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Today (8. November) is the feast day of the scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus, OFM (Bl.; d. 1308). Ordained priest at Northampton in 1291 and trained at Oxford, he lectured at Paris and, from 1307, at Köln. His cult was confirmed in 1993 at the level of Beatus. The Subtle Doctor now reposes in a modern sarcophagus in Köln's thirteenth-century Minoritenkirche Mariae Empfängnis (Franciscan Church of the Immaculate Conception), formerly a church for foreign teachers and students. His entry in the _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ is here:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/
Some period-pertinent images of Bl. John Duns Scotus:
a) as depicted on the opening pages of text of each volume of a two-volume thirteenth- or fourteenth-century copy, from Genoa, of his commentaries on the _Sententiae_ of Peter Lombard (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, mss. 882, 883):
1) ms. 882, fol. 5r: http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht17/IRHT_11877-p.jpg
2) ms. 883, fol. 1r: http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht17/IRHT_11881-p.jpg
b) as depicted at the outset of an early fourteenth-century copy, of East Anglian origin, of his commentaries on the _Sententiae_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 3061, fol. 1r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525038815/f9.item.zoom
c) as depicted at the outset of of an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1320) of his _Quodlibet_ (Munich, BSB, Clm 8717, fols. 61r-100r, at fol. 61r):
http://faculty.cua.edu/hoffmann/scotus-bibliography.htm
d) as depicted by Benozzo Gozzoli in his mid-fifteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1450 and 1452) in the chiesa di San Francesco in Montefalco (PG) in Umbria:
http://tinyurl.com/ofe2g99
e) as depicted at the outset of a later fifteenth-century copy (1470s?) of a commentary of his on Book One of the _Sententiae_ (Rovigo, Biblioteca dell'Accademia dei Concordi, Biblioteca Silvestriana cod. 215, fol. 1r):
http://tinyurl.com/pewxzww
f) as depicted by Carlo Crivelli in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (1471?; from his now dismembered Montefiore altarpiece) in the Polo Museale di San Francesco at Montefiore dell'Aso (AP) in the Marche:
http://tinyurl.com/nopeqsd
g) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1476) variously attributed to Joos van Gent (Justus of Ghent, etc., etc.) or to Pedro Berruguete in the Galleria nazionale delle Marche in the ducal palace at Urbino:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bfljq
On display (lower right) on the east wall of Federico da Montefeltro's _studiolo_:
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kirkbride/detail/us_2_east_wall_men.html
h) as depicted by Nardo Rapicano at the outset of a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1480), of Neapolitan origin, of a commentary of his on Book Two of the _Sententiae_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 3063, fol. 1r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8446954p/f11.item.zoom
i) as depicted (left margin at top) in a hand-colored woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. CCXXIr):
http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/6th_age/right_page/124%20%28Folio%20CCXXIr%29.pdf
j) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Albertus Magnus) by Amico Aspertini in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (1521) in the Pinacoteca civica of Como:
http://tinyurl.com/pjkvvvs
Best,
John Dillon
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