Adam Scotus
(Or THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN).
A theologian and Church historian of the latter part of the twelfth century. He was born either in Scotland or England, and joined the newly-founded order of Saint Norbert. It is also believed that he became Abbot and Bishop of Candida Casa, or Whithorn in Scotland, and died after 1180. His works consist of “Sermones” (P. L., CXCVIII, 91-440); “Liber de Ordine, Habitu et Professione Canonicorum Ordinis Prsemonstratensis” (Ibid., CXCVIII, 439-610), a work which is sometimes entitled the “Commentary on the Rule of St. Augustine”; “De Tripartito Tabernaculo” (CXCVIII, 609-792); “De Triplici Genere Contemplationis” (CXCVIII, 791-842); “Soliloquiorum de Instructione animae libri duo” (CXCVIII, 841-872). He was one of the most appreciated mystical authors of the Middle Ages; both in style and matter his works show unusual sweetness and spirituality. He is also known as Adam Anglicus and Anglo-Scotus.
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Dict. of Nat. Biogr., s.v.; WRIGHT, Biogr. Brit. Litt. (1846) II, 322; BOURGAIN, La chaire française au XII siècle (Paris, 1879), 135-136; JÉROME;, in Dict. de théol, cath., s.v.
THOMAS WALSH
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Adam, Scotus
(also called ADAMUS ANGLICUS), a Prnemonstratensian of the 12th century, was born in Scotland. About the year 1150 he entered the monastery of St. Andrew in Scotland, and in order to become better fitted for asceticism he spent some time at the monastery in Premontre, in the diocese of Laon. Having returned to Scotland, he was made abbot and bishop of Casa Candida (Witherne), in Galloway. The time of his death cannot exactly be given. He wrote, Liber de Ordine, Habitu et Professione Prcemonstratensium (14 sermons): De Tripartito Tabernaculo (part 3): De Triplici Genere Contemplationis. These works were printed in 1578. An enlarged edition, containing besides forty-seven sermons and two books, entitled Soliloquia de Instructiobne Ainimae, was published by Godefr. Ghiselbertus, at Antwerp, in 1659. A complete edition of his works is given by Migne, in Patrol. Lat. 118. See Schenid, in Wetzer u. Welte’s Kirchenlexikon, s.v. (B.P.)