Uno snodo europeo nel XIII secolo: philosophia e manoscritti tra Pisa e Parigi

The circulation of philosophical texts in Latin Europe between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries does not involve only the universities. The rising and diffusion of the mendicant orders and the establishment of their system of studia and studia generalia largely contributed to enlarge the presence of manuscripts with philosophical contents in the major cities of the time. The Cathariniana library in Pisa, which collects some of the manuscripts of the ancient library of the Dominican convent of the city, offers an interesting example of the texts that were available in this kind of institution. Throughout a study of the philosophical manuscripts of this library, this contribution offers a first overview of the cultural evolution of the philosophical knowledge of the Dominican convent of Pisa and argues the relevance of the connection with the Parisian intellectual milieu. The presence of manuscripts directly connected with the university and its activities suggests that several among the lectores who taught in Pisa not only had an education in Paris but also remained linked with the philosophical and theological debates which rose in the university between thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.