[Ansteorra] Re: What would your persona be reading?

[Marc Carlson]

Excellent question.

As we are fairly wealthy, we actually have a decent library for the time: a
Bible, a copy of Summa Theologica (the Aquinas, of course), bound excerpts
from Albertus Magnus (De vegetabilibus et plantis, De morte et vita, De
natura et origine animae), a copy of the Speculum Regia, and a personal
collection of notebooks on a wide range of topics.  I have recently had a
fechtbuch from Wurzberg copied as a gift for a friend.  I have recently
commissioned a copy of a travelogue by a Venetian who claimed to have gone
to Cathay.  I am hoping to borrow a copy of the Manipulus Florium, now that
de Hibernia has finished it.  I am working my way through some books by a
Florentine poet named Alighieri as I can find them Added to that, of course,
is my correspondence - with a wide range of people (including yourselves,
William of Ockham);  and, of course, business documents.

As for what I've read - having in my youth been to University in Paris, I've
read a good many things, as well as learned from the presence of some of the
masters there (such as Roger Bacon).  These have included all the true
standards such as Aristotle, Bacon, Peter Lombard, Averroes, Abelard, the
late Duns Scotus (although most of his best work is only available among
those of us who knew him).

Diarmaid

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