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 1 - Texts from the circle of Alcuin
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
THE FORTUNE OF THE MUNICH PASSAGES
The fortune of the Munich Passages in the Middle Ages was of two markedly different kinds: for the dicta Albini and, to a much lesser extent, the dicta Candidi, a wide and various diffusion; for the other passages, a limited and specialized readership. This pattern emerges most clearly from the list of surviving manuscripts of the Passages which I have compiled (see below, pp. 149–51). In the following paragraphs, I will summarize the results of this survey.
To deal with the fortune of the Passages besides the two dicta first. Besides V, no Carolingian manuscript of the Munich Passages complete or nearly so survives, although an epistolary version of the dicta Candidi, written between 801 and 805, does append Passage I. Benedict of Aniane, who, like Candidus, helped Alcuin in opposing the adoptionist heresy, borrows a number of passages in his Munimenta fidei, where they stand side by side with material from Augustine's De Trinitate, one of their main sources. Two later manuscripts contain a substantial selection of the Passages. B, which dates from the second half of the ninth century, contains all the Passages except for the dicta Albini, x and xI: it is almost certainly a copy of a school-book from the milieu of Candidus himself. P is complete, except for the dicta Albini and Passage VI. The manuscript dates from the first half of the tenth century and was probably produced in the School of Auxerre.
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- From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of AuxerreLogic, Theology and Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages, pp. 144 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981