OMNIBENE. - Master of theology, who lived around the middle of the 12th century, probably at Bologna, and is perhaps to be identified with the canonist Omnibonus of Bologna, author of the first Abreviatio decreti.

In any case O. is the author of the Tractatus et quorundam sententiae collectae ex diversis auctoribus (cod. lat. Mon. 19.134, formerly belonging to the monastery of Tegernsee, ff. 148-228), a compilation that is based on the sentences of Abelard, as well as on the Summa de Sacramentis and the Summa sententiarum. In his writings are found some of the errors for which Abelard was condemned. It is supposed that O. wrote his works after the death of Abelard, whom he cites several times.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: H. Denifle, Abaelards Sentenzen und die Bearbeitung seiner Theologie, in Archiv f. Litteratur und Kirchengeschichte, 1 (1885), pp. 461-69; M. Grabmann, Die Geschichte der scholastischen Methode, II, Freiburg im Br. 1911, pp. 227-29; A. Landgraf, Écrits théologiques de l'école d'Abelard, Louvain 1934, pp. 32-34.

Erminia Kühn-Steinhausen

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