ADAM SCOTUS (c. 1180), theological writer, sometimes called Adam Anglicus or Anglo-Scotus, was born in the south of Scotland in the first half of the 12th century. About 115o he was a Premonstratensian canon at St. Andrews, and about 20 years later was perhaps abbot and bishop of Candida Casa (Whithorn) in Galloway. He gained a European reputation for his writings, which are of mystico-ascetic type, and include an account of the Premonstratensian order, a collection of festival sermons, and a Soliloquia de instructione discipuli, formerly at tributed to his contemporary, Adam of St. Victor.