Peter of Auvergne, philosopher and theologian; d. after 1310. He was a canon of Paris; some biographers have thought that he was Bishop of Clermont (Gallia Christ., II, 283), because a Bull of Boniface VIII of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris, Peter of Croc (Cros), already canon of Clermont (Thomas, in “Melanges d’arch. et d’hist.”, Paris, 1882, II, 117-20); but it is more likely that they are distinct. Peter of Auvergne was in Paris in 1301 (Script. Prdicat., I, 489), and, according to several accounts, was a pupil of St. Thomas. In 1279, while the various nations of the University of Paris were quarrelling about the rector ship, Simon of Brion, papal legate, appointed Peter of Auvergne to that office; in 1296 he was elected to it.
His published works are: “Supplementum Commentarii S. Thomw in tertium et quartum librum de caelo et mundo” (in “Opera S. Thom”, II, ad finem); commentaries on Aristotle‘s “Meteororum”; “De Juventute et senectute”; “De longitudine et brevitate vita'”; “De motu animalium”. He has been credited with a supplement to the “Summa” of St. Thomas, but there is no scientific warrant for this. Peter also left numerous treatises which are either at the Biblioth. Nationale, or at l’Arsenal of Paris: “Sex quodlibeta”, long discussions after the manner of St. Thomas; “Sophisma Determinatum”; “Quaestiones super totam logicam veterem Arist.”; “Quiestiones super Perphyrium”; “In Arist. Metaphysicam”; “In libros Politicorum”; “De somno et vigilia”; “De veget. et plantis”; “De anima”.
JOSEPH DEDIEU