Review article
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.51.2(102).1
Blund’s Treatise on the Soul in a Medieval Manuscript from Zadar
Tomislav Janović
orcid.org/0000-0001-9410-4481
; Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the present contribution, I expand on my initial report of 2013 on an intriguing case of a Medieval manuscript dated in the 14th century. The manuscript has been catalogued as belonging to the Dominican monastery in Zadar, its authorship attributed to a friar by the name of Martin, a member of the Lombardian Province and a lector in the Dominican monastery in Split. Since it turned out that the second part of the codex contains a compilation of passages from John Blund’s Treatise on the Soul, a piece of Avicennian philosophical psychology written at the very beginning of the 13th century, the discovery raised several questions regarding the origin, purpose and distribution of the compilation. After presenting the case, I give a detailed, chapter-by-chapter analysis of its content, compared to the critical edition of Blund’s Treatise, trying to discern the logic behind Martin’s selection of passages from this work. In the final section, I consider some historical-philosophical reasons why the occurrence of such a compilation might present even a greater peculiarity than initially thought.
Keywords
Martin of Zadar (Martin de Iadera); John Blund (Iohannes Blund); soul and its powers; Avicenna; Aristotle; analysis of content
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340856
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Publication date:
15.12.2025.
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