Achard of Saint-Victor, De trinitate

Alternative titles

• De unitate diuinae essentiae et pluralitate creaturarum

Editions

• E. Martineau (Saint-Lambert-des-Bois 1987).

Bibliography

• The work was first identified by M.-T. d’Alverny, RTAM 21 (1954) 299–306.

Repertories

• Mirabile, title 1913

Notes

the only known copy has no ascription, but Mlle d’Alverny assigned it to Achard by matching passages with quotations from Achard’s De trinitate in John of Cornwall’s Eulogium ad Alexandrum III, cc. 14–15. Quotations from the same work, cited as Anselm ‘in libro de unitate diuine essencie et pluralitate creaturarum’, appear in Iohannes de Ripa’s Commentary (1357) on the Lombard’s Sentences (A. Combes, Un inédit de saint Anselme? Le traité De unitate diuinae essentiae et pluralitate creaturarum, Études de philosophie médiévale 34 (1944), 27–50).

Sources

• Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 89 Scaff. V fols. 177r–182v, 187r [part 1], 187r–v, 184r–188r [part 2] (AD 1352) (misbound).

Attested Copies

• Bridlington, seen by Leland: ‘Achardi liber de trinitate’ (A5. 4).
• Canterbury, St Augustine’s, ‘Acuinus de unitate ⟨Dei⟩ et pluralitate creaturarum’ (BA1. 1487g).