This research note identifies for the first time the principium on book I of the Sentences by the prolific polymath Henry of Langenstein (†1397). This discovery, when combined with the four principia of the Augustinian Denis of Modena, provides the evidence necessary to demonstrate that Langenstein lectured on the Sentences at Paris in 1371-1372. The note also establishes the identity of the other eight bachelors of theology who participated in the principial debates that year.

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Au f. 266r du manuscrit Vienne, ÖNB, 4497 un large colophon témoigne d’un épisode dramatique concernant une vague épidémique d’une violence particulière qui a eu un impact conséquent sur les activités de l’Universite de Vienne. Johannes Grössel, l’auteur de cette note, raconte comment en 1436 les cours ont été suspendus, les étudiants renvoyés chez eux, et qu’en une seule journée 70 étudiants et professeurs ont péri à cause de la peste. Le jeune étudiant Grössel a dû suspendre sa lecture des Sentences et déplorer la perte de trois de ses magistères illustres : Petrus Richter de Pirchenwart, Conradus de Herbst, Urbanus de Mellico et Johannes Straddler. L’article propose en annexe une transcription de ce colophon ainsi qu’une image de l’ecriture autographe de Johannes Grössel.

In De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia, composed in 1370, Petrarch expresses his disdain for the contemporary tradition of commentaries on the Sentences; the humanist could not suffer the repetition and the tendency to recycle text. Just after 1500 Erasmus would adopt a similar attitude, deploring the style of the Sentences. 2 Even in the era of the SIEPM, one finds echoes of the same 'humanist' rejection in Louis-Jean Bataillon's review of the edition of John of Ripa's Conclusiones, in which he deems it regrettable that such a talented historian as André Combes would waste his time editing the Sentences commentary of such an unknown theologian. 3 Inspired by Jean Gerson -who preached a