Lambert of Auxerre
{{Short description|13th century logical and author}}
Lambert of Auxerre was a medieval 13th century logician best known for writing the book "Summa Lamberti" or simply "Logica" The Summa Lamberti is now attributed to Lambert of Lagny (Lambertus de Latiniaco) (fl. 1250): see A. de Libera (1982). in the mid 1250s which became an authoritative textbook on logic in the Western tradition.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c2nmqagEz6QC|title = Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic|last = Gabbay|first = Dov M.|last2 = Woods|first2 = John|date = 2008-03-14|publisher = Elsevier|isbn = 9780080560854|language = en}} He was a Dominican in the Dominican house at Auxerre. His contemporaries were Peter of Spain, William of Sherwood, and Roger Bacon.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MOqtNYn8qzkC|title = The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 1, Logic and the Philosophy of Language|last = Kretzmann|first = Norman|last2 = Stump|first2 = Eleonore|date = 1988-01-01|publisher = Cambridge University Press|isbn = 9780521280631|language = en}}
Works and Translations
- [http://www.studiumanistici.unimi.it/files/_ITA_/Filarete/059.pdf Logica (Summa Lamberti)], First edition of the Latin text by Franco Alessio, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1971.
- Logica, or Summa Lamberti, translated with notes and introduction by Thomas S. Maloney, Notre Dame University Press, 2015.
- Properties of Terms, in Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, trans., in Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, Vol. 1: Logic and the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 102–162.
- Alain de Libera, Le traité De appellatione de Lambert de Lagny (Lambert d’Auxerre), Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age, 48, pp. 227–285, 1982.
Further reading
- L. M. de Rijk, On the genuine text of Peter of Spain’s Summule logicales, IV: The Lectura tractatuum by Guillelmus Arnaldi, master of arts at Toulouse (1235–1244). With a note on the date of Lambert of Auxerre’s Summule. Vivarium 7, 1969, pp. 120–162.
- A. de Libera, De la logique à la grammaire: remarques sur la théorie de la détermination chez Roger Bacon et Lambert d’Auxerre (Lambert de Lagny), In: Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen and E.F.K. Koerner (eds.), De Ortu Grammaticae. Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Memory of Jan Pinborg, John Benjamin, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1990, pp. 209–226.
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