Author: William of Auvergne (b. c. 1180, d. 1249)Paris, 1225-1228

Dating: William was canon of Notre Dame in 1223. He opposed the election of Philippe de Nemours to the see of Paris in 1227 as uncanonical. When as a deacon, William took the case to Rome, Gregory IX chose William as Bishop of Paris, consecrating William himself in 1228.

Works: Many of William's works were edited in an Opera omnia prepared by Blaise Le Ferron and published in Paris and Orleans in 1674. This edition has been reproduced in Frankfurt in 1963.
Glorieux, Répertoire, vol. 1, pp. 315-20 lists 26 works attributed to William. Glorieux's list has been updated and corrected by Paul Viard, "Guillaume d'Auvergne," DS 6 (1967): 1182-92.
Magisterium divinale et sapientiale: Joseph Kramp, "Des Wilhelms von Auvergne 'Magisterium divinale,'" Gregoriaunum 1 (1920): 538-613; 2 (1921): 42-103 and 174-195 has demonstrated that William's principle work is his Magisterium divinale et sapientiale made up of De trinitate, De universo creaturam, De anima, De causis cur Deus homo, De fide et de legibus, De sacramentis, and De virtutibus et de moribus. These tracts from the Magisterium are still sometimes treated as separate works.

Editions since Le Ferron:
De immortalitate animae: Edited by George Bülow, Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele nebst einem Anhange, entlhaltend die Abhandlung des Wilhelm von Paris (Auvergne) De immortatlitate animae. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Philosophie des Mittelalters, vol. 2, no. 3. Aschendorff: Münster, 1897.

De arte predicandi: "De arte predicandi: Un manuel de prédication médiévale," Revue néoscolastique de philosophie, 1923, pp. 192-209.

De errore Pelagii: Edited by Artur Landgraf, "Der Tractatus 'De errore Pelagii' de Wilhelm von Auvergne," Speculum 5 (1930): 168-80.

De bono et malo: Edited by J. Reginald O'Donnell, "Tractatus Magistri Guilielmi Alvernensis de bono et malo," Mediaeval Studies 8 (1946):245-99; 16 (1954): 219-71.

De gratia: Edited by Guglielmo Corti, "Le sette parte del Magisterium divinale et sapientiale di Guglielmo di Auvergne," Studi e richerche di scienze religiose in onore dei santi apostoli Petro e Paulo nel XIX cenenario del loro martiro. Facultas theologica pontificae Universitatis Lateranensis: Rome, 1968, pp. 289-307.

De Trinitate: Edited by Bruno Switalski, William of Auvergne, De Trinitate, An Edition of the Latin Text with an Introduction. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Toronto, 1976.

Bibliography:

Glorieux, Répertoire, vol. 1, pp. 315-20
Landgraf, Introduction, p. 178
Paul Viard, "Guillaume d'Auvergne," DS 6 (1967): 1182-92
Albrecht Quentin, Naturkenntness und Naturanschauungen bei Wilhelm von Auvergne. Hildescheim: Gertenberg, 1976.
Stephen Marrone, William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste. New Ideas of Truth in the Early Thirteenth Century. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1983.
Harry Hazel III, "William of Auvergne," DMA 12 (1989): 636-7.
William of Auvergne, The Trinity or the First Principle. Translated from the Latin by Francis C. Wade and Roland Teske. Introduction and Notes by Roland Teske. Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation, vol. 28. Marquette University Press: Milwaukee, 1989.
William of Auvergne, The Immortality of the Soul [De Immortalitate animae]. Translated from the Latin with an Introduction and Notes by Roland Teske. Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation, vol. 30. Marquette University Press: Milwaukee, 1991.
F. N. Dicktra, "The Supplementum Tractatus Novi de Poenitentia of Guillaume d'Auvergne and Jacque de Vitry's Lost Treatise on Confession, RThAM 56 (1994): 22-41
Stegmüller, 2 (1950): 398-9
Schneyer, 2 (1970): 373-415