The love of books; the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

발행: 1966년

분량: 181페이지

출처: archive.org

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cished eve HV, whil ne authors names are imposedupo us is orthlem compilers, translatora, and transformers, and losing our ancient nobili , while, arerebor in successive generations come hollydegenerateri and thus against ur Will the nam offome retched stepsither is affixed oras, and the fonsare robbed of the ames of thei true sethera everses of Virgil, hile he wasaecliving, were claimed by an imposiora an a certain Fidentinus mendaci- ouu usurpe the woris of artis, hom Martialthus deservessi rebuhed

What mareel, then, i When ur authors re dead clerical apes se uso mahe broad thei phylacteries,

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would have been the condition o boohs i it had notbeen so the presumption of the ower of Babel, fbut one hin os speech ad been transmitted by the

whole human race.

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We wil ad the last clause of our long lament, though far too hortis the material that we have. For in us the natura us is changed to that whic is against nature, hile e ho are the liis of faith- fulciouis everrehere fit a re to aintersano ingnouis o letters an are enuustiario goldsmissis obe me, a though, weremo sacredisesseis of Wis-dom, repositories of mld-leas e sal undeservialyinto the power of laymen, hic is more bittera usina an death since the have sol our e te sornought, and our enemies themselves aretur judges. It is clear rom ha we have ini&what infinite invectives e could huri against in clero is, didno thin o ou own reputation. For the soldier hos Campaigns are ver venerates his hiel and arms, an gratesul Corydon hows regis is his decaying eam, harro , fiat an mattoch, and very manual artifice se the instruments of his crast cit isoni the ungratesul cleric horae ises an neglecisthos things hic have eve been in Bundatio of

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TI E venerable devotion os the religious orderais on to e solicitous in the care of boota an to delicti in thei socie , as is theywere the ni riches. For ome sed to rite them it their own hand belween the ours of Wayer, and gave to the mahing o booti suta intervat a the could secure and the times appotnted sor the recreationis the oh. hos laboura there are resplendent to-da in os monasteries these sacredoreasuries ius o cherubi letters sorgiving the nowledge of salvation to the studentand a delectatae light to the paths of the lalty Omanus toti, happier inan an agricultures tas i devout solicitude, here either Martha normarydeserves tot rebuhed Ociola house, in hicli

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the fruitsul Leah does no enu the beauimus Rachel, but actio and contemplation hare eata other'scios O happy charge, destine to benesit endles generations of posterity, wit Which no planting of trees, noso in os seeds, o pastora delight in herct, nobuilding of sortiste camps cani comparedes here-sore the memor of those sethera houldae immortal, who delighted oni in the reasures of Wisdom, homost laboriousi provided shining lamps against futuredarhness, and against hunge of hearing the Word of God mos caresuli prepared notarea bahed in the

loaves ad of the fines Wheat os divine isdom,

These men ere the stoutest champions of the Christian ar , ho defended our eahnes by theirmos vallant arm the were in thei time themost cunning ahers of sexes, who have testis thei neis, that we might catta the ountsexes, who eas notio demur the rowin vines. Os a truth, oblesithera, orthmo perpetua benediction, e ould have been deservessi happy, i ye ad been allowedio eget fispring the ourseives, an to leave nodegenerate or Mubila progen se in benefit offuture times.

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Anyas is the simple monastic t os modern times ere deceived by a confusion o names, while Liber mur is preferrexto Liber Patrum, the stud of themonh nowadays is in the emptyin os cups and notthe emending of booti to whicli the do no hesitate to ad the wanton musicis Timotheus, eatous ofchastity, and thus the song of the merπ-mahe and no the chant of the mourner saecome the ossice of the monks. locis an fleeces, crops and granaries,leeti an potherbs, drin and gobicis, are noWadaysthe readin an stud of the monis, excepi a se electines, in hom linger no in imam ut omestigiit vestige of the fallier that precede them Andagain no materiat at ali are furnished us to commend

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POOR in spirit, ut mos ric in satin, oss-

scouring of the wori an sal of the arth, despiser of the wori and shers of men, howhappy are e is suffering penur sor Christ ehnow o to possem Our ouis in patiences Forit is no want the avenge of iniqui , nor the adverse fortune Dyour arenis, no violent necessitythat has thus oppressed o wit bereary, ut a demut ili an Christ-like election, is hic ye have chosen that lis a the est, hic God Al-might made man as et by or a b example declare to e the est. In truth, e re thelatest Epring of the eve fruitsul Church, o late divinely substituted so the Fathera and the Propheta,

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that ou sound may go seri into ali the earth, and that instructed by ur ealthful doctrines e maypreach besere ali hings an nations the invincibie fait o Christ. Oreoveri that the ait of the Father is chiest enshrine in books the secondchapter has sussiciently shown, fio whicli it is

cleare than liis that e ouis to e ealous loverso booti bove est ther Christians. e re commande to so um est atera, bemus themost High is no respecteri persons, nor oes themost Hol destre the deat of sinners, who offeriamimself to die so them,aut destres in hea the contrite in heari, o ais the fallen, an to correct the e verse in the spiritis leni . For hic mos salu

a principali institute so the stud of themoly

Scriptures and the salvatio of their eighboura, is declared by thei constitutions so that notini Domthe rulei Bisho Augustine, hic direct books tob ashed for everr dar, but a mon a the have ead

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the prologue of the said constitutions the may hnowfrom the ver titie of the fame stat themare pledgedio the love of books. But alas i a threesold care o superfluities, viz. of the stomach, of dress and of houses, has seducta thesemen and thera solio in thei example rom thepaterna care o booti, and Domahela study. For,

semetting the providence of the Saviour in is declared by the Psalmis to thin um in mor and needyὶ the are occupita it the wants of the perishinc dy that their east mayae splendi and thei garment luxurious, against in rute, and the fabric os thei bulldings, lihe the batilements of casiles carried to cheight mcompatiese With pover .

Because of these three things, we books, who have ever procure thei advancement an have granted them to sit among the wwerfui an nobie, re putis fio their rari' affectio an are rectanedas superfluities excepi that the res Mon ometreatises of mali value, rom hic the derive strange heresim an apocrypha imbecilities, no sorthe resteshment of fouis, but ather se lichling the ear of the listenera Themoly Scripture is notis pounded, but is neglecte an treate a though twere commonplace an inoWn to ali, though eu

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