STUDIA UBB. PHILOSOPHIA, Vol. 61 (2016), Special Issue, pp. 5-13 (RECOMMENDED CITATION) PELBARTUS OF THEMESWAR’S USE OF SOURCES IN THE ROSARIUM. A STATISTICAL STUDY * ALEXANDRA BANEU ** ABSTRACT. Pelbartus of Themeswar’s Use of Sources in the Rosarium. A Statistical Study. This article analyses Pelbartus of Themeswar’s use of sources in the first volume of the Rosarium. In order to make the mapping of influences easier we have divided the works cited into two categories: medieval and ancient writings. The group of medieval works is also divided into two subcategories: scotist commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and alphabetical Summae and Encyclopedias. These are the two types of works that have inspired the form of the Rosarium. Keywords: commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, explicit sources, alphabetical organization, scotist authors, ancient and medieval sources The manner of invoking sources in commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard varied significantly according to temporal and geographical criteria. 1 The tendency was for references to become more and more precise with the passing of time, as Damasus Trapp argues while discussing the context of the commentaries of 14 th century Augustinian doctors: “(…) much more attention was now paid to the exactness of quoting from the Fathers and to quoting in general; quotations from the Fathers and past theologians furnished material for a critique of the preceding days and ways”. 2 Although this quote does not consider the century or the intellectual * I would like to thank Monica Brînzei for her bibliographical suggestions and Alexander Baumgarten for his help with the translation of the Latin text. ** PhD candidate, The Doctoral School of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: alexandra.baneu@yahoo.com 1 This subject has also been treated by Chris Schabel and Damasius Trapp. See: Chris Schabel. “Haec Ille: Citation, Quotation and Plagiarism in 14 th Century Scholasticism” in Ioannis Taifacos (ed.), The Origins of European Scholarship, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, p. 163വ175; Damasus Trapp, “Augustinian Theology of the 14 th Century. Notes on Editions, Marginalia, Opinions and Booklore”, Augustinianum 6/1956, p. 146വ274. (From now on: Damasus Trapp, “Augustinian Theology of the 14 th Century”. 2 Damasus Trapp, “Augustinian Theology of the 14 th Century”, p. 147.