Richard Rufus of Cornwall

Richard Rufus
Born	1200 England
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Occupation	Philosopher
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Richard Rufus of Cornwall (Richardus Rufus Cornubiensis OFM, Richardus Rufus de Cornubia, Richard Rufus von Cornwall).

Life

Very little is known of Richard's life. He became a Franciscan in 1238, after which he moved to Oxford to stufy theology. Around 1250 he lectured on Peter Lombard's Sentences at Oxford, and again later at Paris. He returned to England to be the fifth Oxford Franciscan master of theology around 1256.

Work

Richard is the author of the earliest surviving lectures on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physica, De generatione et corruptione, and De anima.

Primary sources

• Abstractiones
• Contra Averroem
• De causa individuationis (Inc.: 'O flos pulcherrime qui solus es scietas anime ...')
• De Deo (Quaestio "An sit Deus", Quaestio "De unitate Dei", Quaestio "De aeternitate Dei")
• De ideis (Inc.: 'Liceat parumper disserere de quibusdam uerbis ...')
• De intellectu divino
• De materia in angelis
• De mutatione
• De rationibus seminalibus
• De speciebus intelligibilibus
• Dissertatio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
• In Analytica posteriora Aristotelis (Sententia super libros posteriorum analyticorum Aristotelis)
• In De anima
• In De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis
• In Meteora
• In Physicam Aristotelis
• Inc.: 'Que sit materia diuinarum scripturarum. Materia diuinarum scripturarum omnium sunt opera restauracionis hominis ...'
• Lectura Oxoniensis in Sententias (Commentarius in IV libros Sententiarum)
• Lectura Parisiensis in Sententias (Liber I abbreviatus super Sententias Magistri Bonaventurae, Abbreviatio)
• Memoriale quaestionum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
• Miserabilis humana conditio (Miserabilis est humana conditio)
• Scriptum super Metaphysicam (Inc.: 'Liceat nobis parumper disserere de quadam proposicione ...')
• Sermo
• Speculum animae
• Syncategorematica

Secondary sources

• Lohr, Charles: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, in: Traditio 28 (1972), 281-396.
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project: http://rrp.stanford.edu/index.html.
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall: In Physicam Aristotelis, hrsg. v. Wood Rega, Oxford/New York 2003 [Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, XVI].
• Richardus Rufus Project: http://rrp.stanford.edu/index.html.
• Sharpe, Richard: A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Turnhout 1997.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus of Cornwall", in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, hrsg. v. Jorge J. E. Gracia/Timothy B. Noone, Malden/Oxford/Victoria 2006 [Blackwell Companions to Philosophy].
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus's De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: "Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary", in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 110-156.
• Wood, Rega: Richard Rufus' "Speculum animae": Epistomology and the Introduction of Aristotle in the West, in: Miscellanea Mediaevalia 23 (1994), 86-109.

Notability

This philosopher has 8 pages in the Blackwell Companion.