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Quarto [8.00 tall x 6.00 wide x 2.25 thick]. Collates complete as per Worldcat records. [26], 335 leaves. Paper repair to title and final leaf. A very good, crisp and clean copy in the main of this very early theological work. A handful of leaves with some very early/contemporary marginal notations. Four leaves to the centre with some tears/small paper losses [see images of the worst two]. Minor reading wear, marks or light blemishes else a lovely crisp copy in the main. In remarkable condition for a book that is over 500 years old. Bound in recent full polished calf binding with blind borders to the boards. Raised bands, blind lines & décor to spine compartments. A solid and extremely attractive period style binding of a high quality. £1495.00 Richard of Middleton (Medieval Latin: Richardus de Mediavilla) (c.1249 c.1308) was a member of the Franciscan Order, a theologian, and scholastic philosopher. Richard's origins are unclear: he was either Norman French (from Menneville or Moyenneville) or English (from Middletown). As a Bachelor of the Sentences of Peter Lombard at the University of Paris in 1283, he played a part in the Franciscan commission examining Peter Olivi. He was regent master of the Franciscan studium in Paris from 1284 to 1287, and, on 20 September 1295 in Metz, he was elected Franciscan provincial master of France. He was also subsequently tutor to Louis of Toulouse, son of Charles II of Anjou. He died sometime between 1300 and 1308. His extant theological output is mainly contained in his two commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, which he edited between 1285 and 1295, three sets of Quodlibetal Disputations and some 45 disputed questions. His work is heavily influenced by his predecessors at Paris, including Bonaventure, Henry of Ghent and Thomas Aquinas. Although his philosophy owes much to the Franciscan school of thought, with regard to the plurality of forms in a single substance, for example, he also affirmed universal hylomorphism, thus following Aquinas. In this regard, he did not shy away from synthesizing Aristotelian thought into his own philosophical reasoning, in spite of the hostility surrounding the Averroist doctrines that were condemned at the University of Paris in 1270 and 1277. Along with other masters of theology, his quodlibetal disputations had resonance beyond the immediate milieu of the University.For example, in 1285, he was one of the masters who debated whether annuities were licit or illicit as a form of contract. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAIALABLE. CONTACT US FOR DETAILS. Seller Inventory # ABE-1707223904172
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