Original scientific paper
Philosophical Manuscripts in the Franciscan Monastery in Sumartian and their Authors
Vicko Kapitanović
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Hrvatska
Abstract
The small library of the modest Franciscan monastery in Sumartin preserves several university-grade textbooks. Some of them have attracted scientists’ attention already. The author mentions that there had been an active philosophy school in the monastery for a brief period, but he does not find this related to the origins of any of the philosophy manuals. According to the author’s codicological analysis of the text, it may be concluded that what is left of two of the manuscripts was written by the lector Friar Andrija Stančić. As for the authorship of the three remaining manuscripts, attributed to the Friar Andrija Dorotić, the author has not been able to gather conclusive evidence, so he stays undecided. Along with his remarks in the paper, the author also presents an excerpt from a philosophical manuscript about the Adriatic Sea, which shows that treatises of that kind used to be part of university studies.
Keywords
Philosophy; Natural History; Manuscripts; the Franciscans; Sumartin; Stančić; Dorotić
Hrčak ID:
76335
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Publication date:
5.12.2011.
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