adam'stheory of sound is reported by Master William of Clifford. Thepaper thus examines Adam'sideas about tides and sound,which are grounded on his theories concerning the incorporation of light into aerial and watery particles, and their divergencies from Grosseteste'sg enuine theories. This comparison also allows for ascribing to Adam the shortt reatise, De calore solis,commonlyheld to be by Grosseteste. In addition to these works,the paper considers as et of glosses on Boethius' De institutione musica and as hortw ork on the rainbow,k nown by the incipit Intero mnes impressiones,b otho fw hich present ideas consistent with Adam'sp hysics of light.T he last section of the paper deals with the Expositiono nt he OurF ather,w hich is the onlyt heological text ascribed to Adam and was likelyh is last work. The present paper aims at presentinga'state of the art' on the life and works of an almost unknown English Minor and Master, thatis, Adam of Exeter (Adam de Exonia), known alsoas'of Oxford' (de Oxonia)or'the Red' (Rufus). In the last 20 years, Ihave had several occasions to engagew ith this scholar'swritings, which werer elevant to my research on Robert Grossetestea nd specificallyh is teachingt ot he Oxford Franciscan community.¹ Adam,i ndeed, was one of Grosseteste'sp upils and af riend and  These are the studies in which,e xtensively or in part,Ihave dealtw ith Adam of Exetera nd his works: Cecilia Panti, 'Suono interiore em usica umana fra tradizione boeziana ea ristotelismo:l e glossep seudo-grossatestiane al De institutione musica,' in Parvan aturalia:s aperi medievali, natura evita,ed.

A companion to Ælfric, 2009

2015

Limits to Learning. The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Concetta Giliberto and Loredana Teresi, 2013

"This paper raises two questions in particular: why, out of all the biblical books, did Ælfric restrict his choice of biblical commentary to one on Genesis? And secondly, why, of all the many commentaries on Genesis available to him, did Ælfric decide to translate Alcuin’s tract?"

Color in Cusanus, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (review), 2022

In his erudite study of Cusa's thought, Jeffrey Hamburger focuses primarily on the diagrammatic illustrations to Cusa's De coniecturis ("On Surmises"). Forty-two full page color plates accompany his text. The captions for each plate, along with short descriptions lifted from the main text, are placed mostly on the facing pages, which are otherwise blank. This extravagance of space adds to the overall impression of the luxuriousness of this short hardcover book, almost half of which comprises the material of the color plates. These range in subject from an eleventh-century cosmological diagram of Bede's eighth century treatise, De Temporum Ratione ("The Reckoning of Time") to near contemporary illustrations such as one of Heymeric of Camp's mid fifteenth-century diagrams of Sigillum aeternitatis ("The Seal of Eternity"), a copy of which Cusa owned.

Francia-Recensio, 2018

rezensiert von | compte rendu rédigé par Constant Mews, Clayton This imposing publication marks the completion of a project whose roots go back many decades. The »Notae Dunelmenses«, preserved in a mid 12 th century manuscript of the Dean and Chapter Library at Durham Cathedral (C.IV.29), is of great importance because it reports the teaching of William of Champeaux on Priscian's »Institutiones grammaticae«. The »Notae« thus give insight into the intensity of discussion about language at exactly the same time as his student, Peter Abelard, was challenging so many of his teacher's arguments within his »Dialectica« and then his »Logica ›Ingredientibus‹«. From the outset it should be affirmed that as an edition with a major introduction, these two volumes are a triumph of scholarship, completing a project already announced in another volume in the »Artistarium« series, »Arts du langage et théologie aux confins des XI e-XII e siècles«, edited by Irène Rosier-Catach (2011). The Introduction begins with descriptions, not just of the manuscript in which the »Notae« occur (on f. 2 ra-193 va), but of two other Durham manuscripts with similar contents. One (C.IV.7), contains the commentaries of William of Champeaux on Cicero's »De inventione« and the »Rhetorica ad Herennium«, a treatise on Macrobius, glosses on Plato's »Timaeus« attributed by Paul Dutton to Bernard of Chartres, and a commentary on the »De arithmetica«, whose authorship still has to be determined. The other (A.IV.15) contains theological texts from the early decades of the 12 th century: glosses of Anselm of Laon on John and the first book only of Abelard's »Theologia christiana«, followed by four anonymous theological discussions (one of which reflects the teaching of Roscelin of Compiègne, although this is not mentioned in the introduction). The editors (1, p. 45-47) acknowledge the common background of these manuscripts, all apparently from

2023

Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 138/2. De Gruyter, 2023. xxiv, 294 p

Anglo-Saxon England, 1981

, and the Wiirzburg Manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes', ASE 5 (1976), 16.1 have discussed in detail the letter and the material mentioned in my next paragraph in a book on the dioceses of Worcester and Hereford in the seventh and eighth centuries, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Speculum, 1982