Adam Burley

Adam Burley (died 1327/8) was a philosopher educated at University College, Oxford.

Adam is responsible for two questions commentaries, preserved uniquely in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 668*/645:

  • Quaestiones I–II de Anima, on the De anima of Aristotle;[1]
  • Quaestiones de Sex principiis, on the Liber sex principiorum, a medieval expansion of the Categories.[2]

His work appears in the manuscript with the work of other Oxford scholars, including Walter Burley, Richard Campsall, and Peter Bradele.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Synan, Edward A. (1997). Questions on the De anima of Aristotle by Magister Adam Burley and Dominus Walter Burley. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004106550.
  2. ↑ Synan, Edward A. (1970). "Four Questions by Adam Burley on the Liber sex principiorum". Mediaeval Studies. 32: 60–90. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306074.
  3. ↑ "Burley, Adam (d. 1327/8)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53177. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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