Peter Abelard was French theologian and philosopher best known for his work on the problem of universals. He also poetry, where his most fasmous work is about his love affair with Heloise, and music (see Peter Abelard)..

Works by Peter Abelard

• Logic

ABELARD, PETER.
   Ouvrages inedits d'Abelard. Ed. V. Cousin. Paris, 1836.
   Peter Abaelards Philosophische Schriften. Ed. B. Geyer. (Beiträge
     zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, xxi.)
     Münster i. W., 1919-33.
   Scritti Filosofici: Editio super Porphyrianum, &c. Ed. M. Dal Pra.
     Milan, 1954.
   Dialectica. Ed. L. M. de Rijk. Assen, 1956.
   Abaelardiana Inedita. Ed. L. Minio-Paluello. (Twelfth Century
     Logic: Texts and Studies, ii.) Rome, 1958.

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Primary texts in Latin

Carmen ad Astralabium
  Edited by J.M.A. Rubingh-Bosscher
  in Peter Abelard: Carmen ad Astralabium, a Critical Edition
    Groningen: phil. diss. Rijksuniversiteit 1987.
Collationes a.k.a. Dialogus inter Philosophum, Iudaeum, et Christianum
  Edited by Giovanni Orlandi
  with introduction, translation, and notes by John Marenbon
  in Peter Abelard: Collationes
  Oxford University Press 2001.
Commentaria in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos
  Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert
  in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica
    Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 11
    Brepols: Turnholt 1969, 389–340.
Dialectica
  Edited by L. M. De Rijk
  in Petrus Abaelardus: Dialectica
    Assen: Van Gorcum 1970 (second edition).
Epistolae:
  Ep. 1
    edited by Monfrin (see the entry below for the Historia calamitatum);
  Epp. 2–5
    edited by J.T. Muckle
    Mediaeval Studies 15 (1953) 68–94;
  Epp. 6–7
    edited by J T. Muckle
    Mediaeval Studies 17 (1955) 241–281;
  Ep. 8
    edited by T.P. McLaughlin
    Mediaeval Studies 18 (1956) 242–297;
  Epp. 9–14
    edited by E.R. Smits
    in Peter Abelard: Letters IX–XIV
      Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit 1983;
  Ep. 15
    edited by Josef Reiners
    BGPTM 8 (1910) 63–80;
  Ep. 16
    edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain
    Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 703–707
    corrected against
      Van Den Eynde
      Antonianum 38 (1963) 219;
  Ep. 17
    edited by Charles Burnett
    Mittellateinisch Jahrbuch 21 (1986), 152–155
  Apologia contra Bernardum (Ne iuxta Boethianum)
    edited by Eligius M. Buytaert
    in CCCM 12 359–368;
  Epistola contra Bernardum
    edited by Raymond Klibansky
    [n Medieval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1961), 1–27;
  Confessio fidei “Uniuersis”
    edited by Charles Burnett
    Mediaeval Studies 48 (1986), 182–189.
Ethica seu Scito teipsum
  Edited by R.M. Ilgner
  in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum
   (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 190.
    Brepols: Turnholt 2001.
Expositio orationis dominicae
  Edited by Charles Burnett
  “Expositio orationis dominicae 'Multorum legimus orationes'”
  in Révue Benedictine 95 (1985) 60–72.
Expositio symboli Apostolorum
  Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain
  Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 603–615
    [Available online thanks to the Bibliothèque nationale de France].
Expositio fidei in symbolum Athanasii
  Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain
  Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 615–617.
Hexaëmeron
  Edited by Mary F. Romig
    with the assistance of David Luscombe
  in Corpus christianorum continuatio mediaevalis Vol.15
    Brepols: Turnhout 2004.
Historia calamitatum
  Edited by Jacques Monfrin
  in Abélard, Historia calamitatum: texte et commentaires
    J. Vrin: Paris 1974 (fourth edition), 62–109.
Hymnarius Paraclitensis
  Edited by Chrysogonus Waddell
  in Hymn Collections from the Paraclete Vol. 2
    Trappist Monastery, Ky.: Gethsemani Abbey (Cistercian Liturgy series) 1987.
Introductiones parvulorum
  Edited by Mario Dal Pra
  in Pietro Abelardo: Scritti di logica
    Firenze 1969 (second edition).
Logica ‘ingredientibus’ (LI):
  LI 1: Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge
    Edited by Bernhard Geyer
    in Beiträge zur Geschichte
      der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (1)
    Aschendorff: Munster 1919.
  LI 2: Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories
    Edited by Bernhard Geyer
    in Beiträge zur Geschichte
      der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (2)
    Aschendorff: Munster 1
  LI 3: Commentary on Aristotle’s De interpretatione
    Edited by Klaus Jacobi and Christian Strub
      Corpus christianorum continuatio mediaevalis Vol.206
      Brepols: Turnhout 2010.
  LI 7: Commentary on Boethius’s De topicis differentiis
    Edited by Mario Dal Pra
    in Pietro Abelardo: Scritti di logica, Firenze 1969 (second edition).
Logica 'nostrorum petitioni sociorum’ Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge
  Edited by Bernhard Geyer
  in Beiträge zur Geschichte
    der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (4)
  Aschendorff: Munster 1933.
Planctus
  Planctus 1, 4, 6
    edited by Peter Dronke
    Poetic Individality in the Middle Ages (London 1986)
  Planctus 2, 5
    edited by Giuseppe Vecchi, Pietro Abelardo, I “Planctus” (Modena 1951)
  Planctus 3
    edited by Wolfram von den Steinen
    Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 4 (1967), 122–144
  There are several modern recordings.
Problemata Heloïssae cum Petri Abaelardi solutionibus
  Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain
  Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849): 237–294.
Sententiae secundum Magistrum Petrum
  Edited by Lorenzo Minio-Paluello
  in Twelfth-Century Logic: Texts and Studies Vol. 2 (Abaelardiana inedita)
    Roma 1958.
Sermones
  Edited by Paola De Santis
  in I sermoni di Abelardo per le monache del Paracleto
    Leuven University Press 2002. (Mediaevalia Lovaniensa ser. 1, studia 31.)
Sic et non
  Edited by Blanche Boyer and Richard McKeon
  in Peter Abailard: Sic et Non. A Critical Edition
    University of Chicago Press 1977.
Soliloquium
  Edited by Charles Burnett
  in “Peter Abelard’s 'Soliloquium’: A Critical Edition”
    in Studi Medievali 25 (1984), 857–894.
Theologia 'summi boni’
  Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert and Constant Mews
  in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica
    Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 13
    Brepols: Turnhout 1987.
Theologia christiana
  Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert
  in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica
    Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 12
    Brepols: Turnhout 1969.
Theologia 'scholarium’
  Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert and Constant Mews
    in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica
    Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 13
    Brepols: Turnhout 1987.
Tractatus de intellectibus
  Edited by Patrick Morin
  in Abélard: Des intellections. Paris: J. Vrin 1994.

English

Primary texts in English translation

Arlig, A. and I. Rosier-Catach, 2026
  “Wholes, Aggregates and Collective Nouns”
  in Parts and Wholes, On What There Was (Volume 9), A. Arlig (ed.)
    Turnhout: Brepols, 235–244.
  (Translations of selections from
    the Dialectica and Logica 'ingredientibus’ on collections
    and collective nouns.)
Fairweather, E. R., 1995
  A Scholastic Miscellany, Westminster: John Knox Press
  (Excerpt from Abelard’s commentary on Romans.)
King, Peter, 1982
  Peter Abailard and the Problem of Universals in the Twelfth Century
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Philosophy Department, Princeton University
  (Volumes 2 contains a complete translation of Abelard’s
    Tractatus de intellectibus.)
  2026, “Connected Wholes and the Priority of the Part”
    in Parts and Wholes, On What There Was (Volume 9), A. Arlig (ed.)
    Turnhout: Brepols, 217–234
    (Translation of Abelard’s treatment of integral wholes in Dialectica,
       546–548.)
Luscombe, David, 1971
  Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  (Complete translation of Abelard’s Ethica.)
Marenbon, John and Giovanni Orlandi (eds. and trans.), 2001
  Peter Abelard: Collationes, Oxford: Clarendon
  (Complete translation of Abelard’s Conversations.)
McCallum, James Ramsay, 1948
  Abelard’s Christian Theology, Oxford: Blackwell
  (Includes substantial selections from Abelard’s Theologia christiana.)
Minnis, A. and Scott, A.B. (eds.), 1988
  Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism 1100–1375
    Oxford: Oxford University Press
  (Includes Abelard’s preface to the Sic et non.)
Payer, Pierre, 1979
  Peter Abelard: A Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian
    Toronto: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Publications.
Radice, Elizabeth, 1974
  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, New York: Penguin Books.
Spade, Paul Vincent, 1994
  Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals
    Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company
  (Abelard’s discussion of the problem of universals
    from his Logica 'ingredientibus’.)
Spade, Paul Vincent, 1995
  Peter Abelard: Ethical Writings
  Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company
. (Complete translations of Abelard ‘s Ethics and Conversations.)
Tweedale, Martin and Bosley, Richard, 1997
  Issues in Medieval Philosophy, Peterborough: Broadview Press
  (Includes selections from Abelard on foreknowledge, universals, and ethics.)