Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carew, Robert

1367357Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09 — Carew, Robert1887Reginald Lane-Poole

CAREW or CARY, ROBERT, also called Cervinus (fl. 1325), schoolman, is stated to have been a doctor of divinity of Oxford, and to have held an eminent position as a teacher and philosopher. His works named are ‘Quæstiones in libros Posteriorum Aristotelis,’ besides the regular productions of a scholastic,—a commentary on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard, ‘Quæstiones ordinariæ,’ and expositions ‘super varios sacræ Scripturæ textus.’

Leland’s Comm. de Script. Brit. cccxviii. p. 319; Pits, De Angliæ Script. p. 417; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. p, 154.]

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