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RAYMOND OF SEBONDE

Volume 18 · 181 words · 1860 Edition

(written also Sabonde, Sabonde, Sebon, Sebond, Sebeide, Sabiende, and Sebeide), was born at Barcelona towards the close of the fourteenth century, professed philosophy, theology, and medicine, from 1430 to 1432, in the university of Toulouse, where he died in 1432. Dr C. L. Kleiber, who has recently examined the oldest MS. relating to Raymond at Paris, conjectures that it is Sahedo in Spain that must be meant by the place so variously spelt in the different accounts given of him. There are a number of works ascribed to him; but the only one known in our day is the *Theologia Naturalis sine liber creaturarum*, written, according to some, in Spanish, but translated into French by Montaigne in 1569; into Latin at different times—Deventer, 1487; Strasburg, 1496; Nürnberg, 1502; Paris, 1509; Venice, 1581; Lyon, 1648. The author, who was the first to use the expression *Theologia Naturalis*, spent upwards of thirty years in the composition of this work. It was begun in 1404, and finished 1436. (See *De Raimundi quem vocant Raymond Sabunde vita et scriptis*, by Dr C. L. Kleiber, 1856.)