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DNB

 * Article title: Adam Scotus
 * Author: Archer, Thomas Andrew
 * LEAD: ADAM Scotus, or Anglicus (fl. 1180), was a theological writer. The very little that can be ascertained as to his life is almost entirely dependent upon incidental allusions contained in his writings.
 * LEAD: ADAM Scotus, or Anglicus (fl. 1180), was a theological writer. The very little that can be ascertained as to his life is almost entirely dependent upon incidental allusions contained in his writings.
 * LEAD: ADAM Scotus, or Anglicus (fl. 1180), was a theological writer. The very little that can be ascertained as to his life is almost entirely dependent upon incidental allusions contained in his writings.

General

 * Migne's Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, cxcviii., which contains all Adam's writings that have as yet been published under his name
 * Mackenzie's Writers of the Scotch Nation, i. 141–5
 * Oudin De Scriptor. Eccles. ii. 1544–7
 * A. Miræi Chronicon Ord. Præmonstr. ap. Kuen's Collectio Scriptorum. vi. 36, 38, and sub anno 1518
 * B. Pez' Thesaurus Anecdot. pt. ii. 335–72
 * Fabricius' Biblioth. Lat. i. 11
 * Cave's Scriptores Ecclesiæ, ii. 234
 * For Christian, bishop of Candida Casa, and his suspension in 1177, see Roger Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), ii. 135, &c.

Cites

 * Panzer, Annal. Typogr. viii. 49
 * Bibliotheca Telleriana, 43
 * Possevinus, Apparatus Sacer, i. 6
 * De Trip. Tab. Proœm. I. c. iii
 * Liber Sanctæ Mariæ de Calchou and Liber de Melros, i. 39, 43, &c.
 * Proœm. I. c. 8
 * cf. Miræus ap. Kuen, vi. 36
 * Gordon's Ecclesiastical Chronicle, iii. 75
 * scripsit c. 1222

Works

 * The national affix, ‘Scotus,’ does not apparently occur in the earliest edition of this writer's works—that published by Ægidius Gourmont at Paris in 1518. This folio (which may be looked upon as containing all of this author's works, of whose genuineness there can be absolutely no doubt at all) consisted, according to Panzer's account, of a series of ‘xxiv.’ sermons and two treatises entitled respectively ‘Liber de tripartito Tabernaculo’ and ‘Liber de triplici genere Contemplationis;’ and it is ascribed not to Adam Scotus, but to ‘Brother Adam of the Præmonstratensian order.’ It is almost certain that the xxiv. here must be a misprint for xiv., and that these sermons in reality represent the treatise entitled ‘De Ordine’ of the next edition.
 * Ghiselbert makes mention of a lost work written by our Adam entitled ‘De dulcedine Dei,’ and also of a volume of letters. Pez believed himself to have traced the former work in a fifteenth-century catalogue of ‘Codices Tegernseenses,’ and assigns a set of Latin verses entitled ‘Summula’ to the same author, but on very insufficient grounds.
 * (tr. comment - there is much discussion in the DNB about attribution of works to this author, as the history is 'confused' by multiple 'use names')