Adam Burley
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Adam Burley

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(1307 - 1311)
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Adam Burley (died 1327/8) was a philosopher educated at University College, Oxford.

Adam is responsible for two questions commentaries, preserved uniquely in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 668*/645:

  • Quaestiones I–II de Anima, on the De anima of Aristotle;
  • Quaestiones de Sex principiis, on the Liber sex principiorum, a medieval expansion of the Categories.

His work appears in the manuscript with the work of other Oxford scholars, including Walter Burley, Richard Campsall, and Peter Bradele.