Table Of ContentRAMUS AND TALON
INVENTORY
A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF PETER RAMUS
(1515-1572) AND OF OMER TALON (m. 1510-1562)
IN THEIR ORIGINAL AND IN THEIR VARIOUSLY ALTERED FORMS
WITH RELATED MATERIAL:
1. THE RAMIST CONTROVERSIES: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
2. AGRICOLA CHECK LIST: A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF
SOME PRINTED EDITIONS AND PRINTED COMPENDIA
OF RUDOLPH AGRICOLA'S DIALECTICAL INVENTION
(DE INVENTIONE DIALECTICA)
By
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
This titan toil begot the Ramist
clan — no, rather
This titan toil begot Logic again.
Tantae molis erat Rameum condere
gentem: imo,
Tantae molis erat Logicorum con-
dere gentem.
— Freige, Lije of Ramus
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1958
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RAMUS AND TALON
INVENTORY
A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF PETER RAMUS
(1515-1572) AND OF OMER TALON (cc. 1510-1562)
IN THEIR ORIGINAL AND IN THEIR VARIOUSLY ALTERED FORMS
WITH RELATED MATERIAL:
1. THE RAMIST CONTROVERSIES: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
2. AGRICOLA CHECK LIST: A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF
SOME PRINTED EDITIONS AND PRINTED COMPENDIA
OF RUDOLPH AGRICOLA'S DIALECTICAL INVENTION
(DE INVENTIONE DIALECTICA)
By
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
This titan toil begot the Ramist
clan — no, rather
This titan toil begot Logic again.
Tantae molis erat Rameum condere
gentem: imo,
Tantae molis erat Logicorum con-
dere gentem.
— Freige, Life of Ramus
THE FOLCROFT PRESS, INC.
FOLCROFT, PA.
First Published 1958
Reprinted 1969
RAMUS AND TALON
INVENTORY
A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF PETER RAMUS
(1515-1572) AND OF OMER TALON (ca. 1510-1562)
IN THEIR ORIGINAL AND IN THEIR VARIOUSLY ALTERED FORMS
WITH RELATED MATERIAL:
1. THE RAMIST CONTROVERSIES: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
2. AGRICOLA CHECK LIST: A SHORT-TITLE INVENTORY OF
SOME PRINTED EDITIONS AND PRINTED COMPENDIA
OF RUDOLPH AGRICOLA'S DIALECTICAL INVENTION
(DE INVENTI0NE DIALECTIC A)
By
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
This titan toil begot the Ramist
clan — no, rather
This titan toil begot Logic again.
Tantae molis erat Rameum condere
gentem: imo,
Tantae molis erat Logicorum con-
dere gentem.
— Freige, Life of Ramus
DARBY BOOKS
DAR1JY, PA.
First Published 1958
Reprinted 1969
C O N T E N TS
Page
INTRODUCTION ί1^
SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS t25]
INVENTORY CONTENTS [37]
INVENTORY ENTRIES U+6]
m
THE RAMIST CONTROVERSIES
I. The Gouveia-Raraus Aristotelian Quarrel
II. The Perion Attack on Ramus' Anti-
Aristotelianism and Anti-Ciceronianism [1+95]
III. The Ramus-Galland Curriculum Dispute,
with Commentary by Rabelais [1+96]
IV. The Charpentier-Ossat Controversy on Method [1+98]
V. The Ramus-Turn^be Controversy on Dialectic
and Fate [500]
VI. The Ramus-Charpentier Litigation over Mathe
matics and the "Prippelipique" Literature [500]
VII. The Riolan Critique of Ramus [501+]
VIII. The Ramus-Schegk Dispute on Dialectic and
Method [506]
IX. The Digby-Teraple-Piscator-Richard Harvey
Controversy on Method [506]
X. The Ramists, Anti-Ramists, and Syncretists
Whose Works Figure in the Ramist Contro-
versies and in Other Ramist Literature [510]
AGRICOIA CHECK LIST [53lj.]
I L L U S T R A T I O NS
P. Rami . . . Dialecticae libri duo (1572)
[title-page of copy in Trinity College
Library, Dublin] Facing p. [192]
Rodolphi Agricolae . .. De inventione
dialectica libri tres [title-page
of Jean de Bomont's copy in the
Biblioth&que Nationale, Paris] Pacing p. [51+2]
FOREWORD
The present book, while it forma an Integral
unit of its own, is published conjointly with the
author's Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue,
which in great part depends on this documentary
study, putting to further use the documentation here
provided and situating the items in the present work
in their larger historical context. I wish to ac-
knowledge for the present book the same debts of
gratitude which are noted in the Foreword to Ramus,
iiethod, and the Decay of Dialogue and which it would
be only tedious to repeat here, although my special
indebtedness to the staffs of many libraries, par-
ticularly in iiurope, and to the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, which made it possible for me to
visit all these libraries, is here rather spectacularly
evident.
Walter J. Ong, 3.J.
St. Louis University
September 1, 1956
