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
61. =Adam Wodham= or =Godham= was one of the most famous of the later
Franciscan schoolmen[1185]. He is said to have lived chiefly at Norwich,
London, and Oxford[1186], and was probably reader in theology at several
convents in succession. He was a follower of William of Ockham in
philosophy and probably attended his lectures. He may be the Adam to whom
Ockham’s _Summa logices_ was addressed[1187]. The date of his lecturing as
regent master at Oxford is unknown; it must have been about 1340 or soon
after. He was perhaps the ‘Frater Adam magister in sacra theologia de
Anglia,’ who went to Basel in 1339 to consult Friar James de Porta on some
miracles alleged to have been wrought there[1188]. He died, if we may
believe Bale, at Babwell in 1358[1189].
_Comment. in IV libros Sententiarum_, abbreviated by Henry of Oyta. _Inc.
prol._ ‘Ista est lex Adam.’
MSS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 15892 and 15893 (sec. xiv)[1190].
Bruges, 162, ‘Magistri Adae lecturae super IV. Sententiarum’ (?).
Toulouse, 246, the abbreviated version of the lectures of Adam Godham
or ‘Adam de Vodronio’ by Henry de Hoyta, written in the Franciscan
convent at Paris, A. D. 1399.
Rouen, 581 (sec. xiv-xv).
Printed at Paris, 1512. Perhaps some of the MSS. cited above contain
the original work of Adam Wodham. See Wadding, _Sup. ad Script._ 2-3.
_Quaestiones variae philosophicae et theologicae_, by Godham and
others[1191].
MS. Brit. Mus.: Harl. 3243 (sec. xiv).
_Comment, super Cantica Canticorum._
MS. formerly in the Franciscan Library in London (Leland, _Collect._
III, 49).
_Postilla super Ecclesiasticum_, Lib. I.
‘Ex registro Decani Nordovicensis’ (Bale MS. Bodl. Seld. sup. 64).
_Determinationes_, or, _Determinationes XI_. _Inc._ ‘Utrum officina.’
Mentioned in _Catalogus illustrium Franciscanorum_, and by Bale (MS.
_ut supra_) ‘ex bibliotheca Nordovicensi[1192].’
62. =Robert de Redclive.=
63. =Thomas Radford= (cf. 51st master).
64. =John Went= or =Gwent= was a native of the Bristol custody[1193]. He
probably incepted in theology and lectured to the Friars at Oxford about
1340 or soon after. His character for holiness was such that he was
believed to have wrought miracles in his lifetime[1194]. He succeeded John
de Rodyngton as Provincial Minister, being the twentieth in Order,
probably between 1340 and 1350[1195]. Bale adds:
‘he died at Hereford A. D. 1348, as I have found in a register of the
Minorites[1196].’
It is however not improbable that he found only the first statement in the
register and added the date. Both the catalogues of the Provincial
Ministers state that he was buried at Hereford[1197].
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