Simon Henton

Simon Henton or Heinton (fl. c. 1248–1262) was a Dominican provincial in England and a biblical commentator. Most of his works are lost.

Biography

Born at Henton, near Winchester, he became a Dominican friar, and eventually provincial of the order in England. He wrote commentaries on the books of Proverbs, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, the four greater prophets, and Job, besides treatises on the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Faith, and the Cross of Christ. All these works have perished. The treatise on the Articles of the Faith and the commentary on Job were once in the library at St. Paul's. Henton's Moralia or Postillæ on the twelve minor prophets are preserved in New College MS. 45. Bernard mentions a manuscript which contains 'excerpta ex summa Fratris Symonis de Heintun'.

Sources

• Coxe, H. O. (1852). "Collegii Novi". Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 12, 13.
• Dugdale, William (1658). The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London. Tho. Warren. pp. 277, 282.
• Tugwell, Simon (2004). "Hinton [Henton], Simon of (fl. c. 1248–1262), Dominican theologian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12995. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1891). "Henton, Simon". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 139.

Further reading

• Bernard, Edward (1697). Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae. Oxford. p. 1063.
• Quétif, Jacques; Échard, Jacques (1719). Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum. Vol. 1. Paris: J-B Christophe Ballard. p. 648.
• Tanner, Thomas (1748). Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica. London: William Bowyer. p. 397.