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Adam of Buckfield and John Sackville: Some Notes on Philadelphia Free Library MS Lewis European 53

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

R. James Long
R. James Long*
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Fairfield University
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A manuscript which was once thought to have belonged to Petrarch and which is now owned by the Free Library of Philadelphia, currently catalogued as MS Lewis European 53, contains several items of interest to historians of philosophy and science. Included among the twelve mostly anonymous treatises in the codex (see below) are three hitherto unnoticed witnesses to the Aristotle commentaries of the Oxford master of arts, Adam of Buckfield. The sixth item in the collection is one of six surviving copies of Adam's commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian De plantis, four already having been listed in Charles Lohr's inventory published in this journal and the fifth, in a Munich manuscript, having recently been brought to my attention by the same scholar. The ninth item is a copy of the first recension of Adam's commentary on the De sensu et sensato and the tenth item a copy of the first recension of the same master's commentary on the De generatione et corruptione. None of these works has been edited.

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Miscellany
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Traditio , Volume 45 , 1990 , pp. 364 - 367
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Copyright © Fordham University Press 

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References

1 See De Ricci, S., Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada II (New York 1937) 2056. The ascription probably derived from three inserted vellum folios containing Petrarch's ex-libris and a biography.Google Scholar

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4 Viz. MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 14522 (private correspondence, 12 June 1987). I wish here to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to Dr. Lohr for his unfailing and invaluable assistance in my research.Google Scholar

5 Lohr, 321 no. 13.Google Scholar

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7 I am preparing a critical edition of Adam's commentary on De plantis. Google Scholar

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9 According to Emden, Sackville not only studied at Paris but was rector of the University in 1256 (III 1661).Google Scholar

10 Here, as often, De Ricci is unreliable (cf. Traditio 26 [1970] 160).Google Scholar

11 See Tanner, T., Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica I (London 1748) 233 and Jean de Sècheville, De principiis naturae (ed. R.-M. Giguère; Montreal 1956) 9–12. See also Crowley's, T. entry in New Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1967) VII 1074f.Google Scholar

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13 The variants which Emden has found are: de Seccheville, de Arida Villa, Driton, -us, Sackville, Seccheville, Secchevill, Seckville, Sectavilla, Siccavilla (III 1661).Google Scholar

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15 I wish to thank Mr. Frankel, W., the Reference Librarian of the Rare Book Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia, for his generous and expert assistance.Google Scholar

16 The title ‘de memoria et reminiscentia’ is found in the margin in a later hand.Google Scholar

17 The title ‘de sompno et uigilia’ is found in a later hand in the margin at the top of the page.Google Scholar

18 In the upper margin and in a second hand there appears the following note: ‘Incipiunt Glose de uegetabilibus et plantis secundum magistrum Io. de sicca uilla parisiensis.’Google Scholar

19 In the margin in a later hand appears the title ‘liber de morte et uita.’Google Scholar

20 The note ‘incipit liber de sensu et sensato’ is written in the margin.Google Scholar

21 In the upper margin in a second hand there appears the following note: ‘Incipiunt glose libri de generatione et corruptione secundum magistrum Johannem de sicca villa parisiensis.’Google Scholar

22 In the margin in a later hand there appears the following note: ‘Rationes super secundum librum phisicorum et tertium et quartum.’Google Scholar