Summa (Quaestiones Ordinariae) Art. LX-LXII

Critical
edition of articles 60–62 of Henry’s Summa
devoted to the Trinity

Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of the last quarter of the 13th
century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in
the following century and into the Renaissance.

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

Articles 60–62 were distributed by the university in
Paris by means of two successive exemplars divided into peciae. Manuscripts copied from each have survived and the text of
the critical edition has been established based upon the reconstructed text of
these two exemplars. Reconstructing the first exemplar was complicated by the
fact that one manuscript contains replacement peciae of the first exemplar and these may have been the models for
other manuscript copies.

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

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).