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farfel_n09_040_590

John of Wales - Britich Franciscan scholar
born ? 1210-30
Bachelor of Theology from Oxford.
Lectorship at Oxford 1259-62?
went to Paris around 1270.
1281-3, Regent Master of Theology at Paris.
died April 1285 - buried in Paris. His use of source
material is one of the most distinctive features of his works.

Communiloquium - completed by c 1270.

quotes some 122 works from 45 authors
dating from before AD 450 + some 82 works
from 56 authors of a later date. There are 1600
non-biblical references in the whole work including
14 to Aristotle's Ethics:

aims to discuss all the different groups in
society.

the section which gave a moralisation to the
game of chess escaped from the main text on
more than one occasion. 4 MSS survive which
contain only this section of John's work among
their contents. All are of the 15th C. + appear to
be English in origin.

John's works - the hundreds of surviving MS
copies range in date from the late 13th C. to
the late 15th C.

a dual tradition, Visigothic + Carolingian which
governs the development of handwriting in Iberia.

farfel_n09_040_590

John of Wales - Britich Franciscan scholar
born ? 1210-30
Bachelor of Theology from Oxford.
Lectorship at Oxford 1259-62?
went to Paris around 1270.
1281-3, Regent Master of Theology at Paris.
died April 1285 - buried in Paris. His use of source
material is one of the most distinctive features of his works.

Communiloquium - completed by c 1270.

quotes some 122 works from 45 authors
dating from before AD 450 + some 82 works
from 56 authors of a later date. There are 1600
non-biblical references in the whole work including
14 to Aristotle's Ethics:

aims to discuss all the different groups in
society.

the section which gave a moralisation to the
game of chess escaped from the main text on
more than one occasion. 4 MSS survive which
contain only this section of John's work among
their contents. All are of the 15th C. + appear to
be English in origin.

John's works - the hundreds of surviving MS
copies range in date from the late 13th C. to
the late 15th C.

a dual tradition, Visigothic + Carolingian which
governs the development of handwriting in Iberia.