The Franciscan William de la Mare noted in his Correctorium fratris Thomae (1278), from various works of the Aquinate, 118 propositions which he rejected, opposing to Thomistic Aristotelianism the solutions of traditional Augustinianism. The Dominicans called this writing the Corruptorium and countered it, in defence of the doctrine of St Thomas, with various works entitled Correctorium corruptorii. There was also a Franciscan reply to one of these. This literature of the correctoria is of considerable value for the historical understanding of the philosophical doctrines proper to St Thomas and of the early Thomist school.
William’s work exists in three stages, indicating successive elaboration: 1) the Declarationes, a brief censure of 60 articles, capable of being written in the margins of the works of St Thomas; 2) the Correctorium of 118 articles, published together with the Quare (see below); 3) an augmented revision of this, which raises the number of articles from 109 (excluding the 9 against the Commentary on the Sentences) to 138. The Dominican replies, all of which refer to the Correctorium in its second state, are: 1) the Correctorium Quare (ed. P. Glorieux, in Bibl. thomiste, IX, Kain 1927), probably written by Richard Clapwell (according to Pelster, by Thomas of Sutton), shortly after William’s work; 2) the Correctorium Circa (ed. J. P. Muller [Studia Anselmiana, 12-13], Rome 1941) by John of Paris, written in the years 1282–84, complete; 3) the Correctorium Sciendum by Robert of Colletorto; 4) the Correctorium Quaestione (incomplete), by an as yet undetermined author, still unpublished; 5) the Apologeticum veritatis contra Corruptorium (ed. J. P. Muller [Studi e Testi, 108], Vatican City 1944) by Rambert of Primadizzi of Bologna, composed in 1287–99, in which antinomian arguments of Henry of Ghent and Giles of Rome are discussed within the framework of William’s writing.