Henry of Avranches: De generacione et corrupcione

Abstract

Henry of Avranches (d. 1260) was an Anglo-Norman itinerant poet and Franciscan cleric, described as one of the major Latin poets of the Middle Ages. He versified on many unlikely topics, including his Latin version of Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione in dactylic hexameter. This is a first edition, with translation, of this difficult work, which exists in a single exemplar, Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.78.