Richard Rufus of Cornwall

Richard Rufus of Cornwall (Richardus Rufus Cornubiensis OFM, Richardus Rufus de Cornubia, Richard Rufus von Cornwall).

Life

Very little is known of Richard's life. He became a Franciscan in 1238, after which he moved to Oxford to study theology. Around 1250 he lectured on Peter Lombard's Sentences at Oxford, and again later at Paris. He returned to England to be the fifth Oxford Franciscan master of theology around 1256.

Work

Richard is the author of the earliest surviving lectures on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physica, De generatione et corruptione, and De anima.

Primary sources

See Authors/Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

Secondary sources

• Lohr, Charles: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, in: Traditio 28 (1972), 281-396.
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project: http://rrp.stanford.edu/index.html.
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall: In Physicam Aristotelis, hrsg. v. Wood Rega, Oxford/New York 2003 [Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, XVI].
• Richardus Rufus Project: http://rrp.stanford.edu/index.html.
• Sharpe, Richard: A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Turnhout 1997.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus of Cornwall", in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, hrsg. v. Jorge J. E. Gracia/Timothy B. Noone, Malden/Oxford/Victoria 2006 [Blackwell Companions to Philosophy].
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus's De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: Richard Rufus' "Speculum animae": Epistomology and the Introduction of Aristotle in the West, in: Miscellanea Mediaevalia 23 (1994), 86-109.

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