Author: Matthew of Aquasparta, O.F.M.
Dating: Matthew may have joined the Franciscans as early as 1254. He studied under Bonaventure in Paris c. 1268. From 1270 until 1273 Matthew lectured on the Sentences in Paris, and was regen mater there 1275-6. He taught in Bologna and Rome before becoming Minister General of the Franciscans in 1279. From 1279 until 1287 he was official theologian of the Roman curia and in 1288 he was named Cardinal. Matthew died in 1302.
Works: The best guide to the nearly thirty works ascribed to Matthew is that of Victorin Doucet, Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de gratia ... cum introductione critica de magisterio et scriptis eiusdem doctoris. Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 11. Ad Claras Aquas: Florence, 1935, pp. lviii-clv.
Scriptorial works: See Doucet, Quaestiones, pp. lix-lxx and Stegmüller, 3 (1951): 543-547. The Introitus ad sacram scripturam and Introitus ad sacram theologiam have been edited by PP. Collegium S. Bonaventurae, Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de fidei et de cognitione. 2nd ed. Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 1. Quaracchi: Florence, 1957, pp. 3-21 and pp. 22-33 respectively.
Commentarius in primum, secondum et quartum librum sententiarum: Unedited, see Doucet, Quaestiones, pp. lxxi-cvii.
Breviloquium de SS. Trinitate: Unedited, see Doucet, Quaestiones, p. cvii.
Tractatus de aeterna Spritus sancti processione. Edited Doucet, Quaestiones, pp. 410-432.
Questiones disputatae et Quodlibetales: See Doucet,
Quaestiones, p. cviii-cxxxvii. The following have been
edited:
Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de
gratia ... Edited by Victorin Doucet, Biblioteca franciscana
Scholastica medii aevi, 11. Ad Claras Aquas: Florence, 1935
Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de
fidei et de cognitione. Edited by PP. Collegium S. Bonaventurae,
2nd ed. Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 1. Quaracchi:
Florence, 1957
Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de
productione rerum et de providentia. Edited by Gideon
Gàl,. Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 17.
Quaracchi: Florence, 1956
Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de
incarnatione et de lapsu aliaeque selectae de Christo et de
Eucharistia. Edited by PP. Collegium S. Bonaventurae,. Biblioteca
franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 2. 2nd ed. Quaracchi: Florence,
1957
Matthieu d'Aquasparta, Quaestiones disputatae de anima XII.
Edited by A.-J. Gondras. Études de philosophie
médiévale, 50. J. Vrin: Paris, 1961.
Fr. Matthaei ab Aquasparta, O.F.M. ... Quaestiones disputatae de
anima separata, de anima beata, de ieiunio et de legibus. Edited
by PP. Collegium S. Bonaventurae,. Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica
medii aevi, 18 Quaracchi: Florence, 1959
Sermones: See Doucet, Quaestiones, pp. cxxxix-clii, Schneyer, 4 (1972): 149-67 and Mattaei ab Aquasparta ... Sermones de S. Francisco, de S. Antonio et de S. Clara. Appendix: Sermo de potestate papae. Edited by Gedeon Gàl, Biblioteca franciscana Scholastica medii aevi, 10 Quaracchi: Florence, 1962
Conciones de potestate papae: Only one remains, see Doucet, Quaestiones, pp. clii- cliii. Edited in Histoire du differénd d'entre le pape Boniface VII et Philippes le Bel roy de France, Paris, 1655, pp. 73-7
Bibliography:
Werner Dettlogg, "Matthäus von Acquasparta," BBK 5
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A. Huning, "Matthaeus von Acquasparta," LMA 6 (1993):
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