'''Simon Henton''' or '''Heinton'''{{Efn|Also called '''Simonis de Hentona''' (or '''Harneton'''), '''Simonem de Hentone''', '''Symonis de Heintun''', and '''Simon Hentonus''' (alias '''Herneton''' or '''Hareton''')}} ({{Floruit|{{circa|1248–1262}}}}) was a Dominican provincial in England and a biblical commentator. Most of his works are lost.<ref>Tugwell 2004.</ref><ref name=":0">Kingsford 1891, p. 139.</ref>
== Biography == Born at Henton, near Winchester, he became a Dominican friar, and eventually provincial of the order in England.<ref name=":0" /> He wrote commentaries on the books of Proverbs, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach, the four greater prophets, and Job, besides treatises on the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Faith, and the Cross of Christ.<ref name=":0" /> All these works have perished.<ref name=":0" /> The treatise on the Articles of the Faith and the commentary on Job were once in the library at St. Paul's.<ref>Dugdale, pp. 277, 282.</ref><ref name=":0" /> Henton's ''Moralia'' or ''Postillæ'' on the twelve minor prophets are preserved in New College MS. 45.<ref>Coxe, i. 12, 13.</ref><ref name=":0" /> Bernard mentions a manuscript which contains 'excerpta ex summa Fratris Symonis de Heintun'.<ref>''Cat. MSS. Angl. et Hib''. pt. iii. No. 736.</ref><ref name=":0" />
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== Sources ==
* * {{Cite book |last=Coxe |first=H. O. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cataloguscodicum01coxeuoft/page/n515/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1852 |volume=1 |pages=12, 13 |chapter=Collegii Novi}} * {{Cite book |last=Dugdale |first=William |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstpauls01dugd/page/276/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London |publisher=Tho. Warren |year=1658 |pages=277, 282}} * {{cite ODNB|last=Tugwell|first=Simon|date=2004|title=Hinton [Henton], Simon of (fl. c. 1248–1262), Dominican theologian|id=12995|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12995}}
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* {{DNB|last=Kingsford|first=Charles Lethbridge|wstitle=Henton, Simon|volume=26|pages=139}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book |last=Bernard |first=Edward |url=https://archive.org/details/CatalogiLibrorumManuscriptorumAngliae1/page/n495/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae |year=1697 |series= |volume= |location=Oxford |pages=1063 |chapter=}} * {{Cite book |last1=Quétif |first1=Jacques |url=https://archive.org/details/ScriptoresOpVolume1/page/n697/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum |last2=Échard |first2=Jacques |publisher=J-B Christophe Ballard |year=1719 |volume=1 |location=Paris |pages=648}} * {{Cite book |last=Tanner |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/BibliothecaBritannicoHibernicaTanner/page/n451/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica |publisher=William Bowyer |year=1748 |location=London |pages=397}}
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