Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Authorship of the "Scriptum super Metaphysicam"

Noone, Timothy B.

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“…19 Timothy Noone, however, was able to prove that the work was by Rufus. 20 We have since come to recognize critical self-reference as characteristic of Rufus, as for example in his discussions of the eternity of the world where SOx criticizes DMet, which in turn criticizes the Physics commentary. 21 Distancing himself from his earlier secular works is a special case -the phrase "philosophi saeculares" apparently refers only to Rufus.…”

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Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary

Wood

2001

Medieval Philos. Theol.

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Richard Rufus of Cornwall was educated as a philosopher at Paris where he was a master of arts. 1 In 1238, after lecturing on Aristotle's libri naturales, Rufus became a Franciscan and moved to Oxford to study theology, becoming the Franciscan master of theology in about 1256 and probably dying not long after 1259. 2 Rufus's conversion to Franciscanism was marked by a desire to distance himself from Aristotle and other wordly philosophers. As a Franciscan, Rufus to some extent repudiated his own earlier views; occasionally he referred to them as the opinions of a "secular master." In his later career, Rufus used the technical terminology of philosophy sparingly -preferring not to use phrases like 'agent intellect' or 'intellectus adeptus'. And even before Rufus became a Franciscan, he gave an increasingly sympathetic hearing to non-Aristotelian and Platonic views, as is plain from his Contra Averroem (CAv). 3 As a Franciscan, Rufus twice lectured on Peter Lombard's Sentences, first at Oxford in about 1250 where he was the first bachelor of theology to lecture there on Lombard, and then at Paris. 4 Rufus's philosophical works are preserved at Erfurt, in two codices purchased by Amplonius de Berka in about 1400: Quarto 290 and QuartoThe National Endowment for the Humanities has generously underwritten the publication Rufus's De anima commentary. The edition will be prepared in 2002-2003 and will appear in the Stanford edition of Rufus's works.1. Thomas Eccleston, De adventu Fratrum minorum in Angliam c. 6

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