Abstract
This article traces back the history of a collection of manuscript academic course-notes taken by a German student at the end of the sixteenth century and today preserved at the Research Library of Gotha (Thuringien, Germany). It focuses, in particular, on two of them, which transmit texts dictated in Paris: they testify to the large circulation of academic doctrines through the practice of the copy of the course-notes by students.
Highlights
The Gotha Research library, founded in 1647 by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ernst I, and situated in the Friedenstein Castle (Thuringien, Germany), holds, among the others, a unique collection of manuscript sources from the time
This article traces back the history of a collection of manuscript academic course-notes taken by a German student at the end of the sixteenth century and today preserved at the Research Library of Gotha (Thuringien, Germany)
Just like the other Jesuit manuscript courses-notes preserved in Gotha, these three manuscripts are almost unknown to scholars and to specialized literature
Summary
The Gotha Research library, founded in 1647 by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ernst I, and situated in the Friedenstein Castle (Thuringien, Germany), holds, among the others, a unique collection of manuscript sources from the time. From Paris to Gotha family within the Gerhard collection: they all focus on theology and are, mostly, courses-notes of different parts of the Summa theologiae by Thomas Aquinas.5
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