Le opere di Acardo di San Vittore († 1170/1171)

Abstract

The works of the Englishman Achard, abbot of Saint Victor from 1155-1160 and then bishop of Avranches, have been reconstituted in the last decades thanks to the research of Jean Châtillon and Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny. Three works have now been identified with certainty: the De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis, the De Trinitate and a collection of fifteen sermons. The paternity is uncertain of the Quaestiones, preserved in two manuscripts, Dijon 119, f. 204-216 and Paris, BnF, lat. 14807, which have not yet been the subject of a specific study. The nature and the literary genre of a series of fragments copied in two witnesses after the sermons XV-XIII and edited with them remains dubious. The manuscript tradition of the treatises is rather weak; only four witnesses are known of the De discretione. The De Trinitate has been identified thanks to the long citations from John of Cornwall and Johannes de Ripa, then edited after a single late witness (Padova, Bibl. Antoniana, 89 Scaff. V). The tradition of the sermons is richer and more complex.