Robert Holcot,[1] OP (c. 1290 – 1349) was an English Dominican scholastic philosopher, theologian and influential Biblical scholar.
He made important contributions to semantics, the debate over God’s knowledge of future contingent events; discussions of predestination, grace and merit; and philosophical theology more generally.
His influence in the late Middle Ages, however, was clearly great, as is evidenced by the number of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts of his work that have survived.
[3] More impressive are the 175 manuscripts of his commentary on the Book of Wisdom (Lectiones super librum Sapientiae),[4] a work that has been identified as a prime literary source for Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale.
The commentary on the Book of Wisdom was printed in 1480, and, subsequently, went through many editions.