Medieval Latin reception

Western Europe · 9th-15th c.

John Scottus Eriugena

Carolingian scholar whose translations of Dionysius and whose own Periphyseon are the main channel of Greek Neoplatonism into the early medieval Latin West.

Periphyseon — Migne, 1853 not yet ingested
Translations of Dionysius — Migne, 1853 not yet ingested

Anonymous (Liber de causis)

The Latin Liber de causis, Gerard of Cremona's translation of the Kalam, read throughout the Middle Ages as an independent Aristotelian work until Aquinas identified its Proclan source.

Liber de causis — Bardenhewer, 1882 text

Albert the Great

Dominican polymath whose De causis et processu universitatis reworks the Liber de causis at length.

De causis et processu universitatis — Borgnet, 1891 not yet ingested

Thomas Aquinas

Identifies the Liber de causis as an excerpt from Proclus's Elements (via Moerbeke's new translation) in his own commentary, the hinge of the pilot's central thread.

Super Librum de causis — Parma, 1852-1873 text
De substantiis separatis — Leonine, not yet ingested
Summa Theologiae Ia q.44-45 — Leonine, not yet ingested

William of Moerbeke

Dominican translator whose 1268 Latin version of Proclus's Elements is the text Aquinas actually read; no public-domain edition is on the bench yet (ruling 6).

Elementatio theologica (Latin translation of Proclus's Elements) — , 1268 not yet ingested

Berthold of Moosburg

Dominican commentator on Moerbeke's Elementatio theologica; omitted until a PD edition exists.

Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli — , not yet ingested

Meister Eckhart

German Dominican whose Latin works draw on the Liber de causis and Proclan participation metaphysics.

Latin works (selected) — Pfeiffer, 1857 not yet ingested

Nicholas of Cusa

Cardinal and philosopher whose De docta ignorantia and De li non aliud extend Dionysian and Proclan negative theology.

De docta ignorantia — Faber Stapulensis, 1514 not yet ingested
De li non aliud — , 1565 not yet ingested