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De divina praedestinatione (John Scottus Eriugena)
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[ed.] [tr.] Mainoldi, Ernesto Sergio, Giovanni Scoto Eriugena: De praedestinatione liber. Dialettica e teologia all’apogeo della rinascenza carolingia, Per verba, 18, Firenza: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003.
comments: Critical edition, with introduction, translation (into Italian) and lexical index.
[ed.] Madec, Goulven, Iohannes Scottus Eriugena: De diuina praedestinatione, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 50, Turnhout: Brepols, 1978. xix + 278 pp.
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul, and Heinrich Joseph Floss [ed.] (eds), Saeculum IX, annus 872: Joannis Scoti opera quae supersunt omnia, Patrologia Latina, 122, Paris, 1865.
[ed.] Mauguin, Gilbert, Veterum auctorum, qui IX. saeculo de praedestinatione et gratia scripserunt opera et fragmenta, Paris, 1650.
Vol. 1, 103 ff
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Epistolae Karolini aevi, tomus III, MGH Epistolae in quarto, 5, Berlin: Weidmann, 1899.
Dmgh.de: <link>
630–631 Praefatio/dedication only.
Secondary sources (select)
Mainoldi, Ernesto Sergio, “Eriugena’s intervention in the debate on predestination”, in: Adrian Guiu (ed.), A companion to John Scottus Eriugena, 86, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019. 241–266.
Lapidge, Michael, and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature, 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Ancillary Publications, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1985.
[id. 695.]
Madec, Goulve, “L’Augustinisme de Jean Scot dans le De praedestinatione”, in: René Roques (ed.), Jean Scot Érigène et l’histoire de la philosophie: Laon 7–12 Juillet 1975, 561, Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1977. 183–190.
Kenney, James F., “Chapter VI: The expansion of Irish Christianity”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 486–621.
[id. 381.]
