Author: Richard Rufus of Cornwall, O.F.M. student, Paris; taught at Oxford c. 1250 and Paris, 1256
Dating: Richard entered the Franciscans in 1238 while in Paris where he was possibly a student of the arts. He lectured on the Sentences in Oxford c. 1250. From 1253-1256 he lectured on the Sentences again in Paris.and in 1256 became a master of theology in Oxford where he composed a summary of Bonaventure's commentary on the Sentences. He was still alive in 1259.
Works: All unedited. manuscripts given by Peter Raedts, Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Tradition of Oxford Theology. Clarendon: Oxford, 1987.
Commentarias super sententias: (The commentary on the fourth book of the sentences is lost)
Abbrevatio Bonaventurae
Questiones disputatae
Bibliography:
Wolfgang Georgi, "Richard Rufus von Cornwall," BBK 8
(1994): 209-10
R. Quinto, "Richard Rufus von Cornwall," LMA 7 (1994): 821
F. Pelster, "Der älteste Sentenzenkommentar aus der Oxforder
Fraziskanerschule," Scholatik, 1 (1926), 50-80.
Peter Raedts, Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Tradition of
Oxford Theology (Claredon: Oxford, 1987)