From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Aristotle's Categories and the problems of essence and the Universals: sources for early medieval philosophy
- 2 Logic and theology at the court of Charlemagne
- 3 Problems of the Categories, essence and the Universals in the work of John Scottus and Ratramnus of Corbie
- 4 The circle of John Scottus Eriugena
- 5 Early medieval glosses on the problems of the Categories
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX 1 Texts from the circle of Alcuin
- APPENDIX 2 A Periphyseon florilegium
- APPENDIX 3 Glosses to the Categoriae Decem
- Bibliography (including index of manuscripts and list of abbreviations)
- Index
APPENDIX 2 - A Periphyseon florilegium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Aristotle's Categories and the problems of essence and the Universals: sources for early medieval philosophy
- 2 Logic and theology at the court of Charlemagne
- 3 Problems of the Categories, essence and the Universals in the work of John Scottus and Ratramnus of Corbie
- 4 The circle of John Scottus Eriugena
- 5 Early medieval glosses on the problems of the Categories
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX 1 Texts from the circle of Alcuin
- APPENDIX 2 A Periphyseon florilegium
- APPENDIX 3 Glosses to the Categoriae Decem
- Bibliography (including index of manuscripts and list of abbreviations)
- Index
Summary
I quote the shorter extracts in full; for longer passages, I give the opening and closing words and indicate, in brackets, the contents of the passage. References are to the pages and lines of Sheldon-Williams's edition of the Periphyseon, Book 1. I have provided a more detailed summary and discussion of this material in ‘A Florilegium from the “Periphyseon”’, Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 47, 1980, pp. 271–7.
I. (f.45ra) Ipse namque essentia est omnium qui solus uere est; ut ait Dyonisius Ariopagita: esse, inquit, omnium est superesse diunitatis. (38:25–7)
II. Angelus est essentialis motus intellectualis circa Dominum rerumque causas. (40:32–3)
III. Qui uocat ea quae non sunt tamquam ea quae sunt. Hoc est, eos qui in primo homine perditi sunt et ad quandam insubsistentiam ceciderunt, Deus Pater, per fidem in Filium suum uocat, ut sint sicuti hi qui iam in Christo renati sunt. (44:18–21)
IV. Teophania: incomprehensibilis intellectualis naturae quaedam diuina apparitio. (cf. 46:17–18)
Deus ANARXOS … (f.45rb) … stabilitatem quaerentia. (God as the beginning, middle and end of all things) (58:22–9)
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- From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of AuxerreLogic, Theology and Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages, pp. 171 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981