The lost works of Luis de León: (2) Expositio in Genesim 1
1980; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 57; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/1475382802000357199
ISSN1469-3550
Autores Tópico(s)Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeBSS Subject Index: BIBLE/BIBLIAEXPOSITIO IN GENESIM [L. DE LEÓN]LEÓN, FRAY LUIS DE (1527–1591)PHILOSOPHYRELIGION [AS LITERARY, CULTURAL & IDEOLOGICAL THEME]SALAMANCA — SPAIN — HISTORY, LITERATURE, CULTURE & SOCIETYUNIVERSITIES — SPAIN Notes 1. See my previous article ‘The lost works of Luis de León: (1) De simonia’, BHS, LVII (1980), 95–102. 2. Those for 1589–90 and 1590–91 are in very poor condition, bound in reverse order, but awaiting restoration. The folios are unnumbered. For their significance, see the above-mentioned article, 95. 3. See A. F. G. Bell, Luis de León (Oxford 1925), 195–99. 4. See J. Goñi Gaztambide, ‘Catálogo de los manuscritos teológicos de la Catedral de Pamplona’, Revista Española de Teología, 18 (1958), 61–85. My quotations from the MS follow the original spelling, except that the contractions have been resolved. 5. Juan Alonso de Curiel was Fray Luis's successor in the Prime Chair of Bible. 6. Fray Luis de León, teólogo (Madrid 1950), 77. 7. More readily available in Opera, ed. M. Gutiérrez, 7 vols. (Salamanca 1891–95), VII, 339–59; and studied by S. Múñoz Iglesias, ‘Una opinión de Fr. Luis de León sobre la cronología de la Pascua’, Estudios Bíblicos, III ( 1944), 79–96. 8. For information about such copies, see V. Beltrán de Heredia, ‘Hacia un inventario analítico de manuscritos teológicos de la escuela salmantina, siglos XV–XVII, conservados en España y en el extranjero’, Revista Española de Teología, 3 (1943), 59–88. 9. In Obras de San Agustín, ed. Balbino Martín, BAC, 2nd edn (Madrid 1969), XV, 470–1033. For Oleaster, see The Cambridge History of the Bible, III, ed. S. L. Greenslade (Cambridge 1963), 92. 10. One of the attacks made against the three Salamanca hebraists (Fray Luis, Grajal and Martínez) referred to allegorizing, and Fray Luis may here be continuing the polemic of the 1572 trial, as he does on so many occasions after his vindication. 11. I shall restrict information about the authors quoted by Fray Luis to those of particular interest or to those who do not appear in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Paul of Burgos, referred to as ‘Burgensis’ normally, was a convert from Judaism, whose Additiones to the Postillae of Nicholas of Lira became part of the Glossa ordinaria. See CHB, III, 79, 126; B. Smalley, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Notre Dame 1964), 56, 178. 12. Lipoman's Catena in Genesim appeared Paris, 1546 (Lippomanus). ‘Augustinus Eugubinus’ is Augustinus Steuch, author of a number of Biblical works, including Cosmopoeia, an exposition of Genesis 1–3 (Lyon 1535). 13. Fray Luis refers to Alfonso de Madrigal (1400?–55), El Tostado, by his Latin title as bishop of Ávila, ‘Abulensis’. 14. Cf. an echo of this in Donne, ‘In paradise, the fruits were ripe, the first minute, and in heaven it is alwaies Autumne, his mercies are ever in their maturity’; in John Donne: Selected Prose, ed. H. Gardner and T. Healey (Oxford 1967), 244. 15. Nicholas of Lira (Lyranus), d. 1349, made comprehensive use of Rabbinical sources, particularly Rashi (Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes); see the many references in Smalley, op. cit., and CHB, II, ed. G. W. H. Lampe (Cambridge 1969), 218, 261. 16. One looks in vain for any indication that Fray Luis had assimilated any Copernican ideas, as had his contemporary and fellow-Augustinian Diego de Zúñiga, in In Job Commentaria (Toledo 1584) and Philosophia prima pars (Toledo 1597); now definitively identified as the same Zúñiga who witnessed against Fray Luis in his trial, by I. Aramburu Cendoya, in ‘Fr. Diego de Zúñiga, O.S.A., 1536-c. 1599: biografía y nuevos escritos’, Archivo Agustiniano, LV (1961), 51–103, 329–84. 17. Fray Luis's views on free will are expounded in another unpublished set of lectures. De libero arbitrio, given in 1571–72, and found in ff. 517r–32v of MS 1984 of the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, Coimbra. 18. De los nombres de Cristo, ed. F. de Onís (Madrid 1948), III, 17. One wonders from a passage like this whether Biblical exegesis of this kind may not have had some influence on conceptismo, in that it establishes parallels and links between objects belonging to quite distinct spheres. 19. Cf. De Genesi ad litleram, IV. 8–12. 20. On Ambrosius Catharinus, a Dominican at Trent, who was an opponent of Cajetan, see CHB, III, 92, 202, 206–07, 237. 21. Fray Luis, of course, shows no awareness of the kind of critical approach to Genesis which sees this as a second Creation story coming from a different source from the first. 22. De Genesi ad litteram, VIII. 1–7. 23. See note 10. 24. Fray Luis cites him as ‘Mois. Barsepha’. He is referring to De paradiso commentarius; scriptus ante annos prope septingentos à Mose Bar-Cepha and translated by Andreas Masius (Antwerp 1569). Masius (Maes), who was a Syriac scholar, and who had begun to cast doubt on the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch in his commentary on Joshua ( 1574), explains in his preface how he came to translate this work during a period of convalescence. Barcepha himself was apparently a Syrian bishop who died in 914. 25. Joannes Goropius Becanus (‘Goropius de Becani’ in the MS), author of a number of works, e.g. Opera hactenus inedita (Antwerp 1580), on a variety of subjects. 26. This view is also expressed by Fray Luis in La Perfecta Casada: see Obras completas castellanas, ed. F. García, BAC, 4th edn (Madrid 1957), I, 262–65; and implied in Job, Obras, II, 496–97; cf. De Genesi ad litteram, VIII. 8. 27. As in De Genesi ad litteram, IX. 12, 14. 28. See, for example, his Tractatus de sensibus sacrae scripturae, published by O. García de la Fuente, in ‘Un tratado inédito y desconocido de Fr. Luis de León’, La Ciudad de Dios, 170 (1957), 258–334. 29. His Christocentricity has been studied by S. Folgado, ‘Cristocentrismo teológico en Fr. Luis de León’, La Ciudad de Dios, 180 (1967), 350–81, 520–51. 30. For these lectures, see Opera, VII, 137–82. 31. Such as Andrew of St Victor, in Smalley, op. cit., 112–95. 32. This view is reflected in K. Kottman, Law and Apocalypse (The Hague 1972); and C. Noreña, Studies in Spanish Renaissance Thought (The Hague 1975), Chap. 3. 33. The most accessible study of Cabbalism is in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd edn (New York 1961), 119–286.
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