The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
10. =Thomas de Bungay= (Suffolk) has been traditionally associated with
Roger Bacon and regarded as a wizard by later generations. Very little is
known of him. He perhaps entered the Order at Norwich. He lectured as D.D.
in the Franciscan convent at Oxford about 1270; he seems like Roger to
have attached a great importance to mathematics and may have held his
views on the value of natural science and of induction. He lectured
afterwards at Cambridge, being the fifteenth in the list of Franciscan
masters there. He was the eighth English Provincial Minister, and was
succeeded by Peckham, probably in 1275. He was buried at
Northampton[1016].
According to the Catalogue of Illustrious Franciscans he wrote a
Commentary on the _Sentences_[1017]. None of his works are printed; only
one seems to be extant in MS.
_De celo et mundo_: 3 books. _Inc._ ‘Summa cognicionis, &c.
Aristoteles probat his tres questiones in primo capitulo. Prima est
quod omne corpus est completum quo ad divisiones.’ _Expl._ ‘Hic
terminantur questiones super 3 c. et m. a Magistro T. de bungeya.’
MS. Cambridge:--Caius Coll. 509, § 3 (sec. xiv. ineuntis).
Cf. MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris 16144 (sec. xiii), ‘Thomas super librum de
celo et mundo’ (Aquinas?).
11. =John Peckham= was born in Sussex and received his earliest education
in the Priory of Lewes[1018]. He took the Franciscan vows about
1250[1019]; he was then tutor to the nephew of Master H. of Anjou, perhaps
in the University of Paris, but was probably for the time being residing
at Oxford[1020]. On entering the Order he resigned the tutorship. Adam
Marsh calls him ‘_Dominus Johannes de Pescham Scholaris_;’ he may
therefore either have had no degree at this time, or that of bachelor. He
appears to have spent some time at Oxford, as in later years he expresses
his gratitude for the training he received in the Franciscan convent of
that University[1021]. He then returned to France, studied under
Bonaventura, and took the Doctor’s degree at Paris, where he ruled in
theology[1022]. Among his pupils was St. Thomas of Cantilupe, Bishop of
Hereford[1023]. At Paris too he came in contact with Thomas Aquinas and
probably attended his lectures. He was present when the latter submitted
his doctrine about the ‘Unity of form’ to the judgment of the masters in
theology;
‘we alone,’ the Archbishop wrote afterwards, ‘stood by him, defending
him to the best of our power, saving the truth[1024].’
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