Franciscan Authors
Franciscan Authors

Adam Goddamus (Adam Wodeham/Adam de Vodronio/Adam Woodham/Adam Godham, ca. 1298-1358, Babwell, England)

Adam Goddamus (Adam Wodeham/Adam de Vodronio/Adam Woodham/Adam Godham, ca. 1298-1358, Babwell, England) OM. English theologian and philosopher, and student of Ockham. Born in the neighbourhood of Southampton. Obtained his first education in logic, philosophy and theology in the London friary (possibly all the way up to the lectorate) between 1320 and 1324. Subsequently, between 1325 and 1329, he taught and studied philosophy and theology at the Franciscan studium in Oxford. Wodeham performed his Sentences lectures pro exercitio in the custodial school of Norwich, and also in the studium of London (on book 3 of the Sentences) in the late 1320s/early 1330s, prior to his acceptance in the Oxford degree program. Wodeham completed his Sentences lectures pro gradu at Oxford in 1333 of 1334, after which, as a baccalaureus sententiarum and baccalaureus formatus, he finished the necessary disputations to become master of theology. He became regent master of the Franciscan Oxford studium by 1338/1339. Due to his academic trajectory, Wodeham's Sentences commentary exists in three redactions. In the course of these, he formulated his own position towards Scotus and Ockham. Wodeham had been something of an assistant/apprentice to Ockham, during his stint in London, when Ockham was teaching logic and physics there. Wodeham's commentary circulated widely during the late medieval period (it was also abbreviated, for instance by Henry Totting of Oyta, in 1375 (in Prague or Paris?). He also wrote a Prologus to Ockham's Summa Logicae (1324/28), and questions concerning the quantity of the continuum. In his Tractatus de Indivisibilibus he argued against the Atomists. In June 1339, just after he had reached the magisterium theologiae , he seems to have visited Basel, possibly on the way back from the Franciscan general chapter in Italy, to sort out some issues regarding the Franciscan mystic Giacomo da Porta.

Works

  • In I-IV Sent .: For manuscripts of the several surviving redactions, see esp. Doucet, AFH 47 (1954), 93-4 and Sharpe, Handlist , 22-23. We have the following manuscripts: Lectura II, MS Cambridge, Gonville and Caius college 81/674 (14th cent.), ff. 105r-250v

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  • Lectura III, MSS Brugge, Stadsbibl. 172 ff. 1r-26r [Book IV]

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  • Erfurt, Wissenschaftl. Bibl. der Stadt Amplon. F.133 [15th cent.) ff 1r-133v [Book I]

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  • Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. B.VII 1279

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  • Paris, Bibl. Maz. 915 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-230v [I-IV]

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  • Paris, BN, Lat. 15892 (14th cent.)

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  • Paris, Bibl. Univ. 193 (15th cent.)

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  • Vat.Lat. 955 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-208v

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  • Tarragona, Bibl. de la Catedral 7. Parts have received critical editorial attention: Lectura secunda in librum primum Sententiarum , ed. R. Wood & G. Gál, 3 Vols. (St. Bonaventure, New York, 1991) [Vol. I: Prologus & Distinctio 1

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  • Vol. II: Distinctiones 2-7

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  • Vol. III: Distinctiones 8-26]. See also: Adam de Wodeham: `The objects of knowledge (Lectura secunda 1.1)' in: The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts , ed. Robert Pasnau, 3 Vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002) III. Lectura Tertia : O. Grassi, `La conoscenza di Dio nel commento alle Sentenze di Adam Wodeham', Medioevo, 8 (1982), 43-136 (89-136) [=Extracts from the Prologue, qq. 1-2 and I, q. 1]

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  • M. Adams & R. Wood, `Is to will it as bad as to do it?', Franciscan Studies , 41 (1981), 5-60 (35-60) [=IV, q. 10]

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  • Henricus de Oyta, Adae Wodeham Lecturae Sententiarum Versio Abbreviata :Toulouse, Bibl. Municip. 246

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  • Kraków, Bibl. Jagiellonska 1176 ff. 1r-281v

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  • Paris, BN fonds latin 15892 (? Check!)

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  • Paris, Bibl. de l’Arsenal 514 (olim 551)

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  • Brugge, Stadsbibl. 162

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  • Rouen, Bibl. Municip. 581

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  • etc. This work, hence Henricus de Oyta, Adae Wodeham Lecturae Sententiarum Versio Abbreviata was issued in print by the Scottish theologian John Major/John Mair: Super Quattuor libros sententiarum: Abbreviatio Henrici Toting de Oyta (Paris, 1512). It amounts to a condensation of Wodeham's commentary on the Sentences by the (non-Franciscan) ecclectical and well-respected German theologian Henry of Oyta (Heinrich Totting von Oyta, ca. 1330 – 1397), who worked in Prague, Erfurt, Paris, and Vienna (also responsible for drawing up the the statutes of the University of Vienna in 1389, in collaboration with Henry of Langenstein).

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  • Quaestiones Variae Phil. Et Theol .:a.o. Basel Universitätsbibliothek F III 31 ff. 100-107r

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  • British Library, Harley 3243.

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  • Florence, Naz., Conv. Soppr. B. VII.1249 (14th cent.) ff. 132r-143v For an edition, see: Tractatus de Indivisibilibus , ed. Rega Wood (Dordrecht: Springer, 1988).

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  • Quaestio de Divisione et Compositione Continui contra Chatton , ed. J.E. Murdoch & E.A. Synan, `Two Questions on the Continuum', Franciscan Studies , 26 (1966), 212-288 (267-288). See for a French translation also: Jean Celeyrette & Edmond Mazet, ‘Adam Wodeham. Notice. Question sur la composition du continu’, in: De la théologie aux mathématiques. L’infini au XIVe siècle. Textes choisis et présentés par J. Biard & J. Celeyrette , Sagesses médiévales (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2005), 57-88.

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  • Determinationes XI : Check!

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  • Defensorium contra Impugnantes Fratrum Admissorum Confessiones : Check! [did not survive?]

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  • Comm. in Canticum Canticorum ? This work apparently did not survive.

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  • For much more information on his quaestiones and manuscript information on all his works, see the work of Courtenay, as well as the Adam Wodeham website, which also aims to present critical editions of all of Wodeham's works [http://www.bc.edu/sites/adamwodehamcriticaledition/ ]

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  • Tractatus de Indivisibilibus Tractatus de Indivisibilibus : Florence, Naz., Conv. Soppr. A.III. 508 (14th cent.) ff. 35r-147r

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