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¹⁰ ‘Quod maxime in novissimis temporibus, antichristo regno appropinquante, futurum exspectamus, quando iuxta dominicam et apostolicam scntentiam…mala omnia amplius pullulare’: TChr, iv lines 1,070–3, 1,074.

¹¹ ‘tempora peliculosa’: ibid., line 1,076.

¹² ‘in novissimis temporibus venient illusorcs’: Jude 18; ibid. line 1,088.

¹³ Discussion by Mews in Theologia ‘Scholarium’, ed. Buytaert, E. M. and Mews, C.J., Petri Abatlardi Opera Theologica, CCCM xiii. 218–19Google Scholar; notes by Buytaert, , TChr, 301–3.Google Scholar

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¹⁷ ‘quasi reus et convictus…ad carcerem trahor’: HC, lines 906–7,908–9. On the abbey of St-Médard sec the articles by D. Defente listed by Bonde, S. and Maines, C., ‘The archaeology of monasticism: a survey of recent work in France’, Speculum lxiii (1988), 816–17.Google Scholar

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¹⁹ Vita Gosiini, 445E.

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²¹ HC, line 915, ‘insanus’.

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²⁴ ‘fuit et quidam’: ibid., line 1,206.

²⁵ ‘quemdam non parvi nominis inter huius temporis magistros’: ibid., lines 1,147–8; ‘quidam…inter divinos celeberrimus magistros’: lines 1,160–1.

²⁶ ‘Fuit et quidam novissimis temporibus nostris, Anselmus videlicet Cantuariensis metropolitanus’: ibid., lines 1,206–7.

²⁷ See above n. 10.

²⁸ Luscombe concludes that Abelard ‘generally had sharp words of personal criticism and scorn for other masters but, significantly, he stops short of this with Anselm’: ‘St Anselm’, 218. But he takes no account of the context of scorning his fellow masters in which Abelard places St Anselm in TChr. Consequently Luscombe misses the significance of ‘quidam’, and he translates ‘novissimis temporibus’ as ‘recent times’ (ibid. 211) without the superlative.

²⁹ See above n. 21.

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³¹ Metalogicon i. 5, ed. Webb, C.C.J., Oxford 1929, 17–18.Google Scholar Southern, ‘The schools’, 116, cites a letter showing the prestige of Anselm of Laon.

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³³ ‘qui, servata substantiae unitate, validorem visus est similitudinem ad haec quae diximus induxisse. Cuius, ni fallor, similitudinis fundamentum a beato sumpsit Augustino scribente ad Laurentium papam’: TChr, iv lines 1,206–11.

³⁴ ‘tres igitur sum fons, rivus, lacus, et unus Nilus, unus fluvius, una natura, una acqua’: De incamatione Verbi, ed. Schmitt, F. S., in Sancti Anselmi Opera Omnia, Edinburgh 1946-1961, ii. 31 lines 19–20.Google Scholar In citations from DeIV I have benefited from the translation by Hopkins, J. and Richardson, H. W., Anselm of Canterbury: Trinity, incarnation, and redemption, rev. edn, New York 1970.Google Scholar

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³⁷ ‘itaque praedictus archiepiscopus…posuit etiam rivum in fistula quasi Filium in carne humana, ac si rivum infistulatum dicamus verbum incarnatum’: TChr, iv lines 1,214, 1,218–20.

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⁴⁹ ‘Quae de me ad discipulos suos scripserit, dicere non curo’: letter clxxxtx, SBO, 1 line 23.

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⁵³ ‘Sed haec quoque similitudo non magis satisfacere potest, quod non est simul eader substantia fontis et rivi atque stagni, sed per temporis successionem eadem aqua prim fons erat, deinde rivus, denique stagnum facta est’: TChr, iv lines 1,220–4.

⁵⁴ ‘Immo fortassis haec similitudo illi maxime suffragatur haeresi quae ita per tempora proprietates personarum commiscet, ut eamdem personam dicat quando vult esse Patrem, quando vult Filium vel Spiritum Sanctum’: ibid., lines 1,229–33. In order to sustain the argument that ‘this criticism does not read like a sharp or vindictive attack’, Luscombe, art. cit. 225, translates ‘maxime’ as ‘particularly’, ‘suffragatur’ as ‘lends itself’, and ‘illi haeresi’ as ‘a heretical view’ (ibid. 212).

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⁵⁶ Gesta Fred., 226 line 22.

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⁵⁸ See n. 5 above.

⁵⁹ TSch, preface, line 1.

⁶⁰ ‘Patrem itaque fonti, Filium rivo, Spiritimi Sanctum comparant stagno. Quod a incarnationem verbi demonstrandum sic attendunt rivum in fistula, quasi Filium in carr humana, ac si rivum infistulatum dicamus verbum incarnatum’ : TSch, ii lines 1,798–1,80

⁶¹ ‘attendile, fratres et verbosi amici’: ibid., line 1,339; ‘quidam nostrorum attendentes line 1,792.

⁶² Ibid. lines 995–1,039.

⁶³ Ibid. line 1,802.

⁶⁴ Mews, TSch, 220.

⁶⁵ TChr, iv lines 1,220–1; TSch, ii lines 1,807–8.

⁶⁶ TChr, iv line 1,230; TSch, ii line 1,812.

⁶⁷ ‘contumelias et minas evomuerit, viso opusculo quodam nostro de fide sanete trinitatis, maxime adversus heresim prefatam qua ipse infamis est, conscripto’: letter xiv, ed. Smits, 279 lines 8-to. Mews, TSumB, 39. Smits has no warrant for capitalising ‘Dc Fide Sancte Trinitatis’ as if it were the title of a book.

⁶⁸ Mews, TSumB, 17–19.

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⁷⁰ ‘debite correccioni subiaccat vel ille de tanti eriminis inposicione vel ego de tanta scribendi presumpcione’: letter xiv, ed. Smits, 279 lines 19–21. L. Kolmar notes the parallel between this request and Abelard's letter to the archbishop of Sens in 1140, ‘Abaelard und Bernhard von Clairvaux in Sens’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte xcviii: Kanonistiche Abteilung lxvii (1981), 131 n. 41.

⁷¹ John the Monk to St Anselm, letter exxviii, Opera, ed. Schmitt, iii. 27: lines 11–13; St Anselm to Fulk, bishop of Beauvais, letter cxxxvi, ibid. 279 lines 7–8.

⁷² St Anselm to John the Monk, letter cxxix, ibid. 271 lines 6–7.

⁷³ Letter cxxxvi, ibid. 280–1.

⁷⁴ See n. 95 below.

⁷⁵ ‘duo illi antiqui insidiatores’: HC, lines 709–10.

⁷⁶ ‘egregiis vins’: Gesta Fred., 226 line 20.

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⁸⁰ ‘magistri nostri Ros[cellini]’: Dialectica, 554 line 37. Roscelin reminded Abelard that ‘a puero usque ad iuvenem sub magistri nomine et actu exhibui’: letter, ed. Reiners, 63 lines 3–4.

⁸¹ See n. 67 above.

⁸² ‘Non contristabit justum quicquid ei acciderit’: HC, lines 1,602–3.

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⁹¹ ‘minus quam ncccsse esset Htteratus’: HC, lines 855–6.

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⁹⁴ Letter cxciii, SBO, 45 line 10; Gesta Fred., 226 line 22; Vita Gosvini, 445B; Mews, TSumB, 56–7.

⁹⁵ ‘si quid contra errorem respondetur, ostenditur, ut eius prudentia examinetur. Quapropter sicut nulli dignius possum, ita nulli libentius praesentem epistolam quam vestrae destino sapientiae, quatenus si quid in ea corrigendum est, vestra censura castigetur, et quod regulam veritatis, vestra auctoritate roborctur’ : DeIV, 3 line 10–4 line 4.

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¹⁰¹ ‘Jhesu bone, ubi eras?’: ibid. lines 916–17.

¹⁰² DeIV, 6 line 5–8 Hne 6.

¹⁰³ Ibid. 7 lines 3–7.

¹⁰⁴ ‘qui humanas et philosophicas rationes requirebant’: HC, lines 694–5.

¹⁰⁵ ‘nee credi posse aliquid nisi primitus intellectum’: ibid., lines 697–8. HC, lines 690–700, are translated by Luscombe, D. E., ‘Peter Abelard’, in Dronlce, P. (ed.), A History of Twelfth-century Western Philosophy, Cambridge 1988, 293.Google Scholar Without explanation Luscombe omits ‘nec credi posse aliquid nisi primitus intellectum’ from his translation.

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¹⁰⁷ DelV, 6 lines 7–8.

¹⁰⁸ ‘ridiculosum esse aliquem aliis predicare quod nee ipse nec illi quos doceret intellectu capere possent’: HC, lines 698–700. Luscombe, , ‘Peter Abelard’, 293Google Scholar, reduces the force of ‘grasp with the intellect’ by translating ‘intellectu capere’ as ‘accept into their understanding’.

¹⁰⁹ DeIV, 8 lines 4–6.

¹¹⁰ ‘ceci essent duces cecorum’ (Matt. xv. 14): HC, line 701.

¹¹¹ See above n. 60, and HC, line 693.

¹¹² TSch, ii lines 893, 907–10. Gössmann, E., ‘Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Abaelard und Bernhard von Clairvaux um die Gotteserkenntnis im Glauben’, in Thomas, Petrus Abaelardus, 239.Google Scholar

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¹²¹ Letter i, ed. Monfrin in HC, 115 lines 197–8, 194–6, 202–3. Abelard's secular songs, as distinct from his hymns, have not been identified. In general see Huglo, M., ‘Abélard, poète et musicien’, CVM xxii (1979), 352–3.Google Scholar

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¹²⁶ ‘non caute’: Gesta Fred., 226 line 12.

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¹³⁹ ‘Si aliquis est homo, ipse est risibilis’: Dialectica, 319 line 11; and see the variations on this theme at 319–20, 349–52.

¹⁴⁰ ‘Petrus diligit suam puellam’: ibid. 319 line 6.

¹⁴² Letter cxciii, SBO, 44 line 18.

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