'''Richard Rufus of Cornwall''' (Richardus Rufus Cornubiensis).
== Life ==
== Life ==
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Very little is known of Richard's life. He became a Franciscan in 1238, after which he moved to Oxford to stufy theology. Around 1250 he lectured on Peter Lombard's ''Sentences'' at [[Oxford]], and again later at [[Paris]]. He returned to England to be the fifth Oxford Franciscan msater of theology around 1256.
== Work ==
== Work ==
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Richard is the author of the earliest surviving lectures on Aristotle's ''Metaphysics'', ''Physica'', ''De generatione et corruptione'', and ''De anima''.