Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 (chancellor of the University of Paris)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1363 - 1429
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
De Diversis Diaboli Temptationibus by Jean Gerson, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 110/ff. 13r-32r
Contents
This section contains a tract written by Jean Gerson, a French theologian and chancellor born in 1363. The text is about temptation and evil spirits.It is titled Tractatus Magistri Johannis Gersonis Cancellarii Parisiensis doctoris eximii de temptacionibus et sugestionibus et impulsibus maligni spiritus in the manuscript and starts on f. 13r with the words Ad nos sub dei manu humiliandos.It ends on f....
Dates:
15th century
De modo vivendi omnium fidelium by Jean Gerson, early 16th century
part
Identifier: MS 114/ff. 10r-18v
Contents
A work by the Franch scholar Jean Gerson (1363 - 1429), Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1395 and prominent personality during the Western Schism (1378 - 1417). ('On the way all the faithful should live' is divided in short chapters each addressed to a different category of people (for example, nobles, soldiers, husbands and wives, parents and children and so on) with specific advice for each. The original foliation of the manuscript begins here (partly followed by Catherine...
Dates:
early 16th century
Expositio super Magnificat, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 99/ff. 80v-92v
Contents
This part of the manuscript contains the text Expositio super Magnificat, a text about the canticle known as the Song of Mary, or simply as the Magnificat, for its first verse in Latin (Magnificat anima mea dominum). The authorship of the text is not clear: it has been attributed to Hugh of Saint Victor, to Jean Charlier de Gerson, and to John...
Dates:
15th century