Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LX-LXII

Criticaledition of articles 60-62 of Henry's Summadevoted to the Trinity Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of the last quarter of the 13thcentury and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also inthe following century and into the Renaissance.

This critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 60-62 deals with the Trinity. The respective articlesare based upon this scholastic philosopher's lectures in the theology facultyat the university in Paris and can be dated to slightly after Advent 1290. ForHenry and his contemporaries, Trinitarian analysis entailed both metaphysicaland epistemological issues which required serious thought and in these articlesHenry treats active spiration, a property common to the Father and Son;properties proper to the Holy Spirit; and properties common to all the personsof the Trinity, namely identity, equality, and similitude.

Articles 60-62 were distributed by the university inParis by means of two successive exemplars divided into peciae. Manuscripts copied from each have survived and the text ofthe critical edition has been established based upon the reconstructed text ofthese two exemplars. Reconstructing the first exemplar was complicated by thefact that one manuscript contains replacement peciae of the first exemplar and these may have been the models forother manuscript copies.

This volume should beof interest to those studying theology, philosophy, and book distribution inthe Middle Ages, as well as to scholars of (medieval) teaching at theuniversity in Paris.

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