ABSTRACT
The work purports to describe a visit paid by Adam of Balsham to his home estate and has been taken, by M anitius4 and the editors of the work,5
1 The treatise has been published by L. Minio-Paluello, Adam Balsamiensis Parvipontani Ars Disserendi (Dialectica Alexandri), Twelfth Century Logic. Texts and Studies 1 (Rome, 1956). See also his important essay The "Ars Disserendi" of Adam of Balsham "Parvipontanus"Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1954), 116-69.
