Spanish Logicians at the University of Paris (16th Century)

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About Jerónimo Pardo

Region Western philosophy, Spanish philosophy
Era Early modern philosophy, Renaissance philosophy
Name Jerónimo Pardo
Birth Date circa 1460
Death Date 1502 or 1505
Birth Place Province of Burgos, Castile
School Tradition Scholasticism, Nominalism
Alma Mater University of Paris
Main Interests Logic, Theology

Jerónimo Pardo was a notable Spanish logician and theologian. He was born in the province of Burgos1 and is known to have arrived in Paris at the end of the fifteenth century. He studied and taught at the College of Montaigu and was possibly Mair’s teacher2. Pardo was a fellow of the Sorbonne but never became a Doctor of Theology. He taught theology in Melun until his death, which occurred in 1502 according to Muñoz Delgado and Villoslada, or 1505 according to Elie and Fraile3.

Pardo wrote a manual on logic and one on natural philosophy, which he never completed. García Villoslada considers that the latter is in fact the Introductiones phisicales artium Hieronimo Pardo ad totam naturalem philosophiam, the manuscript of which is preserved in the Columbine Library of Seville (n. 3351)4.

The only work published by Pardo was Medulla Dyalectices. The first edition was published by Pardo in Paris in 1500, with a foreword by his brother Miguel. The work was republished in Paris by John Mair and Jacobo Ortiz in 1505, after Jerónimo’s death5.

Includes an index and corrections made by Ortiz as stated in the foreword, reproduced here:

Medulla Dialectices edita a perspicacissimo artium praeceptor Hieronymo Pardo. Ferme graviores difficultates logicas acutissimae dissolvens, omnibus dialectice studiosis plurimum accommoda, de novo correcta et emendata cum tabula notabilium et propositionum disputatarum iuxta materiam et ordinem foliorum et capitulorum, per honorandos magistros: magistrum Iohannem Maioris in Sacra Theologia baccalarium, necnon per acutissimi ingenii virum magistrum Iacobum Ortiz, quia postremo ipsam cum augmento castigavit eique tabulam supradictam apposuit.

This is the index of the Medulla Dyalectices:

Works

Notes

  1. On the life and work of Jerónimo Pardo see García Villoslada 1938, pp. 379-380; Muñoz Deldado 1970, pp. 213-227. 

  2. Cf. Beuchot 1976, pp. 213-230; Elie 1950-1951, p. 205; Guerlac 1979, p. 20; Prantl 1955, p. 247; Torrance 1969, pp. 531-576. However, García Villoslada observes that Mair himself in his De Infinito refers to Pardo not as a teacher but as a friend. Cf. García Villoslada 1938, p. 131, n. 7. 

  3. Cf. Muñoz Delgado 1970, p. 213; Garcia Villoslada 1938, p. 380; Elie 1950-1951, p. 206; Fraile 1971, p. 322. 

  4. Cf. García Villoslada 1938, p. 380. 

  5. Note: The content of this article up to this point, with very few changes, was taken from: Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe (1996). The Doctrine of Descent in Jeronimo Pardo. Meaning, Inference, Truth.