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5.JohnDumbleton
JohnDumbletonwasbornca.1310,hewasanativeoftheDumbleton
villagecommunityinGloucestershire,withinthedioceseofWorcester.
HeismentionedasafellowofMertonCollege,Oxfordin1338.Along
withWilliamHeytesbury,hewasnamedasoneoftheoriginalfellow
ofQueen’sCollege,Oxfordin1340.uThismeans-asWeisheiplpoints
out-thatDumbletonhadcompletedhisregencyinartsbythatdate,
andthatheatleastintendedtostudytheologyandtotakeHolyOrders,
forthesewererequiredbythestatutesofQueen’s.”52Wiesheiplsaysthat
DumbletonreturnedtoMerton,whereheisagainmentionedinthere-
cordsfor1344-45.53uAlatefourteenthorearlyffteenth-centuryMSof
theSummaatPaduacontainsanoteattheendofthefrstpartdescribing
MasterJohnofDumbletonasanEnglishmanandaBachelorinSacred
Theology:ExplicitprimaparsSummemagistriJohannisdedulmentonanglici
bacculariisacretheologie.”54EdithSylla,ontheotherhand,claimsthat
uDumbletonwasafellowoftheSorbonneatParisprobablybetween
1344and1347”andinMertonagainin1347-1348.Asshesays:uone
manuscriptmentionsuMasterJohnDumbleton,one-timefellowofthe
Sorbonne,inhisSumma…”.Regrettably,shedoesnotgiveanyspecifc
references.55Sincewedonothaveanyclearinformationabouthisaca-
demiccareer,andtheonlysureinformationistheMerton’srecord56
wecanratherproposethehypothesizedclaimthatheleftOxfordfor
theologicalstudyattheSorbonnein1345andstayedthereuntilhis
death.Mostlikely,DumbletonsuccumbedtotheBlackDeathin1348
or1349.
JohnDumbletonistheauthorof:Compendiumsexconclusionum,Exposi-
tiocapituliquartiBradwardinisdeproportionibus,writtenin1332andSumma
logicaeetphilosophiaenaturalis,mostlikelywrittenjustbeforehisdeath,i.e.,
subtilisdoctorisJohannisdeCasaliDevelocitatemotusalterationisandQuaestioBlasiide
Parmadetactucorporumdurorum.
52J.A.Weisheipl,O.P.,ThePlaceofJohnDumbletonł,p.450.
53Seeibidem,n.60.
54Ibidem,n.61.
55SeeE.Sylla,uJohnDumbleton”[in:]uEcyclopediaofMedievalPhilosophy”,
Springer2011,p.608.
56SeeMertonCollegeRec.3676-7,[in:]A.B.Emden,BiographicalRegister,I,p.608.