Munich. BSB clm. 14458

“In omni doctrina" (MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 14458. fols. 29ra-39rb

Burnett:

The status of res and voces was very much the concern of the early 'vocales' (later known as 'nominalists') of which Roscelin was one of the most important. Adelard's arguments are especially close to those of the Pseudo-Rhabanus' commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and of an anonymous commentary on the same text in MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14458. In Adelard's summary of rhetoric there are parallels with theories of William of Champeaux, who may have been in Laon when Adelard was there. Adelard seems also to have been influenced by the anonymous Glosule ad Priscianum. This late eleventh-century work was present in a manuscript in Chartres; it has recently been suggested that it was written by John of Rheims. the teacher of Roscelin.

References

• Charles Burnett, Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew, Cambridge 1998.