R. James Long

Adam of Bockenfield, Glossae super De vegetabilibus et plantis

R. James Long furnishes a critical edition of Adam of Bockenfields widely influential commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on plants, which constituted the set text in university curricula at Oxford as well as Paris by mid-13th century.

Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, ed. A. S. McGrade

than a hypothetical sense, Balthasars analogy supports the Churchs concrete efficacy as the sacrament of salvation. This is a move that Rahners system, grounded in analogy, could easily have exploited, perhaps more effectively than did Balthasar. As a tribute to its competence, each chapter of Burkes book is a tour de force inviting Rahners enduring legacy to interpret issues of immediate concern. May it serve as a vade mecum for all who, like Rahner, share the conviction that metaphysics is the only adequate hermeneutic of the Christian religion.

A Newly Discovered Witness of Fishacre's Sentences Commentary: University of Chicago MS 156

A manuscript in the collection of the University of Chicago, which is labeled in the catalogue as Promptuarium homileticum , has turned out on closer inspection to be a partial copy of Richard Fishacres Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the first such commentary composed at Oxford. Bearing the eighteenth-century bookplate of Edward Browne and the 1792 bookplate of the executors of the estate of Thomas Eyre, the manuscript, now catalogued as University of Chicago MS 156, was purchased from Percy Dobell and Son by Shirley Farr, class of 1904, and donated to the university in 1926. The source of the title Promptuarium homileticum can be traced back at least as far as the dealers listing, which was subsequently tipped into the manuscript and copied uncritically by Seymour De Ricci in his 1935 Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada .