MEDIEVAL PRINCIPIA ON PETER LOMBARD'S SENTENCES BY THEOLOGIANS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GENRE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES.

In the paper, I collected the basic information about principia on Lombard' s Sentences from the University of Cracow in the fifteenth century scattered in the different locations. Delivering the principium was an academic ceremony which gathered the university community around the bachelor. The student was obliged to present the speech, which started with the invocation of God' s grace, continued with the protestatio, eulogy based on the biblical verse, solution of the theological question and was crowned by the thanksgiving. We are currently aware of seventeen excerpts from Cracow scholars: some of them have already been thoroughly studied, but the majority are still waiting in the manuscripts for the critical edition. This paper collected the most important information about the preserved texts, their location in the manuscripts and the state of editions. In this way, the paper gives the tools to continue and to deepen future investigations on the principia in fifteenth-century Cracow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]