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- ↑ Parisian Scholars in the Early 14th Century: A Social Portrait, William J. Courteney, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pg. 68.
- ↑ High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292 - 1524, Eric Leland Saak, Brill Publishers, 2002, pg. 221.
- ↑ Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris in the 14th Century, J.M.M.H. Thijssen, 1998, pg, 76.
- ↑ Die Bibliotheca Amploniama: ihre Bedeutung im Spannungsfeld von Aristototelismus Nominalismus and Humanismus, Andreas Speer, Walter de Gruyter, 1995, pp. 344.