Andrew Melville and the Revolt against Aristotle in Scotland

1 ' Statuimus et ordinamus quaedam voluniina ordinaria, et quaedam extraordinaria, in quibus promovendi habent informari et examinari.Ordinaria vero audienda sant haeo: primo scilicet, in veteri arte, liber Universalium Porphyrii, liber Praedicamentorum Aristotelis, duo libri Peri Hermenias eiusdem.In nova logica, duo libri prioruai [Analyticonunj duo posteriorum, quatuor ad minus Topicorum, ncilicet primus, aecunduH, sextuH, et octavus, et duo Elenchoram.In Phisica, octo libri PhiHicorum, tres de coelo et de mundo.duo de generations et corrnptlone, trex libri de AnimA, etiani de sensu et sentwto, de memoria et reminibcentiu, de somno et vigiliA, et septeni libri metaphUicae.' Item, Audiantur libri extraordinarii, in toto vel in parte, ubi facultas mature dispensabit, ui flat defectus : scilicet in logicA, textus Petri Hispani, cam syncathegorematibus; tractatua de distributionibuB,liber g.po.sex principiomm.In phisica,tres libri metheorum, tractatus de sphera, sine dispensatione ; sex libri ethicorum, si lepantur; perspectiva; algoriamus ; et principia geometriae, si legantur; etut stadium iuvenum, de bono in melius tuque in flnem, optimum laudabiliter sascipiat incrementum, Statuimus et ordinamus, quod vetus am legatur per sex septimanas, priorum per tres, posteriorum per tres.Topicorum et Elenchoram per totidem continue perlegantur; in phusicu octo libri phisiooruni per duos menses; de generatione, et de coelo et mundo, per quatuor septimanax; de anima et parva natuxalia per sex •eptimanas; et libri metaphysicae per totidem: tempos autem eitraordinariomm eommittit facultas diacretioni legentium.'-StatutaFacuJtatU Artium Stadii Olasguensis, in Evidence taken by the Commission of 1826, ii.286.For Aberdeen of.Bp.Elphinstone's oharter in vol.iv. of the Evidence (pp.186-9), or in Fasti Aberdonmses (pp.53-64).Cf. especially the sentence,' Sexta, alter Magister Artium, pro paerorum et iuvenum informatione, in grematicalibus et illius soientiae prim is rudimentis in dicto Collegio inKtitui debeat.'The date of this charter is 1505, but teaching seems to have begun about ten years earlier, and this special provision U probably the fruit of the experience thus gained.The only book in the Olasgow list that requires identification is the Tractatatu* de Distributionibvg.Professor Davidson, of Aberdeen, suggested that it might be connected with the seventh tractate

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• Conformity in Conscience

  Open Access•John D Ford•The Journal of Ecclesiastical…•1995

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