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For you thought that this would be of profit to many, and especially to be commended among our own. Therefore, humbly giving assent to your prayers, I promised what I knew did not exceed the powers of my talent, taking confidence from the aid of the Most High and from brotherly charity, with which we desire continually to be armed in this life."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0001-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0001:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":1,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0001","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-1","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0001-0005"},"text":"Hence, as soon as I was permitted to breathe a little from my occupations, with mind of faith I put my hand to the papers, and, aided by your prayers, arranged this modest little treatise which you see, On the Praise of Scribes. In it, if I have done anything less than I ought, you should know that it must be imputed to my various cares, by which I am for the most part so occupied that scarcely am I allowed, in snatched intervals, to return to the studies I desire."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0001-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0001:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":1,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0001","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-1","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0001-0006"},"text":"Therefore let your charity, venerable father, receive the book which it has sought; let it read, examine, and, if it judges it worthy, allow it also to come to the knowledge of other brothers. For it may happen that by reading it the brothers will be incited to love of writing. But you, proceed on the path begun; apply yourself ardently to the sacred writings, and exhort your brothers in every way to do the same. Let them look upon that holy and venerable man Rupert, once abbot of your monastery of Deutz, who even by himself can suffice them as an example of study. He, with singular desire, the divine Scriptures then"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0002-0001"},"text":"...by reading and then by praying: through a vision, with the Holy Spirit teaching him, he deserved to make such progress in them that in his own time he had no equal in expounding the mysteries of the Scriptures. If by study we cannot attain to his measure, must we therefore cease from holy studies? Will the excellence of the others bar us from approaching sacred reading? Far from it. If we cannot imitate Augustine or Gregory, let us at least imitate those whose learning we know flowed forth from others. But each has his own gift from God: one in this way, another in that. Only let us beware that in the Lord’s field we are not barren, without the fruit of good studies. Farewell, remembering us. In the year of the Lord 1492."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0002-0002"},"text":"There follow the chapters of the present work, On the Praise of Scribes."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0002-0003"},"text":"The beginning of the book treats of the praise of scribes. First. ii. The commendation of the usefulness of sacred Scripture. iii. On the diligence and love of the ancients toward books. iv. With how great diligence they labored in writing. v. How fitting it is for monks to write. vi. How good and useful it is for them if they write. vi. That they should not excuse themselves from writing because of printing. vii. On orthography and the manner of writing. viii. On those who do not know how to write: what they should do. ix. What kinds of subject matter monks ought to write. x. Whether it is permitted to write on feast days. xi. On the distinction between the names of writers and of little works. xii. On the training of scribes and the avoidance of idleness. xiii. Whether a multitude of books is commendable. xiv. On the care and cleanliness to be maintained for books. xv. An exhortation to the study and love of the Scriptures. xvi. Here end the chapters of this book On the Praise of Scribes."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0002-0004"},"text":"Here begins the book of lord Johannes Trithemius, abbot in Sponheim, On the Praise of Scribes, addressed to lord Gerlac, abbot of Deutz."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0002-0005"},"text":"Since we are about to discourse on the praise of scribes, we invoke the aid of him who promised to sincere scribes the brightness of eternal life as a reward. For those who instruct many unto righteousness shall shine like stars for everlasting eternities. That this must be understood not only of those who forge new things from their own vein, but also of those who transcribe old things, we shall show in what follows, the Lord granting it. For however useful the teaching of a doctor may be, without the ministry of the scribe it is by no means brought down to the knowledge of posterity. Whatever good we do, whatever we teach fruitfully, is quickly snatched into oblivion unless it is committed to letters by the zeal of scribes. Scribes, therefore, give power to words, memory to things, vigor to times. If you remove them from the Church, faith wavers, charity grows cold, hope falls away, right perishes, law is confounded, the Gospel passes into oblivion. In short, if writing fails, the people will be scattered, devotion will be extinguished, the peace of Catholic unity, confounded, will be disturbed. But without scribes, writing cannot long remain safe: it is both broken by accident and corrupted by age. For printing is a thing of paper, and in a short time it is wholly consumed. But the scribe, entrusting letters to parchment, extends both himself and what he writes into a long time. Hence he enriches the Church, preserves faith, destroys heresies, drives away vices, instructs morals, and gives increase to virtues. The devout scribe, such as we intend to describe, praises God, gladdens angels, strengthens righteous men, corrects sinners, commends the humble, preserves the good, overthrows the proud, condemns the obstinate. The scribe distinguished by piety is God’s herald, because he announces God’s will both to those present and to those to come, promising eternal life to the good, pardon to the penitent, punishment to the negligent, damnation to those who despise him."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0001"},"text":"What is more salutary than this art, what more commendable in piety, which God loves, the angels cultivate, and all the citizens of heaven venerate? For this is what forges weapons for the faithful against heretics, casts down the proud, despoils demons by its strength, and sets a rule of living for Christians. This is what teaches the ignorant, strengthens the faint-hearted, cherishes the devout, and embraces the peaceable in love. What can be said by me worthily in praise of the writer? Whatever I may say falls below his praises, because my narrow spirit will be straitened within me before material worthy of so great an honor is lacking. I confess that it happens to me as usually happens to unskilled orators, who, terrified by the majesty of the subjects about which they had begun to speak, can neither say what they feel nor, because of shame, presume to be silent. And so it comes about that, while they fear to transgress the order and rules of speaking, they fall away from the useful purpose proposed. For just as the spirit of prophecy sometimes profitably deserts even prophets for a time, so too customary eloquence is not always present to orators. How much more easily, then, is trembling instilled in me, who am neither a rhetorician nor fit to adorn a broad subject with speech. My tongue, now dry, clings to my palate; my breath presses upon my dry breast; my sight trembles; likewise my pen; in my heart alone desire and love for the writer flourish. Therefore, when I have failed, let no one know that the subject-matter was lacking, but rather words for the speaker. Yet with Christ’s help I shall do what I can, since charity alone is the cause of our labor, which is rightly proclaimed able to do all things."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0002"},"text":"Commendation of the usefulness of sacred Scripture."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0003"},"text":"Chapter 2."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0004"},"text":"But before we pursue further the praises and usefulness of writers, it is pleasing to loosen the pen for a little in commendation of sacred Scripture, so that the brothers who are to be urged on to the study of writing may first be urged on to love of sacred knowledge. For unless the usefulness of the work is evident, persuasion to labor will not bend the mind."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0005"},"text":"Sacred Scripture, therefore, dearest brothers, is useful to us for many things; like a little boat on this great sea, it carries its lovers across to the shore without danger, while it raises minds from earthly things to heavenly ones, while it softens tribulations, while it lightens labors, while, uprooting vices, it plants virtues. For it kindles charity, increases faith, stirs devotion, and nourishes truth. Blessed is he who has loved it, provided that he has remained in its paths even to death. Better is its acquisition than the trade of gold and silver; its first and purest fruits are more precious than all riches. Knowledge of the Scriptures is more precious than all resources, and all things that are desired by human beings in this life cannot be compared with it. Length of days is in its right hand, and in its left hand are riches and glory. Its ways are beautiful ways, and all its paths are peaceful. It is a tree of life to those who have taken hold of it, and those who have held it fast are blessed. For it purifies the human heart, enlightens the understanding of its lover, and, sweetly inflaming the affection, makes it drunk. This I loved and sought out from my youth; I chose it as a bride, and became a lover of its beauty. Having fellowship with God glorifies its nobility; indeed, the Lord of all loved it."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0006:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0003-0006"},"text":"For it is the teacher of the discipline of God and the chooser of his works. It is more beautiful than the sun, and above every arrangement of the stars; compared with light, it is found to be prior, because its radiance is never extinguished by darkness. He who loves knowledge of the Scriptures, his dwelling will be established in peace. For its conversation has no bitterness, nor does living with it have weariness, but gladness and joy. O how wonderful and sweet is the order of sayings present in the Scriptures, where the desire of the lover always increases, where satiety never produces disgust, where there is the delightful [unclear] of the righteous, where excess is not reproved, but rather frequent importunity is more praised. In this the knowledge of things pertaining to salvation is learned; in this eternal life is promised to those who believe rightly. For the Scriptures describe past things without falsehood, show present things otherwise than they appear, and announce future things before us as if from certainty. Everywhere in them truth reigns; everywhere divine power shines forth; everywhere from"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0001"},"text":"necessary for the salvation of souls are disclosed to those who read."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0002"},"text":"For what usefulness and sweetness is not contained in the holy letters, if they are read with pure intention? There is what the strong man may eat; there what the little child may suck. There history proclaims the truth of the deed; there allegory strengthens faith; there tropology forms morals; there anagogy raises the mind to the heavenly homeland. It is wholly full of virtues, if it is read with devout and pure intention. Nothing there has been set down idly; nothing fashioned without cause of mystery. All things are full of mysteries and piety. For human reason did not discover these letters; rather, heavenly power once infused them into holy men. And they are then granted to be well understood when the devout mind has believed that they proclaim true and useful things. But the carnal man, however much he may be puffed up with knowledge, cannot understand the sacred scriptures, because the true knowledge of the scriptures is the devout humility of minds."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0003"},"text":"The truly studious lover of sacred knowledge easily obtains quiet of heart, because while he is intent on the teaching of the scriptures, he is less assailed by the vanity of the world. For that blessed man truly said: Love the knowledge of the scriptures, and you will not love the vices of the flesh! O, if the human mind did not grow lukewarm from such studies, how happy a state of the inner man would flourish. If the restless mind of mortals had no time of idleness, so easy an entrance would not lie open to the filth of vices. O, if our cloistered men now truly applied themselves to the studies of the scriptures as they once did, how useful they would be both to themselves and to the catholic Church. For the knowledge of the scriptures is what profitably sets the humble on high; enriches the poor; glorifies the despised; helps the devout; adorns prelates; separates monks from the world; purges vices; exalts by the steps of virtues. It is she indeed who forms faith, orders charity, raises hope, cultivates justice, instructs temperance, and directs prudence to the rule of piety."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0004"},"text":"Sacred scripture is the fountain of wisdom, the path of justice, the form of discipline, the storehouse of salvation, the mistress of truth. If you truly love her, you will find her; and if you remain in her company, she will delight your heart with ineffable joy, so that in comparison with her you will despise all the honors and riches of this world as a little dust. For she will teach you to overcome all the adversities of the world, to spurn the enticements of pleasures, to esteem the beauties of this life as foul things. If you have this beloved bride, you will never be ruinously sad, but always joyful, always cheerful, always advancing in the love of God. Moreover she will exalt you before God and men, and you will be admirable in the mouth of all, and your superiors will venerate you. There will be no one to contradict your words; you will have kings and princes as friends, and from remote parts of the earth they will send blessings to you. You will be glorious without ambition, and revered without fear. You will obtain an ineffable gift from her, and you will be venerable before all men. She will free you from the bond of this corrupt flesh, and will lead you before the throne of the most high King, where you will be clothed with the robe of joyful immortality. This mother is strong and very honorable; with her going before, you will pass safely through the camps of enemies. For she has the knowledge of God as her friend. Whoever you are, therefore, who love the salvation of your soul, do not depart from this mistress; do not neglect her precepts, so that you may be able to come to the love of God. To continue her friendship, an abundance of holy volumes is necessary for you. For without books you will not come to her familiarity."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0005"},"text":"On the diligence and love of the ancients toward books."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0006"},"text":"Chapter 3."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0007:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0007","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0004-0007"},"text":"Now, therefore, by the example of the ancients, even of the gentiles, I shall try, as far as possible, to stir you to the love of books. For examples sometimes profit more than words, because when we see that others have already done what we are commanded to do, we fear less the hardness of the labor. But what is proposed as singular is judged more burdensome by the one undertaking it. Human weakness rejoices in the company of many, and what is more frequently practiced by many frightens less. Therefore, if we consider how great a diligence the ancients had in collecting books, our studies will appear as nothing, like children’s play. They spared no expense; they feared no labors, by which they might [unclear] a multitude of books"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005:p-0001:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005:p-0001:annotation-002","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005:p-0001:annotation-003","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005:p-0001:annotation-004"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0005-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":5,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-5","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0005-0001"},"text":"to acquire. Hence they not only bought up the volumes of their own peoples, but also, translating into their own language the sayings or deeds of any foreign nations whatsoever, strove to lay them up in public libraries. Among these, Pisistratus was the first among the Greeks to establish a library; after it had been enlarged by the Athenians, Xerxes, when Athens was burned, carried it off to Persia, and long afterward Seleucus Nicanor brought it back again to Greece. From this there arose among kings and other cities a zeal for gathering books of various peoples and translating them into another language through interpreters. Later King Alexander, surnamed the Great, although he was continually occupied with military expeditions, devoted his mind in a wonderful way to establishing libraries of all books. What shall I say of Ptolemy Philadelphus, a man most acute in every branch of learning? Since in his zeal for a library he emulated Pisistratus, he brought into his own library, with incredible fervor, not only the writings of the nations, but also the divine writings, translated at very great expense. For in his time seventy thousand books were found at Alexandria. Plato, chief of the philosophers, is said to have had so great a love for books that he bought the three books of Philolaus the Pythagorean for ten thousand denarii. Aristotle too, of no lesser renown among the philosophers, [unclear]; [unclear] of books, whose number is immense. Let us pass on to our own men. Ambrose, disciple and friend of the great Origen, burning with a credible zeal for books, daily urged Origen to write, indeed drove him to it, so that in a certain letter he affectionately called him the taskmaster of the work. The blessed martyr Pamphilus, [unclear] presbyter of Caesarea, loved books with so great a desire that, copying with his own hand the greater part of Origen's books, he gathered a very great multitude of books at Caesarea, with Eusebius cooperating. Saint Jerome the presbyter also, withdrawing from the city, although he despised all worldly things, confesses that he could not abandon only the library which he had founded for himself. Augustine, outstanding doctor of the Catholic Church, when he was about to die, entrusted to the brothers, as though by a special testament, that they should carefully guard the ecclesiastical library. It would be long if we wished to describe by name the foremost lovers of books whom we know, who flourished from the beginning of the Christian faith down to our own age. The almost countless volumes which they handed over to their libraries bear witness to their sacred love. We see in many monasteries, especially of our order, splendid and very ancient copies, which, written with marvelous fineness, demonstrate the diligence of the ancients. Once there was among the abbots and monks of our order an incredible zeal for books, since they knew that in them were found the adornment of the order and the remedy for infirm souls. For books are what create in us a desire for future blessedness, lessen the miseries of present exile, drive out vices, bring in virtues, bestow constancy in tribulation, and produce the fruit of allotted time. For what could we do except set our minds on earthly things, if we did not have the consolation of more pleasant writings? In short, the Catholic faith would quickly fail from human minds if the instruments of Scripture were not available, [unclear]. For among all manual exercises, none is so fitting for monks as to devote their zeal to writing sacred volumes. On the diligence of the ancients in writing books. Chapter 4."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0006-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0006:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":6,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0006","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-6","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0006-0001"},"text":"Finally, if we carefully inspect the histories of time past, we shall both find and marvel with what great care the ancient and holy fathers devoted themselves to writing books, even with their own hands. For they knew the twofold usefulness of this art: that it was beneficial to themselves in many ways, for body and soul, and that it served posterity for the honorable conduct of life. Saint Pamphilus the martyr, as we have already said a little earlier, was so great a lover of this art that he copied out with his own hand the greater part of the books of Origen. If so great and worthy a man, a martyr of Christ, did not refuse to undertake the office of a scribe with such fervent desire, what shall we little worms say, who, dwelling in a monastery without care for temporal affairs, do not deign to set our hand to writings, neither by the example of the ancients nor by the command of prelates? That holy martyr will stand against us at the judgment as a witness of our sloth and laziness: we who neglect to imitate in peace what he performed with great desire in persecution. We read of Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan, that he copied out with his own hand all the books published by him; of these I myself, lest you think them few, have now found more than a hundred. Who among us would dare to boast that he has copied out a hundred books published by others in the leisure of the monastery, when this most blessed bishop, placed in ecclesiastical care and occupied with many things, even recopied more books, which he himself had previously composed? Love of the Scriptures does not allow its devotees to be idle. But because we neglect to have this love in ourselves, we grow sluggish in inert leisure, so that things which are very easy for the studious are made difficult for us to accomplish. O how happy our order would be, brothers, if by the examples of the ancients we devoted ourselves earnestly to the study of the Scriptures. Let us look upon the ancient abbots and monks of our order, pillars of our religious life: Cassiodorus, Bede, Alcuin, Regino, Peter Damian, and the rest; with what great diligence they copied out the books of the ancients, for whom no labor seemed hard, no expenses burdensome, by which they could increase the adornment of their libraries."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0001"},"text":"Concerning this industry Cassiodorus and Peter Damian produced exceptional and very distinguished treatises. But neither, brothers, ought we carelessly to pass over your Rupert of Deutz, whose depth of intellect the bright mass of so many volumes adorned. For he himself, since he was a devout man and a most ardent lover of God and of the Scriptures, deserved to be divinely illuminated through a vision, so that in expounding the Scriptures Germany in his time had no one like him. He composed many excellent volumes, which he copied out with his own hands after the example of Ambrose, and cheerfully shared with others to be copied."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0002"},"text":"Among these, Cuno, abbot of the monastery of Siegburg and later bishop of Regensburg, a man zealous in the divine Scriptures, had almost all the treatises which your Rupert had fashioned copied out, both by himself and by his brothers. Hence the greater part of Rupert's volumes is held in the monastery of Siegburg. But Rupert himself also, gathering books of various arts, established at Deutz a most richly furnished library, which the malice of the times, as is evident, has long since scattered."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0003"},"text":"In many monasteries of our order also, the diligence of the ancients in writing volumes is still seen today, where twenty or thirty volumes, often most handsomely written by the hand of one man, are shown. Finally, in the Life of Saint Martin of Tours, Sulpicius relates that in his monastery no craft was practiced except that of copyists. From this it is plainly gathered that even the most holy fathers of old preferred this happy art to all manual exercises in monasteries. Therefore let none of you, brothers, shrink from what he knows the holy fathers did with such great diligence. As they benefited us by writing, so let us prepare memorials of salvation for those who come after us. For if the ancients had not written long ago, what would we now read? Indeed, if I had not resolved to serve brevity, I could still declaim many things about the diligence of the ancient copyists. But since I am speaking to those who know the histories, I wish to shorten the discourse I have begun."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0004"},"text":"That copying the books of the ancients is, as it were, the proper and fitting craft of monks."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0005:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0005:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0005"},"text":"Let us attend, brothers, to what Paul the Apostle says for our purpose, and what holy Benedict too, our lawgiver, proclaims in the Rule. For they are our leaders, whose commands it is fitting for us to obey. The first says thus: He who does not work, let him not eat. The second says: Then they are true monks, when they live from the labors of their own hands. Therefore, if the man who does not wish to work is forbidden to eat, idle monks should either not eat, or should acknowledge themselves transgressors of the apostle's precepts. But if they cannot live unless they eat, they must work, so that, working and eating, they may also be able to live well. For to live and not to live well is already to begin to die. But he lives badly who lives otherwise than he ought. We all ought, however, [unclear] according to the rule of life; the end of the worst condition is the beginning [unclear], unless repentance is undertaken before the end of life."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0006"},"text":"Likewise, if those are true monks who live from the labors of their own hands, it follows that those are not true monks who, living idly, despise work. But he who is not a true monk in a monastery, what, I ask, is he? He is not what he is, who is not true. Certainly he is not a monk who is not a true one; and what is contrary to truth is not as it ought to be. But what is not as it ought to be contradicts the highest truth, which has established for all things the due order of being. And therefore it truly is not."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0007","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0007-0007"},"text":"And so we must work; what better suits us, is more expedient, and comes closer to our profession than the office of writing? For, bound to the divine offices, we cannot dig; we cannot bear the hard and heavy labors of the fields, because if it happened that we were worn out outdoors through the day in rustic works, the divine service in choir would perish. But since service to God must be placed before all labors, it would be very unfitting for monks to immerse themselves in exterior things while interior things were neglected. But the labor of writing does not hinder"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008:p-0001:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008:p-0001:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0008-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":8,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-8","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0008-0001"},"text":"hours assigned to the divine office; for when the course of the hours is divided by intervals of time, a fitting space is allotted to each. We read of Saint Bede, the venerable monk, that although he wrote many volumes, he nevertheless was seldom accustomed to absent himself from the divine service on account of study; but, content with the interval between the hours, he wrote the books he published, almost innumerable. Nevertheless, if the abbot judges it useful and it is necessary, a good scribe may sometimes be excused from the common services. But in this freedom the proper circumstances must necessarily be weighed. For not every spirit is to be believed. The office of a monk is to lament both his own misdeeds and those of others, and to await with fear the coming of the Lord; to devote himself often to prayer and contemplation; to flee the world; to sit in solitude. But in this our age, what monk will you give me, one out of thousands, who dwells continually on the mountain of contemplation? Since, therefore, we are sluggish for prayer and untrained for contemplation, lest we run out into vain desires, we shall be able to compensate for this deficiency by no labors better than if we devote our study to writing volumes for the edification of many. But if there is anyone who, in the hours free for prayer and contemplation, can apply himself to them properly and steadfastly, he will be excused from the burden of writing. But let the examination of this matter be placed in the discretion of the abbot, or of some other experienced man. For one must not quickly trust the impulses of young men. For often, when they think they have already arrived at the mountain of contemplation, they draw near to dangerous errors. Therefore, O abbot or prior, if you see a young monk not yet well instructed in active habits, but still seething with his own passions, even if he says marvelous things, do not permit it; but seize his feet and cast him down to the earth of subjection, so that he may learn not to savor lofty things in pride and elation of heart, but to agree with the humble. In this we are not saying that you ought to prohibit one who can act well, but that you should teach such men, if they are ours, the order of making progress, lest, if the beast touches the mountain, it perish overwhelmed with stones. But he who has crucified his flesh with its vices and desires, who knows how to rule over his passions, who has learned to live humbly under obedience, even if he is young, is fit to ascend the mountain of God. But let him who is still subject to animal passions, who is still weak and feeble, keep his foot from approach to the mountain and devote his effort to the holy exercises of the active life. Such men, therefore, are to be assigned to the office of writing, lest, being ruinously released to their own freedoms, they cast themselves headlong into the pit of error. For no one suddenly becomes supreme; rather, by fixed degrees of distinctions, a man advances to the heights. One must begin from the active life, so that one may duly come to the contemplative. But in no matter can a monk come closer to the perfection of the active life than if, out of charity, he keeps watch in copying the divine Scriptures. For from what source will he give alms, who has nothing? But a devout scribe is recognized as fulfilling works of mercy more abundantly, and his labor is proved to be of greater merit. Hence someone sang thus: The scribe preaches and studies, gives freely and prays. He afflicts himself, gives [unclear], and [unclear] a fountain for those to come. He enriches the Church, arms it, guards it, honors it. What labor is more useful than this, which is honored with so many privileges? Finally, if anyone desires to be better informed about this matter, let him read the book of the chancellor of Paris On the Praise of Scribes. For there he will see the benefits of writing already mentioned set out abundantly, and many compositions gathered together in praise of the good scribe. Therefore no labor exercised by the hands accords more with our purpose than the office of writing. Considering this in former times, monks copied books with incredible desire, knowing that this art was singularly beloved by almighty God. For God wills us to know and do his will, and carefully to keep his commandments. But his will would in no way reach our knowledge unless he had committed it to letters by this industry of the scribe. Scribes, therefore, are messengers of the will of God, who have handed it down to us through letters."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0008-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":8,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-8","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0008-0002"},"text":"How good and useful it is for monks to write. Chapter VI."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0009-0001"},"text":"Great, therefore, is the usefulness of this most sacred art, which announces the will of God not only to those present, but also to those to come. Monks, moreover, who write divine books, who have the office not of teaching but of lamenting, since they are unable to preach by speech, announce by hand and pen the will of the Lord to those far in the future. And the piety of the scribe is greater than the office of the preacher, because the admonition of the one perishes with time, while the announcement of the other endures for many years. The preacher speaks only to those present; the scribe preaches also to those to come. The word of the one, once heard, is quickly reduced to nothing; the reading of the other, repeated a thousand times, is never diminished. When the preacher fails, the office ceases; the scribe, even when dead, gives instruction in morals in the volume. The office of the preacher has little value if it is not aided by the ministry of the scribe. For what will he preach, if the scribe has not written what he may read? Therefore, from the piety of the scribe the sermon of the preacher is made useful; [unclear]."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0002:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0009-0002"},"text":"Four chief advantages, moreover, the devout monk obtains in writing. The time, which is most precious, is spent fruitfully; his understanding is illuminated while he writes; his inward affection is kindled to devotion; and after this life he is rewarded with a singular recompense. How could a monk spend the time granted to him more fruitfully than to devote himself, with the love of God, to the writing of volumes? For God favors this office; the angels rejoice with it and assist it; the sincere devotion of all the faithful serves it. Finally, meanwhile, because he copies good and devout materials, he does not suffer empty or base thoughts to trouble him; he does not speak idle words; he is not stained by rumors; but, sitting quiet and alone, he feasts with joy upon the scriptures, and by good exercises provokes those who look on to glorify God. For while he writes good materials, by writing he is gradually brought into the knowledge of mysteries, and inwardly in his mind [unclear], because we who write and read treat them with some delay."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0009-0003"},"text":"The mind also of the writer is for the most part more happily kindled to devotion, while, ruminating on the scriptures, he is often inflamed by them. But what reward in heaven is owed to the devout scribe can easily be gathered from his many labors. For we believe that the devout and sincere scribe is not deprived, in that recompense of the just, of the preacher’s aureole, since he is seen to teach so many in the faith by hand. For what the one teaches by speaking, this one teaches by the office of writing."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0009-0004"},"text":"There was in a certain monastery of our order, not unknown to me, a certain devout brother who had great zeal in writing volumes for the adornment of the library, so that whenever he could be free from the divine office, betaking himself to the secrets of his cell, he would devote himself to this sacred labor. Hence he also copied out many little works of the saints with great devotion. When, after his death and after many years, his bones were lifted from the earth, three fingers of the right hand, with which he had written so many volumes, were found so whole and incorrupt as if they had been placed in the tomb at that same time. The rest of the body, however, as is customary, had been consumed down to the bones. From this testimony it is gathered how holy this office is judged before almighty God; for, in order to show its merit to all who live, he honored the members of scribes even in dead bodies."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0005:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0005:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0009-0005"},"text":"O my brothers, if you knew the usefulness of this work, you would not be so sluggish and slow for the office of the scribe. Or do you think that God can be appeased by the sacrifices of fools? A humble brother who, devoutly from obedience, copies out one book has greater merit before God than he who seems, both devoutly and on his own authority, to be free for contemplation. For obedience is better than sacrifices. A monk, moreover, if he is ordered, must set aside a good work and fulfill the lawful will of the abbot, not his own. For evil must never be done for the sake of obedience. Therefore, dearest brothers, do not neglect this good; do not despise the zeal for writing. For it is a great good, and very useful to the Catholic Church and to your souls. If anyone has practiced himself in it, he will recognize how great its usefulness is. Begin with desire, and with love you will complete it. Let each one rejoice to have brought, by his labors, some usefulness to others in the house of God. Clement and [unclear] is the Lord, [unclear]."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0001"},"text":"your labors, so pious, so useful, so necessary to the Church, will not pass without the greatest recompense."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0002"},"text":"That, because of printing, one must not desist from writing volumes. Chapter VII."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0003:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0003:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0003"},"text":"[unclear], brothers, let no one say: “What need is there for me to weary myself by writing, when the art of printing pours forth so many and such great books into the light that with little money we can furnish a great library?” Truly, whoever speaks in this way is trying to make darkness for his own leisure. Who does not know how great the distance is between writing and printing? For writing, if it is put on parchment, can endure for a thousand years; but printing, since it is a thing of paper, how long will it last? If it can endure in a paper volume for two hundred years, that is a great thing, although there are many who think that printing will be consumed by its own material. Posterity will judge this. Indeed, even if many volumes have been printed, they will never be printed to such an extent that you cannot always find something not printed to write. Nor [unclear], even if all the books of the whole world were printed, should the devout scribe in any way desist from his pursuit, but he should also perpetuate useful printed books by writing, since otherwise they cannot last long. For by doing this he will give firmness to writings that totter, greatness of value to cheap things, longevity of time to perishable things."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0004:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0004"},"text":"Moreover, the devout scribe will always find something in which, by applying himself to his office, he may earn merit. He does not allow himself to be constrained under the printer’s condition. He is free, and he will rejoice in the office of his liberty. For he is not inferior to the printer, so as to abandon his pursuit because of the other’s printing. But, prudently passing him by, he proceeds gladly on the path begun, knowing that his crown before God will not be diminished by any importunity of another. But he who ceases from the pursuit of writing because of printing [unclear] is not a true lover of writings, because, looking only to present things, he has no concern for the edification of posterity. But we, dearest brothers, looking to the reward of this holy labor, should not cease from its pursuit, even if we have many thousands of volumes. For printed books are never compared on equal terms with written codices. For printing very often neglects orthography and the other ornaments of books; writing, however, is a matter of greater diligence."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0005"},"text":"Chapter VIII."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0006:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0006:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0010-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0010-0006"},"text":"But in order that the devout scribe may usefully fulfill his office, and may render the books that he writes adorned with beautiful grace, let him observe most diligently the precepts of orthography; without these, books, however useful, are rendered ugly and contemptible. On this matter abundant instructions are found in the old codices of the authors, over which it is not the business of the present time to linger any longer. The examples of learned men are also precepts of diligence for new scribes. Let us inspect the most ancient volumes that learned scribes wrote, and from imitation of them take the advantage of our art. Among them there were some who applied exact diligence in writing, so that they wrote not only correctly but also skillfully, distinguishing the volumes with signs, cola, and figures in beautiful variety, so that by the sight alone you seem to be invited to the reading of them. Although among the ancients unskilled scribes disfigured their codices, since they either did not know, or did not wish to understand, how to write well. But you should know that not the negligence of the unskilled, but the [unclear] of the learned, which they also [unclear], is set before you to be imitated. In antiquity they did not admit scribes indiscriminately, but only the learned and educated, who from their skill in signs were also called notaries. They wrote volumes not only beautiful but also corrected, with wondrous subtlety. These I should like you to imitate, because it is worthy and just that most holy Scripture, brought forth from the mouth of God for our edification,"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0011-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0011:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0011","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0011-0001"},"text":"and that it be written both correctly and elegantly. What shall I say about certain scribes of this age, who, although for the most part they understand what they are writing, are so lazy and idle that they are unwilling to apply any diligence at all to the writings? These are corrupters of the correctness of the Scriptures, falsifiers of the bulls of the pontiff Jesus Christ, foolish and perverse messengers: for when they write the will of God, they ought to announce it with fear and concern; on the contrary, they handle it negligently and corruptly."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0011-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0011:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0011","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0011-0002"},"text":"If, according to the statutes of the canons, he who falsifies the letters of the pope is excommunicated, with what penalty should he be punished who corrupts the Scriptures of God? Just as a devout and diligent scribe renders great fruit in the Church of God by writing, so the idle and negligent one brings very great losses upon it. For when he corrupts the Scriptures he announces false things to the Church as true; he hinders readers from holy study; he takes away understanding; he overturns the order of teaching. I have said these things against those who abuse the gift of understanding bestowed on them, and who, from laziness or negligence, are not ashamed to corrupt the holy Scriptures by writing them falsely. But against those who are less learned, and earnestly do what they can, so harsh a judgment is not to be brought. For no one sins unwillingly. Therefore, when a devout scribe has carefully copied a book, let him compare it again with the exemplar; wherever he has erred, let him correct it by careful emendation. By doing this, the scribe himself is found suitable and faithful, and the book acceptable in its proper order. If it can be done, let books be adorned with fair decoration, so that even by their appearance they may draw those who look at them to reading. For we know that the ancients took great care for this: that outward beauty should commend the inner beauty of books. For Holy Scripture is most worthy of every ornament. Yet care must be taken that the ornament itself not be over-elaborate, lest we put beauty before correctness; for where propriety is admitted, curiosity is forbidden. At the same time, let us not be marked by the saying of Jerome, with which he reproves the unskilled, who prefer to have beautiful books rather than corrected ones. And concerning a multitude of books, a similar judgment will have to be applied."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0012-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0012-0001"},"text":"Concerning those who cannot write. Chapter IX."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0012-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0012-0002"},"text":"But if any brothers should be so untrained and dull that they know absolutely nothing of writing, we advise first of all that they learn, for nothing is so difficult that it does not yield to good will. But if they are wholly unable to learn this most sacred art, we shall give ready counsel, lest they be altogether deprived of the fruit of so holy a work."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0012-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0012-0003"},"text":"Therefore assist the scribes in other things, if you yourselves cannot devote yourselves to writing volumes. Let one correct what another has written; let another adorn in red what the former has emended; let this one divide it with marks and figures; let that one glue and bind the codex with boards. You will fit the boards; that one the leather; let another prepare the plates for ornament. Let no service be lacking here by which the devoted scribe, relieved, may be able to continue his office. In short, many things pertain to the practice of writing, each of which individuals can prepare."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0012-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0012-0004"},"text":"Let one cut the parchment, another clean it; let a third make it ready for the scribes by ruling lines; let another supply ink, another pens. For you always have means by which you ought to support your scribes. Nor should it displease you if a useful scribe, by the abbot’s judgment, is sometimes relieved from conventual burdens."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0012-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0012-0005"},"text":"I am addressing you, brothers, who for some reason are hindered and cannot write; to you I have set forth these teachings with special intent. Look at the distinguished monks of our order in former times, such as the contemporaries of Bede, Rabanus, Haimo, and the other venerable abbots: with what great cheerfulness they served the scribes. For, burning with an incredible love of the Scriptures, they considered themselves blessed and happy if they had been able to help their teachers and scribes in anything. This zeal of the monks, together with holiness of morals, once magnificently exalted our venerable order; when it failed, the excellence of the order collapsed and perished. Now therefore, brothers, for the salvation of your souls and of the order, devote yourselves fervently to the sacred writings, so that with joy you may be able to reach those who laudably preceded you in this. Let no one"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0013-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0013-0001"},"text":"[unclear] of writing dare to excuse himself, who desires to escape the penalty of the idle. If you cannot write elegantly, write as you are able; only take care of this, that you do not corrupt the sense of the Scriptures by your negligence. For I would rather have a corrected codex than a beautiful one, a meager one than none. Do not say, therefore, “Because I do not know how to write well, I am therefore excused”; but write as you can, and nothing more is required of you."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0013-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0013-0002"},"text":"On the material that they should write. Chapter 10."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0013-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0013-0003"},"text":"But if it is asked what sorts of materials monks ought to write, we answer briefly: such as the obedience of their superiors enjoins. For it lies in the judgment of the abbot or prior what he wishes to enjoin each one to write. Yet they should take care not to assign to weak brothers for writing such materials from whose reading they may become weaker. For it is not expedient that all materials be read by everyone. But if some such thing must be written, let it be assigned to stronger and learned brothers, who know how to suck honey from the rock and oil from the hardest stone. The books of the holy fathers, however, by which they explained the divine Scriptures, are to be written by monks with particular zeal, because from knowledge of them they are more richly instructed toward understanding the mysteries of God. But also the treatises of the same fathers which are suitable for arousing devotion are to be written by our scribes with special intention. And in general all books which serve either for establishing good morals or for the integrity of the orthodox faith are to be acquired for the studies of monks. Nor do we reject codices of secular letters; indeed we value them, since knowledge of them is very necessary to us for understanding the holy Scriptures. The ancient monks, not ignorant of this, were instructed in all the disciplines of secular literature. Four things, moreover, must be known by monks, so far as their state is concerned, without knowledge of which ecclesiastical unity could not long subsist in its strength: theology, music, laws, and the art of computus. To those who understand, the reasons for each are plain; we have set them out more fully in another place."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0013-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0013-0004"},"text":"And concerning these things too our scribes had to be admonished, lest they regard the sciences of secular letters as useless. Therefore let the providence of the abbot provide for each, according to his capacity, what he should write. But if abbots immerse themselves in the cares of secular affairs, as many do, and neglect books, the monks should nevertheless continue the pursuit of writing, nor should anyone wish to lose his own progress because of the negligence of abbots. In this case let a solicitous prior make up for the deficiency of a sluggish abbot, and assign to the brothers suitable materials for writing. For I know several distinguished monasteries whose priors, notwithstanding the abbots’ sloth, have furnished most splendid libraries. Therefore if the brothers are free to write, let each choose for himself individual teachers whose volumes they may write: one Origen, another Basil, another Augustine, another Jerome, and so on with the rest, according to each one’s inclination, because from this they very often make greater progress in sacred study. But if they are not free, let them know that obedience to the prelate is rightly to be preferred to their own choice. The brother scribes too, who wish to make progress in the study of the divine Scriptures, should make for themselves little books which they call rapiaria, so that when in writing they run through the books of the holy fathers, if they find anything worthy of memory, they may gather it after the example of the most sagacious bee; and, heaping up useful sentences like fragrant flowers in the beehive of their own volume, they may have them ready, so that at the opportune time they may know how to bring forth a suitable discourse. The venerable monk Bede is read to have done this; Rabanus the abbot, Bonaventure the cardinal, and very many other most learned men are remembered to have practiced this. For one who keeps this order of learning makes much progress toward the understanding of sacred Scripture. But let him take care not to prefer private study to the usefulness of very many; that is, by continually lingering over his own collections, let him not pass by the good of obedience. For studies that resist the laws of obedience will not prosper. Let him hold the mean in each respect, lest he fail by writing too much, or, having leisure for himself, place obedience and charity after his own advantages."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0001"},"text":"While the damp leaves are drying, or when the head, wearied from labor, trembles, let him, as a kind of solace, keep watch over his collections. But also on feast days, when he is free from prayers, let him attend to such things."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0002"},"text":"Whether it is permitted for monks to write on feast days. Chapter XI."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0003"},"text":"Now, the occasion having been given by the preceding matters, it is asked whether it is lawful for monks to write on feast days, on which in the law they are commanded to abstain from servile works. We read that this question was once put by certain persons to John, formerly chancellor of Paris, a most learned man; and in his book On the Praise of Scribes, after developing it through twelve considerations, he finally concludes thus, saying: “Nothing prevents one from writing books or short treatises or little books of devotion on feast days, provided moderation is observed, such as a wise man will judge proper in this work; and this assuredly is not to be deemed servile, but sometimes tends more to the honor of the Church than the multiplication of vocal prayer, indeed than the unbecoming repetition of masses in some cases.” Thus he."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0004"},"text":"But we, adding this with humility, say that a monk placed under obedience, if at the command of his prelate he writes useful materials on feast days, should fear nothing, because the obedience of one writing is better than the sacrifices of his own will. Yet on this occasion let him not neglect those things to which he is bound by the institution of the feast, such as celebrating or hearing Mass and duly performing the canonical hours. Therefore he does well who writes books on feast days, provided the due circumstances are carefully observed. But he who can fittingly persist in divine contemplation is believed to hold a more excellent degree, unless the merit of obedience rightly intervenes. For obedience adds increase to good works, and from equal things makes better ones. Since, then, we are weak men and less fit for contemplation, it is better to make good this loss by writing than to be occupied, as commonly happens, with useless conversations. Since we also cannot always read or pray, there is nothing after these by which we may occupy ourselves more usefully than if we devote our effort, with devotion, to writing books. By this we not only instruct ourselves, but also prepare material for edification for those who will come long after us. The scribe teaches good things by writing no less than the preacher teaches holy things by preaching. And what is permitted to the latter, who forbids to the former?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0005"},"text":"And, as we have already said, studious brothers, especially on feast days, consulting their devotions, may confidently write their little commonplace books, unless, as has been said, obedience commands them to do something else. In all these matters, however, the intention of the one commanding must be made clear, and the devotion of the one writing must also be regulated. But those who write anything for payment, however useful the material may be, are excluded from this liberty and shall cease from work on feast days, because in intention they serve earthly gains; and therefore it is judged a servile work, unless perhaps some other regard of piety intervenes, which rarely happens."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0006"},"text":"On the distinction between scribes and the names of small works. Chapter XII."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0007","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0007"},"text":"Among the ancients scribes were known by a twofold name. The first were called antiquarii, because they wrote only old things, taking their name from their office. The second were called librarii, who wrote both new things and old. When antiquarii wrote, they used old letters as well; librarii, however, used new ones. Librarii are so called from liber, that is, the inner bark which adheres to the wood, because before the use of paper or parchment, volumes were put together from the bark of trees, just as traces are still sometimes found today in the very oldest libraries."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0014-0008","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0014-0008"},"text":"Now, for the instruction of the devout scribe, it is pleasing to describe a little the variety of small works, as they are related by [Rabanus?], once a most skilled man, because knowledge of them will not be useless to the brothers, so that they may know how they ought to name each kind of small work. There are, therefore, three kinds of small works. The first kind are called excerpta, which the Greeks call scholia, in which those things that seem"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0015-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0015-0001"},"text":"obscure or difficult matters are touched upon summarily and briefly."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0002:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0002:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0015-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0015-0002"},"text":"The second kind is homilies, which we call a “word,” and they are delivered to the people. The third kind is tomes, which we call books or volumes. Homilies are for the common people; tomes, that is, books, are of a more substantial disputation. A dialogue is a conference of two persons, from dia and logos, which is “the speech of two.” A treatise is the manifold exposition of a single subject. Commentaries are so called as if “comments”; for they are interpretations: comments on law, comments on the Gospel. An apologetic is a book of excuse, in which certain persons are accustomed to answer accusers. A panegyric, that is, laudatory, is a licentious and wanton kind of speaking, in praises of kings and princes; in composing it men flatter with many lies. A prologue is a preface before a book, as the prologue of blessed Jerome on Genesis. A proem is the beginning of a speech or work, and is often taken for a preface. A simperasma is the conclusion of some work, and in our usage it is treated as of the third declension, like dogma. Biblos, that is, a codex, is a book of many books, as the codex of the Bible, which contains many books. A book is a partial treatise divided by itself, or a single one, as one book of Augustine on penance, or four on Christian doctrine, etc. A volume is a book, so called from rolling, as volumes of the law, volumes of the prophets. Books of fasti are those in which kings and consuls are written, because they were made from the bark of those same [unclear], or because they flutter in a codex after the manner of leaves. Verses are so called from turning, because the ancients wrote as [unclear] of trees were named: for first they led the stylus to the right, then they turned back from below and again wrote toward the left. A draft-sheet, sceda scede, is what is still being corrected and has not yet been reduced to a fair copy; for this we say “conceptions,” as if unpolished materials. The instruments of a scribe, moreover, are the reed and the pen."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0015-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0015-0003"},"text":"On Establishing Scribes in Monasteries."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0015-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0015-0004"},"text":"Chapter 14."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0005:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-11","html_id":"p-en-0015-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0015-0005"},"text":"Since, as we have said above, no craft is so fitting for the profession of monks as the office of writing, for the reason that many weak and feeble persons, not to say untrained ones, are not suited to higher exercises. For it has not been granted to all always to devote themselves to contemplation or prayer, or to instruct others by preaching. There are indeed some idle and lazy men who excuse themselves, indeed boast, saying: “I do not know how to write.” If you do not know, learn; otherwise, he who does not labor, let him not eat. Ignorance does not excuse you from the duty, when, easily conquerable as it is, you neglect to overcome it. If only good will were in you, assiduity would quickly provide the art of writing. Therefore, to remove the excuses of the lazy, it seems advisable and very profitable that abbots should have monks instructed in the art of writing, either by their own monks or by others, because from this both the material of excuse is taken away from the lazy, and very great usefulness is produced from it. For idleness is an enemy of the soul, and desires kill the lazy man. But if anyone is lazy or malicious, so that he will by no means consent to write, he must be afflicted with other labors and abstinences until he asks as a consolation for what he previously despised. Yet let the abbot be cautious in all things, and let the arduous things always be preceded by charity. The demons will hate this discipline greatly, knowing that through its ministry the salvation of many is procured. Therefore they strive with every effort to draw monks back from its office, and sometimes to bring them so far that many, resisting their prelates even to the crime of disobedience, fall into a horrible calamity. We have already known very many such men, disobedient to their superiors, who, so that they might not be able to write, at the devil’s persuasion became cruel to themselves and fell into extreme madness. But let us omit these things, lest they harm weak readers more than they profit them. No one has a legitimate excuse when the defect consists in will alone. For those who wish to learn will always find suitable instructions, or from [unclear]."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0016-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0016-0001"},"text":"or to be instructed by others who know, or from ancient books. The practice of writing is also of great use for progress, because if this art is long interrupted, it is gradually unlearned. For no discipline, however celebrated, is retained for long without practice. Practice, indeed, is the strength of an art. Let monks who do not wish to write read the book of blessed Augustine On the Work of Monks, and let him blush for his sloth who lives idly contrary to the decrees of the fathers. Scripture says: “Every idle man is in desires.” Why? Because, while the mind is not bent outwardly by exercise to useful work, being empty within it is defiled by unclean thoughts. Fullness of bread and idleness led the Sodomites to eternal destruction. Idleness is the mother and wellspring of all vices, and the destruction of all virtues. For it spends acceptable time fruitlessly and shamefully; it carries away the supports of virtues; it suggests lust; it diminishes strength; it kills the soul. Therefore flee idleness, you who desire to arrive at eternal life, which has been promised not to the idle but to those who labor."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0016-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0016-0002"},"text":"And this sloth is especially reprehensible in monks, who are called not from labor to idleness, but from idleness to labor. But if you say to me, “I cannot write; I cannot remain in the cell through the whole day; I will gladly go to exterior labors; I will by no means refuse to dig or carry stones, provided only that I do not suffer distress in those things which are wholly contrary to me,” I shall answer briefly: it is not a good comparison which withdraws from a better progress. It is better to write than to dig, to read sacred books than to carry stones, unless obedience or piety, which has force in all things, has chosen to intervene. If you cannot write, if you cannot remain alone in the cell, why did you wish to come to the monastery, when you were not going to live as a monk? For to live in a cenobium not as a monk is to bind oneself to damnation by the sentence of one’s own mouth. For a monk, according to the interpretation of his name, is commanded to sit alone in the cenobium, so that through silence he may be separated from the cares of the world. Therefore, if you refuse to be what you promised, you lie to God as a transgressor of your vow. But to lie to God is to condemn oneself by one’s own mouth. You vowed the conversion of your ways according to the Rule of Saint Benedict, which commands monks to labor to such a degree that it denied that idle monks are monks."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0016-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0016-0003"},"text":"But by the fact that you desire to be occupied with exterior labors, you show that you are empty of interior exercise. For whichever of the monks these labors delight, they must necessarily abandon the interior ones. You are being led, I say, to exterior labors by a diabolical impulse, which knows that the interior ones are contrary to itself. If you were a true monk, you would not abhor the secrecy of the cell, which is especially fitting to your honor. In our age there is not such devotion among monks that, after the example of the ancients, they can make progress in works of agriculture. These labors destroy devotion more than they build it up. For as soon as one has come to conversations, no speech of edification, or scarcely any, is brought forth; rather, mouths are opened most eagerly to the business of the world. Pleasant discussion is held about the wars of kings, the conflicts of princes, the pomps of the age; no guard at all is applied to silence."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0016-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0016-0004"},"text":"Therefore, freed from these labors as from certain bonds of distractions, and turning the mind to interior things, let us love the secrecy of the cell, let us apply ourselves more often to prayer and reading, let us write the books of the holy fathers with devotion, let us seek foods that feed the soul, since by our labors we cannot nourish our bodies. Let him who does not know how to write learn from others who know, and let him subject his own will to obedience if he desires to escape the penalty of those who eat idly. For the devout brother will always find writers by whom he may be instructed. And because a good will deserves grace, so that it may always advance by pious increases, it is more frequently to be honored with suitable stipends. Therefore, when the abbot has seen that his brothers are ready to obey and willing and cheerful in writing, let him pursue them with greater kindness, honor them with fitting favors, and sometimes lighten the burdens of the others. And because such devout brothers, on account of obedience and love of the Scriptures, neglect themselves, let the abbot provide for them in all necessities more abundantly than for the others, who scorn to be such and to be found such. For by doing this he will both preserve the good in holy zeal and provoke others to imitate them. Yet under pretext of this opinion let him not transgress the paths [of the Rule?]."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0001"},"text":"Whether it is commendable in monasteries to have many books. Chapter 14."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0002"},"text":"There are some who reproach lovers of books for their multitude, as if for excess, saying that few books are sufficient for the formation of a good life: books that teach us to flee vices and love virtues. For they say to those whom they see to love books: Why do you burden yourselves with such a multitude of books, when you cannot read all those you have? For it is better to have a few books and read them than to pass by many stored up in a library without reading them."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0003"},"text":"To these we reply briefly. If it is blameworthy to have many volumes, since a few could suffice for saving knowledge, let them also admit that it was evil for the holy fathers to have written so many and almost innumerable books. Why did Origen publish six thousand books, why Augustine a thousand, why Ambrose two hundred, why Jerome three hundred, when a few suffice for the formation of a good life? Or perhaps it is permitted to write many, but not to possess them? To what purpose, then, are they written, if it is not permitted to have them? If it is evil to buy many books, why did the holy fathers in former times apply such diligence in collecting and writing them? Are you so foolish that, asserting good to be evil and evil good, while you bark without distinction against lovers of books, you do not fear also to speak against the most holy fathers, whose imitators you reproach, accusing those fathers as though they had proceeded badly? If it is evil to imitate, how will it be good to have gone before? But because you cannot justly reproach the zeal of the saints, if you are wise, cease tearing at their imitators. For if it was good for them, it will not be evil for these."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0004"},"text":"Behold, you gather gold and silver; you join field to field, and you do not judge it evil. But you say: To collect money for the present necessity of the brothers belongs to prudence, and to store it up for the future belongs to just reason. But to buy so many innumerable books belongs not to providence but to curiosity. O emperor of covetousness, O prince of avarice: what honesty does your sloth not attack? What does your savage greed not gnaw away? That you may revile lovers of sacred knowledge, you commend avarice. Out of the abundance of your heart your mouth speaks, and your speech testifies that you are an adversary of wisdom. It is not prudence, as you pretend, but avarice; not the necessity of the brothers, but desire for gold. You have hated discipline and have cast the words of the Lord behind your back, and as though you were glorying in distinguished justice. But let these things pass, to come forth in public at another time."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0005"},"text":"All books of the good arts, however, are good, especially those that conduce to the understanding of sacred Scripture. Therefore it is not evil to have good books, unless prohibition makes it unlawful. But no commandment is found that forbids a multitude of books. Why then do you insult us over an abundance of books? Why do you condemn a holy and necessary study in the Church? It is good to have dared to say steadfastly that there should be both many and good books in a monastery, by which the zeal of the brothers may be advanced, even if they are not able to read them all. Nor should the authorities of secular writers be kept out of monks’ libraries; without knowledge of them, I do not think anyone perfectly understands the divine books."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0006"},"text":"For if we examine the libraries of the ancient fathers of our order, such as Bede in England, Rabanus in Fulda, Haymo in Hirschfeld, Peter in Vivarium, Notker at Saint Gall, Guimund at Saint-Leufroy, Sigebert in Gembloux, Heriger also at Lobbes, and other most learned and venerable fathers who shone in knowledge and holiness in the Church of God, we shall find an abundance of books in every faculty, in every science, in every doctrine. This we can also easily recognize from their little works, since they show that they were skilled in all literature, both divine and human. To imitate the examples of these men is honorable and useful for monks."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0017-0007","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0017-0007"},"text":"Moreover, there is nothing in this life so pious, so wholesome, so holy, that an evil will cannot abuse it. Thus it will also be able to happen with a multitude of books, if the cause is not love of God and of the Scriptures, but curiosity or pride. Therefore let him who is watchful in collecting volumes take heed that his appetite not be set upon vanity. Let him strive to direct his intention to the proper end, if he does not wish to stray from the good."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0018-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0018-0001"},"text":"On the custody and cleanliness to be maintained for books. Chapter XV."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0018-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0018-0002"},"text":"Since the greatest treasure of the Church is the abundance of writings, whoever neglects to guard holy books diligently does injury to the Church. For books are the weapons with which she fortifies herself against heretics; whoever allows them either to be dispersed or to perish is proved to love the Church too little. If he loved her as he ought, he would by no means permit her to be stripped of her own weapons. Therefore we earnestly exhort lovers of books to guard the library carefully, or to entrust it to such librarians as will allow nothing to be stolen from it. From libraries the discipline of monks is easily known, and from their books it can quickly be observed what they study. If I come to your house, there is no need for me to ask you what you study: your volumes will give testimony concerning your actions. Your codices are honored. If you neglect them, they will neglect you; if you despise them, they will despise you. Finally, “Those who despise me,” says the wisdom of God, which is recognized in books, “shall be without honor.” If your volumes fly about torn on the benches, if they are covered with dust, if they are stained within, if they are disordered without, they will proclaim you unlearned and a hypocrite, even if you are regarded as a doctor. How will you be able to love learning, if you despise and neglect the books that instruct you?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0018-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0018-0003"},"text":"Just as wisdom loves and inhabits the dwelling-place of a pure heart, so the lover of wisdom loves the cleanliness and adornment of books. For whoever tears the house of another shows that he does not revere the one who dwells in it. And whoever handles books of divine or human writings negligently and filthily proves that he does not love the knowledge contained in them. Therefore let our Philobiblos devote the utmost zeal to the custody and adornment of books; let him arrange the books at the desk according to their subjects or dignities, so that studious brothers may more quickly be able to find what they seek. Let him not think that any subject is to be cast out of his library, except the dogmas of heretics, because no book is so slight that it cannot be useful for some purpose. Let the library be under secure custody, and let it not lie open indiscriminately to everyone, but only to those whom love and study of the Scriptures recommend. For we have known many losses inflicted on libraries because they lay open without discrimination to all. Nor are books to be readily sent out from their places, except under pledge and sure confidence. Inventories of all the books of libraries should be kept, so that nothing can be carried off or lost."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0018-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0018-0004"},"text":"Moreover, let our zealous supporter of useful disciplines sometimes visit the books that he loves, and let him examine most diligently how rightly they are kept. Finally, let him not be sparing and envious in communicating volumes from the library to studious men, because a hidden treasure and concealed wisdom are proved to be as if useless. Therefore, whenever he is asked for volumes to be copied out, let him willingly lend them to students, yet under the sure caution of a pledge, so that he may both guard his own treasure for the monastery and make others rich without any diminution of it. But whoever receives books under pledge to be copied out should take diligent care that he neither soil nor tear them; but, according to the sentence, while they receive a rule for their studies, let them take care not to stain or destroy them, but, reading with devotion and purity, let them keep them unstained. But if anyone handles codices negligently and filthily, let him be punished as a sacrilegious person and a squanderer of the monastery’s property, so that his correction may become an example to the rest. But why have we lingered with many words over the custody of books? Those who love them undoubtedly care for and preserve them, even if we are silent; and we cannot persuade the unskilled of this in vain. For fools despise the studies of the learned and do not love volumes unless they conform to their own vanities. Leaving these things aside, therefore, let us proceed to an exhortation of our own men, who both love and read books."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0001"},"text":"Exhortation to the Study and Love of the Scriptures"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0002"},"text":"Chapter 16"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0003:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0003:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0003"},"text":"Now therefore, dearest brothers, receive our exhortation with goodwill, and diligently prepare yourselves for writing books of sacred doctrine. For from those things which we have set forth in commendation of writings, you perceive what you ought to think about such an office. Therefore do not neglect so great a good; do not cease from the study of writing. For writing is what in a certain way makes you immortal, and survivors even after death. Let individuals do what they will; let them glory in an office [unclear]; they quickly come to [unclear]; but your memory, from the books which you write, will pass with glory to posterity."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0004"},"text":"Nor do we say that you ought to write with this intention, since this can happen apart from intention. Far be such foolish desire from a holy work: that it should covet empty fame as the reward for labor. But if you wish to imprint your names on the books written by you, it must be done with this intention: that you aim to summon posterity either to intercession or to imitation. For with such a view you can safely and lawfully subscribe title-headings of your names to your books."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0005"},"text":"It is also not undeservedly believed that for you, O venerable writers, who write useful things from a good intention, accidental merit comes to your aid after death, whenever someone is summoned to repentance by your writing. You poor men have nothing from which you can give alms, nor do you possess anything by which you might validate a testament for your remembrance. Hear therefore my counsel, lest you depart from this life without a notable testament. Write with diligence the books and little works of the holy fathers, and you will have made a glorious testament. For if a small alms of bread and water so effectively extinguishes sin, what will so great a piety of writers not be able to do?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0006","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0006"},"text":"If he who here feeds the poor who are subject to death will be richly rewarded before God, with how great a reward must you be endowed, who feed immortal souls? For spiritual gifts are rightly preferred to carnal ones. May those hands live and rest happily, which by their labors wrote out for us so many volumes of the holy fathers. Blessed are the labors of the venerable writer, by which the mother Church of the faithful is so magnificently sustained. May their memory be with the Most High, and may the names of the writers remain written without end in the book of life. May the Lord render to them the inestimable reward of their labors, and may they never be separated from his sight. May they drink there from the fountains of the Savior, who by their offices offered us the drink of salvation. May they live, live, and live happily forever, who handed down to us such timely counsels for living well."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0007","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0007"},"text":"Make for yourselves also testaments of this kind of holiness, which will never perish through any oblivion. Write books now while you live, and after death you will gather abundant fruit. Let no labor frighten you away from writing; let no pleasure hinder you. It will conduce more to your salvation to write by renewing the volumes of the saints than to enrich the poor with perishable riches. And indeed that is not so much difficult for you as impossible. Let worldly men follow their own studies; let dissolute monks be idle; let foolish abbots take delight in horses; let some wanderers sport with the birds of heaven; let others run about with hunting dogs. You, meditating on the law of the Lord, attend to sacred letters, and by your labors make provision for the Church in the future."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0019-0008","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0019-0008"},"text":"Although very many thirst without measure for gold, although they join field to field, although they build houses destined to fall high into the air, know that the fame of your name rests in higher things, for whom it is not expedient to think similar thoughts about the world. You are higher than the world; do not disgracefully submit yourselves to what is lower. Strongly despise what you cannot love without fault. Write the books of the saints, and look upon them to be read with devotion, because nothing profits you so much for contempt of the world as if with love you devote study to the Scriptures."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0020:p-0001:annotation-001","trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0020:p-0001:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0020-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0020:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0020","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0020-0001"},"text":"This indeed is the most holy knowledge. It is a lamp to our feet, lest on this road full of darkness by which we walk we stumble; it is the companion of our journey, lest we go astray. This is set before the minds of the faithful as a mirror, so that the inner face may be seen clearly. For just as we behold the blemishes of our face in a material mirror, so in sacred Scripture we see the negligences of our actions. For it corrects us when we transgress, pricks us when we grow sluggish, rouses us when we are negligent, instructs us when we are ignorant. Holy Scripture is known to confer on us a great and incredible good, if it is read attentively with humble devotion. For it enlightens our understanding for instruction, draws the mind away from the vanities of the world, and reforms it in the love of God. Often, being drawn away by familiarity with it, we are separated from the desires of the world to such a degree that we seem to ourselves not to be in the world. And the longer we abide in love of it, the less we think about the changefulness of the age. For true joy, which takes its strength from the sole truth, which is God, despises both the pleasant and the harsh things of this world as dung. For the happiness of this world, too intensely pondered, harms the servants of God. But no greater or more wholesome joy is acquired in this life than if the mind, well conscious of itself, is occupied with love in the sacred writings. It gladdens the mind of man with inestimable joy; while it is examined with piety by its lover, the eye of the heart is sweetly lulled in contemplation of heavenly things. Nothing separates a monk so much from the love of this world as if he devotes his mind to sacred readings with desire at every time. For holy blessings are contained in the divine Scriptures; when we run through them in attentive reading, we most sweetly perceive the force of divine love. I have not experienced so powerful a burning of the love of God as the loving knowledge of the holy Scriptures. Love it, and it will exalt you before God and men, and together with it you will possess all good things. For he who truly holds it possesses all things. For it is the teacher of the discipline of God, and has knowledge friendly to him. Now therefore, brothers, hear me, and cultivate this mother of beautiful love with all devotion, so that through its service you may deserve to be brought to the throne of glory of the great God. For in the court of the heavenly emperor this mother is very well known, like a queen. Let us consider, O brothers, the most reverend monks of our order, who once burned with great desire for the holy Scriptures; and let us imitate their holy studies as much as we can, so that we too may deserve to come to the glory which, by the Lord’s bounty, they attained through learning and holiness. Let no one say in his own excuse, “I cannot advance without a teacher,” since teachers can always be found for those who are disposed. Purge the [unclear] of your race, and God will cause the wheat of the Scriptures to be brought in. For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee what is feigned, nor will it dwell in a body subject to sins. Therefore let the house of conscience be cleansed, so that it may become a worthy dwelling of the Scriptures, because the monk who wishes to learn the sacred Scriptures usefully must begin from the correction of morals. Nor ought you to abandon the monastery for the sake of study, because you can find at home the means by which you may advance. For we know that many very learned monks once shone in our order, whom we know to have studied only in monasteries. Bede, priest and monk, most skilled in every respect, was entrusted at the age of seven to a monastery, in which he drew forth whatever he learned of the Scriptures. Among others his most learned pupils were Alcuin, afterward teacher of Charles the Great; Claudius; and John Scotus, monks excelling in every doctrine, both divine and secular, instructed in Greek and Latin speech, of whom many distinguished little works survive. Rabanus, abbot and archbishop of Mainz, while still almost a boy, was entrusted to the monastery of Fulda; how much he advanced in every branch of knowledge his volumes bear witness. Yet the abbot of Fulda sent him from among his own monks to Francia for the sake of study, to Abbot Alcuin, of whom we have already made mention, under whose teaching he persevered for many years in the monastery. Strabus, monk of Fulda, is said to have been a disciple and scribe of Abbot Rabanus; he, having been given to the monastery as a youth, shone forth as an outstanding teacher. So Haymo; so Notger; so Hermannus Contractus; so other monks almost innumerable [unclear]."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0021-0001","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0021-0001"},"text":"monks were considered outstanding teachers, who, living humbly under the Rule of Saint Benedict, had monasteries as their schools. Nor do we say that teachers were lacking to those who were regarded as instructors of others. They certainly had teachers, but monks, and companions in the regular life, who instructed them no less by life than by doctrine. We too might perhaps find teachers, if we were willing to be disciples. For unless humility and love of the Scriptures agree with one another, the studies of monks neither benefit the order nor make progress."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0021-0002","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0021-0002"},"text":"For love of the Scriptures without humility destroys the discipline of the regular life; humility without love does not attain to knowledge of them. Therefore whoever desires to become learned in a monastery should preserve these two things inviolate. Let us imitate the holy fathers, applying themselves to the divine Scriptures with humble love; and what divine grace bestowed on them, it will not deny to us as we pray and read diligently. For the more constant each person has been in reading, the richer the fruit he receives from them."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0021-0003","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0021-0003"},"text":"But the fruit that we seek in the sacred Scriptures is the love of God and neighbor, and the knowledge of our most gracious Savior."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0021-0004","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0021-0004"},"text":"The desired end is auspiciously placed upon this little work, elegant beyond measure, by Friedberg, the Mainz printer, in the year of the Virgin birth 1493."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-16","html_id":"p-en-0021-0005","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium.html#p-en-0021-0005"},"text":"Of the monastery of Chiemsee."}],"schema_version":"1.0","segments":[{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-1","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0001","latin":"Inc. c. a.\n158 #4\n\n4° Inc.c.a.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTHECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ c̄a.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTHECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ c̄i.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ ci.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ ci.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ ci.\n1138.\nTrithemius\nBIBLIOTECA\nREGIA\nMONACENSIS,\nJn̄ ci.\n1138.\nTrithemius\n\nDn̄e . 1138.\nDe laude scriptoꝝ pulcher-\nrimus tractatus dn̄i Iohā-\nnis tritemij abbatis Spanhemensis sancti\nbenedicti de obseruātia burkfeldeñ ad Gerlacū ab¬\nbatem tuiciensem.\nMonasterij Schyrens.\nV.7.\n\nS. A.\nNim de Eir\nin paelmos\n[illegible: damaged paper at top left corner]\n\nIntipit epistola Iohannis\ntritemij abbatis spanbemensis. ad dn̄m Gerlacū abbatē\ntuiciensis cenobij.\n\nUEnerabili et amantissimo patri dño Gern\n\nlaco de breitbach abbati tuicienisi. ordinis\nsancti benedicti: frater Iohānes de tritten\n\nhem. vocatus abbas in spanhem: eiusdem\nordinis. salutē et caritatē. Cum nuper de\n\nannali capło Erffordie celebrato simul re¬\n\nuertentes. de maiestate diuinarū scripturaꝝ varia iuuicē\n\ntractaremus: et ꝑ earū splendorē nostrā religionē quon¬\n\ndā gloriosam fuisse diceremus: petisti a me cū multa ca¬\n\nritatis instatīa. ut tibi aliquid scriberē: quo tuos ad amo\n\nrem scribendi subditos facilius ꝓuocares. Putabas em̄\n\nid multis ꝓfuturū: et nr̄is p̄cipue cōmendandum Tuis\n\nitaqꝫ p̄cibus humiliter p̄bens assensum. ꝓmisi: qđ inge¬\n\nnij mei vires excedere nō ignoraui: de adiutorio altissimi\net fraterna caritate sumens fiduciam: quibus in hac vita\ncōtime cupimus armari Unde mox ut michi de occu¬\n\npacōnibus meis paululū licuit respirare mentē fidei: ma\n\nnum apposui carthis: et hūc quē cernis modicū tracta¬\n\ntulū de laude scriptorū tuis orationibus adiuutus ordi¬\nnaui In quo si minus aliquid feci qͣ debui curis meis\ndiuersis noueris imputandū: quibus plerūqꝫ intantum\noccupor: ut vix michi liceat interceptis vicibus ad opta¬\nta studia remearc Suscipiat igit̉ caritas tua pater vene\nrande librū quē petuit legat. examinet: et si iudicauerit\ndignum. ad alioꝝ quoqꝫ fratrū noticiā venire patiatur.\nPotest em̄ fieri: ut eius lectione fratres ad amorē scrip¬\nture incitentur Tu autē cepta via progredere: scripturis\nsanctis ardenter incumbe tuosqꝫ fratres ut idem faciāt.\nmodis om̄ibus exhortare Intucantur sanctū illū et vene\nrabilē virū Rupertū vestri tuiciensis cenobij quondā aba\nbatem qui vel solus ad exemplū studendi eis potest suffi\ncere Qui cū singulari desiderio diuinas scripturas tum\n\n2 a ij","segment":1,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"1","number":1},{"label":"2","number":2},{"label":"3","number":3},{"label":"4","number":4},{"label":"5","number":5},{"label":"6","number":6},{"label":"7","number":7},{"label":"8","number":8}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-2","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0002","latin":"legendo tum oꝛando ꝑcurreret: per visionē spiritu sancto\ndocente.tantū in eis meruit ꝓficere: ut similē in exponen\ndis scripturā archanis suo tēpore nō habereti? ¶ Si ad\neius mensura nō possumus studendo ꝑtingere:nunquid\na studijs sanctis ꝓpterea debemus cessare? Nūquid ex-\ncellentia ceteroꝝ.nos ab accessu sacre lectionis arcebit?\nAbsit.Si nō possumus augustinū imitari.siue gregoriū:\neos saltem imitemur: quoꝝ doctrina nouimus ab alijs\nemanaffe.Unusquisqƺ autē propriū donū habet ex deo:\nalius sic.alius vero sic.Hoc tantū caueamus:ne in agro\ndn̄ico sine fructu bonoꝝ studioꝛum steriles simus.Vale\nnostri memor.Anno dn̄i M.cccc.xcij.\nSequuntur capitula p̃sentis\noperis ꝺe laude scriptoꝝ.\nExordiū libri tractat ꝺe laude scriptoꝝ Primū ij.\nCommendatio vtilitatis sacre scripture.iij.\nDe veterū diligentia et amoꝛe ad libros iiij.\nQuantā diligentiā fecerint in scribendo v.\nQuā cõueniens fit monachis scribere vi.\nQuā bonū et vtile fit eis si scribant vj.\nNe ꝓpter impressura se a scribendo excusent vij.\nDe orthographia et modo scribendi viij.\nDe his qͥ haud sciūt scribere.quid faciant ix.\nQuales materias monachi debeāt scribere x.\nUtrum ꝺiebus festis liceat scribere xi.\nDe ꝺifferētia scriptoꝝ et opusculoꝝ noībus xij.\nDe instituendis scriptoribus et ocio vitando xiiij.\nVtrū cōmendabilis fit libroꝝ multitudo xiiij.\nDe custodia et mūdicia libroꝝ habenda xv.\nExhortatio ad studiū et amorē scripturaꝝ xvj.\nExpliciūt capitula huius libri ꝺe laude scritoꝝ.\n\nIncipit liber dn̄i Iohānis tri-\ntemij abbatis in spanhem De laude scriptorum.ad dñm\nGerlacū tuiciensem abbatem.\nDE laude scriptoꝝ facturi sermonem: illius\ninuocamus auxiliū: qui synceris scriptori¬\nbus. eterne vite claritatē ꝓmisit in premiū.\nNempe qui ad iusticiā erudiūt plurimos:\nfulgebūt sicut stelle in ppetuas eternitates.\nQuod nō solū de illis intelligendū esse qui\nde sua vena cudūt noua: sed etiā de his qͥ vetera trāscri¬\nbunt. in sequentibus dño largiente monstrabim⁹ Nam\nquātuncūqꝫ vtilis sit doctoris traditio: absqꝫ ministerio\nscriptoris ad noticiā posteroꝝ nequaqͣꝫ deducit̉ Quicqͥd\nem̄ boni agimus.quicqͥd fructuose docenius: in obliuio\nnem cito rapitur: nisi scriptorū studio lr̄is cōmendetur.\nScriptores ergo virtutē dant verbis: memoriā rebus:\nvigorem temporibus.Hos si de ecclesia tollas: vacillat\nfides.caritas friget.spes decidit.ius perit.cōfunditur lex.\nin obliuionē transit euangeliū Deniqꝫ si scriptura defece\nrit.dispergetur populus.deuotio extinguetur.pax catho¬\nlice vnitatis cōfusa turbabitur.Sed absqꝫ scriptoribus\nnon potest scriptura diu salua cōsistere: que et casu fran¬\ngitur: et vetustate corrūpitur.Jmpressura em̄ res papi¬\nrea est: et breui tempore tota cōsumitur.Scriptor autē\nmembranis cōmendans litteras: et se et ea que scribit.in\ntempus longinquū extendit.Vnde ip̄e ecclesiā ditat.fidē\nconferuat.hereses destruit.vicia repellit.mores instruit.\net dat incrementa virtutibus.Scriptor deuotus qualē\ndescribere intendimus.deum laudat.angelos letificat.\niustos homines confortat.peccatores emendat.humiles\ncōmendat.bonos conseruat.superbos debellat.condem¬\nnat pertinaces.Scriptor pietate insignis.dei preco est.\nquia voluntatem eius et p̄sentibus annūciat et futuris:\npromittens bonis vitam eternā: penitentibus veniam:\nnegligentibus penam.contemnentibus damnationem.\n\n3","segment":2,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"9","number":9},{"label":"10","number":10}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-3","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0003","latin":"Quid hac arte salubrius: quid cõmendabilius pietate?\nquã deus diligit. angeli colunt. celi ciues vniuersi vene-\nrantur. Hec est em̃ que fidelibus arma fabricat contra\nhereticos: que superbos deiicit. demones spoliat sua for-\ntitudine. et normã viuendi ponit christianis. Hec est que\ninscios docet. pusillanimes corroborat. deuotos colit.\namore complexatur pacificos! Quid est qđ digne in lau\ndem scriptoris a me possit dici? Quicquid dixero laudi\nbus eius inferius est. quia prius in me angustus artabi\ntur spiritus. qͣꝫ tanto cõdigna honori desit materia! Cõ-\ntingit michi fateor. qđ imperitis oratoribus plerũqꝫ son\nlet accidere. qui rerum de quibus loqui ceperāt maiesta-\nte cõterriti. nec loqui possunt quod sentiu̾t. nec ꝓpter ve-\nrecundiã tacere presumũt. Sicqꝫ fit. ut dum ordinem et\nregulas dicendi transire metuu̾t. a ꝓposito vtilitatis ca-\ndunt. Nam sicut spiritus ꝓphetie aliquãdo etiã ꝓphetas\nad tempus vtiliter deserit. ita oratoribꝰ quoqꝫ nō semp̃\nadest vsitata facundia. Quanto ergo facilius michi tre-\nmor incutitur. qui nec rhetor sum. nec idoneus exorna-\nre latam sermone materiã. Heret lingua palato iam ari\nda. spiritus premit sicca precordia. tremet intuitus ihe-\nrum calamus. in solo vigẽt pectore desideriũ et amor scri\nptoris: Cum ergo defecerim nemo materiã sed verba no\nuerit defuisse loquenti. Faciam tamen christo iuuāte qđ\npotero. cũ sola charitas nr̃i sit causa laboris. que omnia\nposse rite predicatur.\nCõmendatio utilitatis sacre\nscripture.\nCap̃ .ij.\nErum anteqͣꝫ laudes et vtilitatē scriptorū vl-\nterius ꝓsequamur. libet in cõmendationē sa-\ncre scripture laxare paulisper calamũ. vt fra-\ntres qui ad scribendi studiũ prouocandi sunt\nprius in amorem sacre scientie prouocentur. Nisi em̃ pa\nteat vtilitas operis. animum non flectet suasio laboris.\nScriptura itaqꝫ sacra fratres charissimi nobis ad mula\n\nta vtilis est: que quasi nauicula in hoc mari magno ama¬\ntores suos sine periculo transducit ad littus: dum men¬\ntes a terrenis ad celestia eleuat: dum tribulacōnes miti¬\ngat. dum labores leuigat. dum vicia extirpans. virtutes\nplantat. Ipsa enim charitatē accendit: auget fidem. de¬\nuotionem excitat: nutrit veritatem. Qui hanc amauerit\nbeatus est: si tamen in semitis eius vsqꝫ ad mortem per¬\nmanerit! Melior est acquisitio eius negociatione auri et\nargenti: primi et purissimi fructus eius./ Preciosior est\ncunctis opibus scientia scripturarum: et omnia que in\nhac vita desiderātur ab hominibus: huic nō valent com¬\nparari/ Longitudo dierum in dextera eius: et in sinistra\nillius diuicie et gloria/ Uie illius vie pulchre: et omnes\nsemite eius pacifice/ Lignum vite est his qui apprehen¬\nderint eam: et qui tenuerunt eam beati. Ipsa em̄ cor ho¬\nminis purificat: intellectū sui amatoris illuminat: affectū\ndulciter accendens indebriat/ Hanc amaui et exquisui a\niuuentute mea: in sponsam elegi eam: et amator factus\nsum forme illius/ Generositatem illius glorificat contu¬\nbernium habens dei? sed et omnīs dilexit illam.\nDoctrix enim est discipline dei: et electrix operū illius.\nSpeciosior est sole: et super omnē dispositionem stella¬\nrum. luci comparata inuenitur prior: quia lumen eius a\ntenebris nunquā extinguitur Qui amat scientiā scriptu¬\nrarum: stabilietur in pace habitaculum eius. Non enim\nhabet amaritudinē conuersatio eius: nec tediū cōuictus\nilliuis: sed leticiam et gaudium O qͣꝫ mirabilis et dulcis\ninest scripturis ordo dictorū: vbi desideriū amantis sem¬\nper increscit: vbi sacietas nunquā parit fastidii: vbi estu¬\nnes delectabilis iustorum. vbi nimietas non arguitur:\nsed importunitas crebra magis laudatur/ In hac noti¬\ncia rerum salutariū discitur: in hac rite credentibus vita\neterna promittitur. Scripture etenim preterita sine fal¬\nsitate describunt: presentia aliter q̄ꝫ videntur ostendunt:\nfutura quasi ex certitudine coram denunciant/ Vbiqꝫ in\neis veritas regnat: vbiqꝫ virtus diuina irradiat: vbiqꝫ a iiij","segment":3,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"11","number":11},{"label":"12","number":12}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-4","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0004","latin":"ad animarum salutem necessaria panduntur legentibus.\nQuid em̄ vtilitatis et suauitatis non cōtinetur in litteris\nsanctis: si pura intencōne legantur? Ibi est quod fortis\ncomedat: ibi qđ paruulus sugat. Ibi veritatē facti histo-\nria denūciat: ibi allegoria fidem roborat: ibi mores tro-\npologia format: ibi ad celestem patriā anagoia mentem\nleuat. Tota virtutibus plena est: si deuota et pura inten-\ntione legatur. Nichil ibi ociose positū est: nichil sine cau-\nsa misterij conditū. Omnia misterijs et pietate plena sūt.\nNam has lr̄as ratio humana nō repperit: sed homini-\nbus olim sanctis virtus celestis infudit. Quas tūc bene\ndatur intelligi: quādo eas vera et vtilia p̃dicare mens de-\nuota crediderit. Carnalis autē homo, quantacūqꝫ inflẽ-\ntur scientia: sacrae scripturas nō potest intelligere: quia\nvera scientia scripturarū. humilitas deuota est mentium.\nAmator scientie sacre veraciter studiosus: quietem cordis\nfacile cōsequitur: quia dū doctrine scripturarū intentus\nest: minus de vanitate mundi pulsatur. Veraciter enim\ndixit ille beatus. Ama scientiā scripturarū: et carnis vi-\ncia nō amabis! O si a talibus studijs mens humana nō\ntepesceret: qͣꝫ felix status interioris hominis vigeret. Si\nocij tempus non haberet mens inquieta mortaliū: non\npateret tā facilis aditus sordibus vicioꝝ. O si claustrales\nnostri nūc scripturarū studijs veraciter ut olim inisterēt:\nq̄ꝫ vtiles et sibi et ecclesie catholice existerēt. Scientia em̄\nscripturarū est, que humiles vtiliter ponit in sublimi: pau\nperes ditat. despectos glorificat. deuotos iuuat. prelatos\nornat: a seculo monachos segregat. vicijs purgat: virtu-\ntum gradibus exaltat. Ipa estem que fidem format: ca-\nritate ordinat. spem erigit: iusticia colit. temperantiā in-\nstruit: prudentia dirigit ad regulā pietatis! Sacra scri-\nptura fons est sapientie. semita iusticie: forma discipline:\napotheca salutis. magistra veritatis / Hanc si amaueris\nveraciter inuenies: et si in cōuictu eius permanseris. cor-\ntuū ineffabili gaudio delectabit: ita ut om̄es huius mū-\ndi honores et diuicias in illius comparatione velut pul\n\nuerem contemnas exiguū. Docebit em̄ te aduersa mudi cūcta vincere: oblectamenta voluptatū spernere: pulchra huius vite ut feda estimare Si hanc sponsam dilectam habueris.nunquā perniciose tristis eris: sed sempꝫ iocundus. sempꝫ hilaris. sempꝫ in amore dei ꝓficiens. Insuper exaltabit te coram deo et hominibus: erisqƺ in ore omniū admirabilis: et maiores tui venerabūtur te Non erit qui contradicat sermonbus tuis: habebis amicos reges et principes: et de remotis terre mittent eulogia tibi Eris sine ambitu gloriosus: et sine timore reuerendus Ineffa bile donū cōsequeris ab ea.et venerabilis eris corā omībus hominibus Liberabit te a vinculo carnis huiꝰ corrupte: et ducet ante thronum altissimi regis: vbi stol la iocunde immortalitatis vestieris Fortis est mater hec et valde honorifica: qua precedente castra inimicoꝝ trāsibis securus Habet em̄ dei cognitionē amicā Quisquis igitur es qͥ anime tue salutē diligis: ab hac magistra nō discedas eius p̄cepta noli negligere. ut ad amorem dei valeas ꝑuenire Ad cuius cōtinuandam amiciciā copia sanctorū voluminū tibi necessaria est Sine libris enim ad eius familiaritatē non venies.\nDe veterū diligentia et amore\nad libros.\nCap̄ .iij.\nIAm nūc igitur exemplo veterū etiā gentiliū. ad amorē libroꝛū te quantū licet excitare conabor Plus em̄ aliquādo exempla proficiūt qƺ verba quia dū et alios qđ iubemur prius fecisse conspicimus minus de laboris duricia formida mus Quod autē singulare ꝓponitur a suscipiente grauius iudicatur Gaudet infirmitas humana.cōsortio plumperoꝝ: et minus terret a multis crebrius vsitatum Si ergo ꝑpendimus quantam vetores in colligendis libris habuerint diligentiā: studia nostra velut puerorū ludus nichil apparebūt Nullis illi pepercerūt expensis: nullos formidarūt labores:quibʒ libroꝝ multitudinē potuissent","segment":4,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"13","number":13},{"label":"14","number":14}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-5","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0005","latin":"acquirere.Vnde non solū suarū gentiū volumina coeme bant: sed et quarūcunqꝫ nationum exterarum dicta uel facta in suā linguam trāsferentes: ad bibliothecas publi cas condere satagebant.E quibus apud grecos biblio// thecam Phisistratus primus instituit: quā ab athenien sibus auctā xerses incensis athenis euexit in persas: lon goqꝫ post tempore Seleucus nichanor denuo retulit ingreiam Hinc studiū regibus vrhibusqꝫ ceteris natū est comparandi libros diuersarū gentiū: et ꝑ interpretes in aliam linguā vertendur Postea rex Alexander cognomen to magnus quāuis bellicis cōtinue ageretur incursibus. mirū in modū cōstituendis omniū librorū bibliothecis animū dedit Quid dicam de Ptolomeo philadelpho omnis litterature sagacissimo viro. qui cū studio bibliothece Phisistratū emularetur. non gentiū scripturas. sed etiā diuinas lr̄as maximis expensis interpreta tas. in bibliothecam suā incredibili feruore intulit Nam septuaginta milia libroꝝ eius tempore alexandrie inuen ta sunt Plato princeps philosophoꝝ tantum fertur habuisse amorē ad libros. ut Philolai pythagorici tres li bros decem milibus denarijs mercatus sit Aristotelos etiā non minoris glorie apud philosophos. paucos li broꝝ quoꝝ ingens est numerus: ad nostros trāseamus Ambrosius discipulus et amicus magni Origenis credibili studio feruens ad libros. origenem quotidie ad scribendū hortabatur immo impellbat ita ut cum com pulsorem operis in quadam epistola amice appellaret Beatus martyr Pamphilus eusebij cesarienẜ presbiter tanto libros amabat desiderio: ut maiorē partem librum Origenis sua manu describens. maximā multitudinem libroꝝ apud cesaream cooperante cusebio congregauerit Sanctus etiā presbiter Hieronymus ab vrbe secedens. cum omnia mūdana cōtemneret. solam biblio\n\nthecam quā sibi condiderat .se fatetur non potuisse deses rere Augustinus cacholice doctor ecclesie precipuus.cū mori debuisset.quasi pro singulari testamento fratribus cōmisit: ut bibliothecā ecclesiasticā diligenter custodirēt.\nLongū est si velimus amatores libroꝝ precipuos quos nouimus nominatim describere : qui ab inicio christia ne fidei vsqꝫ ad nostrā etate tēporibus claruerūt Dant amorī sacro testimonium.infinita pene volumina que suis bibliothecis illi tradiderūt Uidemus in multis cenobijs maxime nostri ordinis preclara et antiquissima exemplaria: que mira subtilitate conscripta.diligentiam veterū demonstrant.Erat olim abbatibus et monachis nostri ordinis ad libros incredibile studium: quippe quis nouerant ordinis decorem.et infirmarū animarū.in eis haberi remediū.Libri em̄ sunt qui nobis future felicitatis desideriū faciūt.p̄sentis exilij miseriae minuūt:vicia pellūt.virtutes inferūt.cōstantiā in tribulatione tribuūt.fructū induiti temporis producūt.Quid enim nisi terrena sapere possemus:si nō haberemus consolationē scripturum amoeniorum? Deniqꝫ a mentibus hominū fides catholica cito deficeret : si non haberentur instrumenta scriptura gentissime exercantur.Inter omnia enim exercitia manualia nullum adeo cōuenit monachis : sicut scribendis voluminibus sacris studiū impendere.\nDe diligentia veterum in scribendis libris. Cap̄ .iiij.","segment":5,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"15","number":15},{"label":"16","number":16}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-6","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0006","latin":"DEniqꝫ si historias transacti temporis diligen\nter inspiciamus. quantā curā veteres et sancti\npatres scribendis libris etiā ꝓprijs eoꝝ mani\nbus impenderint: et inueniemus. et murabi¬\nmur.Sciebant em̄ geminam huius artis vtilitatē.quod\nsibi multipliciter ad corpus et animā pficeret. et posteris\nad vite honestatē deseruiret!Sanctus pamphilus mar¬\ntir ut pauloante iam diximus.intantū huius artis ama\ntor fuit:ut maximā partem libroꝝ origenis ꝓpria manu\ndescripserit!Si vir tantus et idoneus martyr christi.offi\ncium scriptoris tam feruenti desiderio subire nō rēnuit:\nquid nos vermiculi dicturi sumus.qui in monasterio sine\ncura temporaliū rerū degentes.nec veterū exemplo.nec\nplatorum precepto.manū dignamur a pponere scriptu¬\nris? Martyr iste sanctus in testimoniū desidie et pigru\ncie nostre in iudicio stabit cōtra nos: qui negligimus in\npace imitari: qđ ille magno desiderio in ꝑsecutione ope¬\ntatus est.De sancto Ambrosio mediolaneñ.episcopo le¬\nginus.qꝫ omnes a se editos libros descripserit propria\nmanu:de quibus ego (ne paucos estimares) vltra cen\ntenos iam repperi.Quis nostrū audeat gloriari qꝫ centū\nlibros ab alijs editos.in ocio monasterij descripserit:cū\nhic beatissimus pontifex in cura ecclesiastica positus.et\nin multis occupatus.plures etiā rescripserit.quos ipse\nante composuit? Amor scripturarum cultores suos esse\nnon sinit oiciosos.Sed quia hunc in nobis habere ne¬\ngligimus:ocio inerti torpemus:ita ut que facilima sunt\nstudiosis.nobis ad operandū difficilia reddantur!O qͣꝫ\nfelix esset ordo noster fratres:si exemplis veterum.studio\nincūberemus scripturarū Intueamur antiquos nostri\nordinis abbates et monachos.nostre religionis colum¬\nnas.Cassiodorum.Bedam.Alcuinum.Re\nginonem.Petrum damiani.et ceteros:quanta diligen¬\ntia libros veterum descripserunt: quibus nullus labor\ndurus.nulle expense graues videbantur.quibus augere\npotuissent bibliothecarum suarum ornatum.","segment":6,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"17","number":17},{"label":"18","number":18}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-7","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0007","latin":"De hac industria Cassiodorus et Petrus damiani sin¬\ngulares atqꝫ p̄claros tractatus ediderūt Sed nec Ru¬\npertū vr̄m tuicieñ o fratres negligenter trāsire debemus:\ncuius ꝓfunditatē ingenij tot voluminū cōgeries fulgida\ndecorauit Ip̄e em̄ cū esset vir deuotus et dei scriptura¬\nrūqꝫ ardentissimus amator ꝑ visionē diuinitus illumīari\nmeruit: ita ut in exponendis scripturis suo tꝑe alemania\nsimilē nō haberet Composuit multa egregia volumina.\nque ꝓprijs manibus Ambrosij exemplo descripsit alijsqꝫ\ndescribenda hilariter cōmunicauit Inter quos Cuno ab¬\nbas sigebergenͤ cenobij ratisponenť postea epūs. vir in\ndiuinis scripturis studiosus om̄es penetractatus quos\nRupertus vester cuderat tam p̄ se qͣꝫ p̄ fratres suos fecit\nexopiari Unde maior ps voluminū ruperti in sigeber¬\ngensi cenobio habetur Sed et ip̄e Rupertus diuersarū\nartiū libros colligens apud tuiciū bibliothecā ornatissi¬\nmā instituit quā temporū malicia ut cernitur iamdudū\ndissipauit In multis quoqꝫ monasterijs nr̄i ordinis dili¬\ngentia veterū in scribendis volumībus adhuc hodie cō¬\nspicitur vbi vnius manu viginti vel triginta volumīa sepe\nornatissime scripta ostendūtur Deniqꝫ in vita sancti mar¬\ntinī thuronenť narrat sulpicius ꝙ in eius cenobio p̄ter\nscriptoꝝ nullū exercebatur artificiū Exquo plane colli¬\ngitur ꝙ etiā antiqui sanctissimi patres hāc felicē artem.\nomnibus exercicijs manualibus in cenobijs pretulerūt\nNemo igitur vestrū fratres refugiat qđ sanctos patres\ntāta fecisse diligentia nō ignorat Sicut illi nobis scriben¬\ndo ꝓfuerūt ita et nos posteris monimēta salutis p̄pare¬\nmus Nam si olim veteres non scripsissent qͥd nos modo\nlegeremus Eniuero nisi breuitati statuissem consulere:\nde veterū diligentia scriptoꝝ adhuc multa possem decla¬\nmare Sed quoniā scientibus historias loquor ceptum\nvolo abbreuiare sermonem. Qđ quasi propriū et cō¬\nueniēs monachoꝝ artificiū sit libros veterū describere.\n\nINtendamus fratres qđ paulus ad ꝓpositū nr̄m dicat apl̕s: qͥd sanctus benedictus legifer quoqꝫ nōster ꝓclamet in regula. Ip̄i em̄ duces nr̄i sunt: quoꝝ nos decet obedire māducatis Primus sic ait. Qui nō laborat: nec māducet. Secūdus autē dicit. Tūc veri monachi sunt: cū de laboribꝰ manuū suarū viuūt Ergo si māducare ꝓhibeť qͥ laborare non vult: monachi ociosi aut nō māducēt. aut p̄ceptoꝝ apl̕i se trāsgressores agnoscant Si autē nisi māducent nō possunt viuere: laborandū eis est: ut laborātes et māducantes. valeant etiā bene viuere. Nam viuere et nō bene viuere: est iā mori incipere Male autē viuit: qͥ aliter qͣꝫ debet viuit Debemus autē om̄es ad regulā vite terminus pessimi sta tus iniciū est: nisi ante finem vite penitentia assumatur Item si veri monachi sint qͥ de laboribus manuū suarū uiuūt: sequitur vt veri monachi nō sint. qͥ ociose viuentes laborare contemnūt Qui autem in cenobio verus monachus nō est: qͥd obsecro est: Nō est. qui verus nō est Prorsus monachus nō estest. qͥ verus nō estet veritati cōtrariū est: nō estut esse debet Qđ autē non est ut esse debet: summe veritati cōtradicit que om̄ibus rebus debitū ordinē essendi cōstituit Et ergo veraciter nō est Laborandū itaqꝫ nobis est: qͥ magis nos deceat. magis expediat nostreqꝫ ꝓfessioni plus appropinquet et qͣꝫ officiū scribendi Nam diuinis mancipati officijs fodere nō valemus duros grauesqꝫ agrorum labores ferre non possumus quia si foris in operibus rusticis p̄ diem nos fatigari cōtingeret: diuinū a choro seruiciū periret Sed cū dei fa mulatus om̄ibus sit p̄ponendus laboribus valde incōueniens esset vt interioribus omnissis exterioribus se monachi immergerent Labor autem scribendi nō impedit","segment":7,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"19","number":19},{"label":"20","number":20}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-8","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0008","latin":"horas diuino mancipatas officio: quia dum cursus ho-\nrarũ ꝑ interualla temporũ distinguitur: spaciũ vnicuiqꝫ\ncõueniens deputatur Legimus de sancto Beda venera-\nbili monacho. q̃ licet multa volumina scripserit. tamen a\ndiuino seruicio se raro ꝓpter studiũ cõsueuerit absentare:\nsed intervallo horarũ cõtentus. libros quos edidit. pene\ninnumerabiles scriptis? Nichilominus si abbas vtile iudi-\ncauerit et fuerit necessariũ. scriptor bonus a cõmunibus\nseruicijs nõnunquã poterit supportari. Sed in hac libera-\ntate debite circũstantie sunt necessario pensande. Nõ em̃\nomĩ spiritui credendũ est! Officiũ monachi est tã sua qͣꝫ\naliena deplangere faciora: dñiqꝫ cum timore prestolari\naduentũ: orationi et contemplationi frequenter insistere:\nmundũ fugere. in solitudine sedere/ Sed quẽ hac nostra\netatē monachũ dabis michi vnũ ex milibus: qui in mon-\nte cõtemplationis iugiter cõmoretur? Cũ ergo ad oran-\nduum desides. ad cõtemplandũ rudes. ne ꝑ inania\ndesiderioꝝ effluamus. nullis hũc defectũ laboribus me-\nlius poterimus compensare: qͣꝫ si scribendis volumibꝰ\nad multoꝝ edificationẽ studiũ impendamꝰ Si quis\nautẽ est qui orationi et cõtemplationi vacantibus horis\nrite et cõstanter possit insistere: ab onere scriptoꝝ erit ex-\ncusandus. Sed huius rei examinatio in abbatis. vel al-\nterius viri experti discretione posita sit. Non em̃ citore-\ndendũ est instinctibus iuuenum. Sepe nãqꝫ dum se ad\nmontẽ cõtemplationis iam ꝑuenisse estimāt: periculosis\nerroribus apropinquāt/ Igitur o abba vel prior. si mo-\nnachũ adolescentẽ actiuis nondũ moribus bene institu-\ntũ. sed adhuc suis passionibꝰ seruentẽ videris. etiã si mira\ndixerit. noli permittere: sed arreptis pedibus\neius ad terrã subiectionis proijce: ut discat non alta sa-\npere in supbia et elacõne cordis: sed humilibꝰ cõsentire.\nIn his nõ dicimus q̃ eũ qui potest bene facere debeas\nꝓhibere: sed ut tales si nostri doceas ordinẽ ꝓficiendi: ne\nsi bestia retigerit montẽ. lapidibꝰ obruta pereat Qui autẽ\ncarnẽ suã crucifixit cũ viciijs et cõcupiscentijs: qͥ passioni-\n\nbus suis dn̄ari nouit: qͥ sub obedientia cōuersari humili\nter didicit: etiā si iuuenis fit.idoneus est ad montem dei\nascendere. Eum autē qͥ adhuc passionibus animalibus\nsubiacet.qͥ adhuc infirmus et debilis est.ab mōtis accessu\npedem coherceat:et sanctis exercicijs actiue vite operam\nimpendat/Hi tales itaqꝫ ad scribendi officiū deputandi\nsunt: ne suis libertatibus ꝑniciose dimissi.in baratrum se\nerroris p̄cipitent.Nemo em̄ repente fit summus:sed cer¬\ntis distinctionū gradibus.homo in altū ꝓficit/Ab acti¬\nua vita incipiendū est: ut ad cōtemplatiuā rite ꝑuenias.\nIn nulla autē re monachus actiue ꝑfectioni plus aꝓprio\npiquare sufficit:qͣꝫ si ex caritate divinas scripturas re¬\nscribendo inuiget/Nā vnde elemosynā dabit: qͥ nichil\nhabet? Scriptor autē deuotus oꝑa misericordie abun¬\ndancius implere dinoscitur:cuius labor maioris meriti\ncomprobat/Hinc quidā sic cecinit/Predicat.atqꝫ studet\nscriptor.largitur.et orat. Affligit̉.fal dat.fontēqꝫ\nfuturis.Ecclesiā ditat.armat.custodit.honorat.Quis la\nbor isto vtilior:qui tot p̄rogatiuis honoratur? Deniqꝫ si\nqͥs de hac materia melius informari desiderat: librū can\ncellarij parisiensis de laude scriptoꝝ legat.Ibi em̄ iam\ndictas vtilitates scribendi copiose videbit expositas: et in\nlaudem boni scriptoris plura cōgesta sintagmata/Nullus\nergo labor manibus exercet: qͥ nr̄o magis cōueniat ꝓpo\nsito.qͣꝫ officiū scribendi.Hoc antiquitus cōsiderātes mo¬\nnachi cū incredibili desiderio libros describebāt: scientes\nhanc artē om̄ipotenti deo singulariter esse dilectā.Vult\nem̄ nos deus suā voluntate scire et facere: et mādata sol¬\nlicite custodire.Sed volūtas eius ad nostrā scientiā ne¬\nquaqͣꝫ ꝑtingeret:nisi hāc scriptoris industria lr̄is cōmen\ndasset/Nuncij ergo voluntatis dei scriptores sunt: qͥ hāc\nnobis ꝑ lr̄as tradiderūt.\nQuā bonū et vtile sit mona¬\nchis scribere. Cap̄.vj.","segment":8,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"21","number":21},{"label":"22","number":22}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-9","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0009","latin":"Aagna est itaqꝫ huius sacratissime artis vtili¬tas: que nō solum p̄sentibus. sed etiā futurisannūciat voluntatē dei! Monachi autē scribentes libros diuinos.qͥ nō docendi sed plangendi habent officiū.cum sermone p̄dicare non valeant:manu et calamo voluntatē dn̄i longe futuris annūciant.Et maior est scriptoris pietas officio predicantis: quiaillius cū tempore perit monitio: istius ꝑfeuerat in annosmultos annūciatioꝛ Predicator loquitur dūtaxat p̄senti bus: scriptoꝛ p̄dicat etiā futuris Illius sermo semel au ditus.cito in nichilū redigitur:istius lectio millesies repetita nunquā minuitur.Cū p̄dicator deficit cessat officiū:scriptoꝛ etiā mortuus in volumine moribus facit institutum Parū valet officiū p̄dicantis: si scriptoris mīsteriosonon iuuetur Quid em̄ p̄dicabit: si scriptoꝛ qd̓ legat nonscripserit? Ex pietate igitur scriptoris:vtilis efficitur sermō p̄dicabit: si scribeset nonhaberet Quattuoꝛ aūt vtilitates p̄cipuas monachus infriscibendo deuotus cōfequitur Tempus qd̓ p̄ciosissimūest fructuose expenditur:euis intellectus dū scribit illuminatur: ad deuotionē interior affectus accenditur: et posthāc vitā singulari mercede premiatur.Quomodo possetmonachus cōcessum sibi tempus fructuosius expendere:qͣꝫ scribendis voluminibus cū amore dei insistere? Namhuic officio deus fauet: angeli cōgaudentes afflistūt:oīmdeuotio fideliū syncera famulatur Deniqꝫ interim ꝙ bonas deuotasqꝫ rescribit materias:cogitacōnes inanes velturpes nō patitur molestas: verba ociosa non loquitrufeuss rumoribus nō maculatur: sed quietus et solitariussedens cū gaudio epulatur in scripturis: et bonis exercitijsad glorificandū deū prouocat intuentes.Etenim dūbonas scribit materias: scribendo in agnitionē misterio rum paulatim introducitur: et interius animo magnifiquemus: qꝛ scribentes et legentes ea cū morula tractamusMens quoqꝫ scribentis ad deuotionē felicius plerumqꝫb 1\n\naccenditur: dum scripturas ruminās sepe ꝑ eas inflāma\ntur! Quale autē deuoto scriptori premiū in celo debeat̉:\nex multis eoꝝ laboribus facile colligitur. Credimus em̄\nqͥ scriptor deuotus et sincerus in illa retribucōne iustoꝝ\np̄dicatoris aureola nō priuetur: qui tā multos manu do\ncere in fide cōspicitur. Nā qđ ille loquēdo: hic scribendi\nofficio docet! Fuit in quodā cenobio nostri ordinis nuhi\nnō incognito frater quidā deuotos qui in scribendis ad\nornatū bibliothece voluminib magnū habebat studiū:\nita ut quotienscun a diuino potuisset vacare officio. ad\nsecreta celle se conferens. huic sacrato labori inisteret.\nUnde et multa sanctoꝝ opuscula. cū ingenti deuotione\nexcopiauit/ Huius mortui ossa cū post multos annos le\nuarētur de terra: tres digiti dextere manus. quibus tot\nvolumina scripserat. tam integri et incorrupti inuenti sūt:\nac si eodem tempore sepulchro fuissent impositi. Reliquū\nautē corpus ut moris est cōsumptum ad ossa fuit/ Quo\ntestimonio colligitur: qͣꝫ sanctū hoc officiū apud om̄ipo\ntentē deū iudicetur: cuius ut meritū vniuentibus ostende¬\nret: etiā in mortuis cadauerib mēbra scriptoꝝ hono¬\nrauit/ O fratres mei si sciretis huius vtilitatē operis: nō\nessetis tam pigri et tardi ad officiū scriptoris/ An puta¬\nnis deū victinis posse placari stultoꝝ? Maius meritū\nhabet ad deū humilis frater deuote ex obedientia vnū li\nbrū excopians: qͣꝫ ille qͥ et deuote et ex ꝓpria auctoritate\ncōtemplationi vacare videtur. Melior est em̄ obedientia\nqͣꝫ victime! Monachus autē bonū opus si iubet̉ debet\ndimittere: et abbatis voluntatē licitā. nō suā adimplere.\nMalū em̄ ꝓpter obedientiā nunquā est faciendū/ Itaq\nfratres charissimi nolite hoc bonum negligere: scribendi\nstudiū nolite vilipendere. Magnū nan bonum est: et\necclesie catholice et animabus vestris valde commodosum/\nSi quis in eo se vsitauerit: quāte vtilitatis sit agnoscet.\nIncipite cū desiderio: et cū amore ꝑficietis/ Bau¬\ndet se vnufquis in domo dei alioꝝ vtilitatē aliquid\nlaboribus suis attulisse Clemens et uistus est dn̄s. la¬","segment":9,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"23","number":23},{"label":"24","number":24}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-10","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0010","latin":"bores vestros.tam pios.tam vtiles tam necessarios eccle\nsie.non sine maxima retribucōne transibit.\nQđ propter impressurā a scri\nbendis volumībus nō sit desistendū.Cap̄.vij.\nAmo cogiret fratres nemo dicat: qͥd necesse\nest me scribendo fatigari.cum ars impressoria\ntot tantosqꝫ libros trāssundat in lucē: ut mo\ndico ere magnam bibliothecam possimus in-\nstruere? Uere quicūqꝫ talia loquitur et ocio suo tenebras\nfacere conatur.Quis nesciat: quāta sit inter scripturā et\nimpressurā distantia? Scriptura em̄ si membranis im-\nponitur.ad mille annos poterit ꝑdurare: impressura aut̄\ncū res papirea sit.qͣꝫdiu subsistet? Si in volumine papi-\nreo ad ducentos annos ꝑdurare potuerit:magnum est.\nquāqͣꝫ multi sint qui ꝓpria materia impressurā arbitren-\ntur consumendā. Hoc posteritas iudicabit.Enīuero etiā\nsi multa volumina impressa sint:nūquā adeo im-\nprimentur.quin semꝑ ad scribendū qđ impressum nō sit\nvaleas inuenire.Nec facile quisqͣꝫ omnes libri\ntocius mūdi imprimerentur:a studio suo scriptor deuo-\ntus nequaqͣꝫ deberet desistere: sed etiā impressos vtiles\nꝑ scripturā perpetuare:qui alioquin diu nō valent sub-\nsistere.Hoc em̄ faciens dabit scripturis nutantibs firmi\ntatem:paruis precij magnitudinem:caducis temporis\nlongeuitatem.Deutus autē scriptor semꝑ inueniet.cui\nincumbens officio mereatur.Non patitur costringi sub\nconditione impressoris.Liber est:et libertatis sue gau-\ndebit officio. Neqꝫ em̄ impressori inferior est: ut studiū\nsuū deserat.propter illius impressuram.Sed eo consulte\npreterito letus via cepta progreditur:sciens suā coronā\napud deū nō minuendā:quacūqꝫ importunitate alterius\nQui autē a scribendi studio cessat propter impressurā:\n b ij\n\nverus amator scripturarū non est: quia p̄sentia dūtaxat\nintuens.nichil sollicitus est,pedificacōne posteroꝝ.Nos\nautē fratres charissimi.mercedē istius sancti laboris un-\ntuentes ab eius studio non cessemus: etiā si multa milia\nvoluminū habeamus.Scriptis em̄ codicibus nunquā\nimpressi exequo cōparantur.Nam orthographiam et ce\nteros librorum ornatus impressura plerumque negligit.\nScriptura autē maioris industrie est.\n\nCap̃ .viij.\n\n >\n\nTautē deuotus scriptor officium vtiliter im-\n\npleat suū. et libros quos scribit pulchra ve-\n\nnustate reddat ornatos.diligentissime obser-\n\nuet precepta orthographie: sine qubus libri\n\nquantūlibet vtiles.fedi despectique reddūtur.De hac autē\n\nmateria in veterū codicibus auctorū copiosa documen-\n\nta habentur:quibus nō est huius tēporis diucius immo\n\nrari.Exempla etiā eruditoꝝ hominū.nouis scriptoribus\n\np̄cepta industrie sunt.Inspiciamus volumina antiquissi-\n\nma que scriptores eruditi scripserūt:et ex eoꝝ imitacōne\n\nsumamus artis nostre compendiū.Jn quibus fuerūt nō\nnulli qui scriptione exactam adhibuere diligentiā.ut\nnō solū recte sed etiā perite scripserint.notis.colis.et sce-\nmatibus pulchra varietate volumīa distinguentes:ut so\nlo aspectu ad lectionē eorundē videari.puocari.Tāetisi\napud veteres imperiti scriptores codices fedauerint suos:\ndū aut nescierūt.aut noluerūt intelligere ut bene scriberēt\nTu autē nō imperitoꝝ negligentiā.sed eruditi qđ etiā\ntebant p̄positam noueris imitandā.Antiquitus nō admit-\ntebant passim scriptores.sed tantū docti et eruditi:qđ etiā\na pericia notarū.notarij appellati sunt.Qui nō solū pul-\nchra.sed etiā emendata volumina.mira subtilitate scripse\nrūt.Hos velim imiteris.qꝛ dignū et iustū est.ut scriptur¬\n\nra sanctissima ex ore dei ad nostrā edificationē prolata.","segment":10,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"25","number":25}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-11","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0011","latin":"et recte scribatur et ornate. Quid dicam de quibusdam huius etatis scriptoribus: qui etsi plerūqꝫ quid scribant intelligant. adeo pigri et desides sunt. vt nullā penitus di ligentiā velint adhibere scripturis? Hi sunt corruptores rectitudinis scripturarū: falsificatores bullarū pō tificis ihesu christi: nūcij stulti et ꝑuersi: quippe qui volū tatem dei scribentes. cū timore et sollicitudine annūciare debuerāt: quā ecōtrario negligenter et corrupte tractāt.\nSi iuxta canonū statuta excōicatus est qͥ lr̄as pape fal sificat: qua pena plectendus est qui dei scripturas depra uat? Sicut scriptor deuotus et diligens magnū in eccle sia dei fructum scribendo exhibet: ita desidiosus et negli gens maxima eidem damna infert. Dum em̄ scripturas corrūpit ecclesie falsa pro veris annūciat: lectores a slu dio sancto impedit: intelligentiā tollit. ordinem docendi puertit. Hec dixerim in eos qui collato sibi dono intel lectus abutūtur: et ex pigricia vel negligentia scripturas sanctas false scribendo corrumpere nō verentur. In illos autē qui minus eruditi. faciūt studiose qd̓ possunt: non est tam dura ferenda sententia. Nemo em̄ peccat inuitus Cum ergo scriptor deuotos codicem studiose descripserit ad exemplar eū denuo cōferat: sicubi errauerit. studio sa emendacōne castiget. Hoc faciens et ip̄e scriptor idoneus et fidelis: et liber ordine debito acceptabilis inuenitur. Si fieri potest. ornentur codices pulchro decore: ut etiā aspectu sui. ad lectionē prouocent intuentes. Hoc em̄ veteres magno studio ꝓcurasse cognouimus: ut venustas exterior. interiorem codicū pulchritudinem commendaret. Sacra em̄ scriptura dignissima est omni ornatu. Cauendum tamen est ne ip̄e ornatus sit curiosus: ne pulchritudinē rectitudini preponamus: quia vbi honẽstas admittitur: curiositas ꝓhibetur. Simul ne dictohieronymi notemur. quo arguit imperitos: qui pulchros codices malūt habere qͣꝫ emendatos. Et de multitudine libroꝝ similis erit adhibenda sententia.\nb iij\n14","segment":11,"source":{"mapping_precision":"approximate","pages":[{"label":"25","number":25}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-12","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0012","latin":"De his qui scribere nō possunt.\nCa.ix.\nS I qui autē fratres essent adeo rudes et aridi ut penitus scribere nesciāt: suademus in primis ut discāt: qꝛ nichil adeo difficile est qd̓ nō cedat bone voluntati. Qꝫ si om̄ino hanc sacratissimā artem nō potuerint addiscere: dabimus in promptū consiliū: ne fructu tam sancti ope ris penitus priuentur. Scriptoribus ergo in alijs suc currite: si scribendis voluminibus ip̄i nō valetis inisitere. Unus corrigat qd̓ alius scripsit: alius rubro ꝑorget qd̓ ille emendauit: hic notis distinguat atqꝫ scematibus: cōglutinet iste et liget codicem asseribus. Tu aptabis asse res. iste coꝛium: laminas ille p̄paret ad ornatū. Nullius hic desit ministeriū: quo deuotus scriptor releuatus. suu valeat continuare officiū. Deniqꝫ ad scribendi rationem multa pertinent: que singula possint singuli preparare.\nScindat vnus pergamenū. alius purget: tercius linean do scriptoribus aptet: alius encaustū. pennas alius mi nistret. Semper eṁ habetis quo scriptores vestros dei beatis supportare. Nec displiceat vobis si vtilis scriptor iudicio abbatis ab oneribus cōuentualibus interdū sup portetur. Uos alloquor fratres qui aliqua causa prepe diti scribere nō valetis: vobis hec dogmata p̄cipua in tentione exposui. Intueamini monachos quondā nostri ordinis insignes. ut contemporaneos Bede. Rabani. Haimonis ceteroꝛūqꝫ venerabiliū abbatū: cum quanta hilaritate scriptoribus ministrarūt. Incredibili naͣqꝫ scri ꝑturarū amore feruentes beatos se estimabāt et felices: si doctores et scriptores suos in aliquo potuissent adiu uare. Hoc studiū monachoꝝ sanctitate morū venerabile oꝛdinē nostrū quondā magnifice sublimauit: quo defi ciente: excellentia oꝛdinis collapsa perijt. Nūc itaqꝫ fra tres pro animarū vestraꝝ salute et oꝛdinis sanctis scrip turis feruenter inistite: ut ad eos qui vos in eo laudabi liter p̄cesserūt possitis cū gaudio ꝑuenire. Nemo se a lat\nS I qui autē fratres eßent adeo rudes et ardi ut penitus scribere nesciāt: suademus in primis vt discāt: qꝛ nichil adeo difficile est qd̓ nō cedet bone voluntati. Qͦ si om̄ino hanc sacratissimā artem nō potuerunt addiscere: dabimus in promptū consiliū: ne fructu tam sancti operis penitus priuentur. Scriptoribꝰ ergo in alijs suc currite: sif scribendis voluminibus ipĩ nō valetis insistere.\nUnus corrigat qđ alius scriptit: alius rubro pornet qđ ille emendauit: hic notis distinguat atqʒ scematibus: cōglutinet iste et liget codicem asseribus. Tu aptabis asseres. iste coꝛium: laminas ille p̃paret ad ornatũ. Nullius hic desit ministeriũ: quo deuotus scriptor releuatus. suũ valeat continuare officiũ. Deniqʒ ad scribendi rationem multa pertinent: que singula possint singuli preparare.\nScindat vnus pergamenũ. alius purget: tercius linean do scriptoribꝰ aptet: alius encausstũ. pennas alius ministret. Semper eṁ habebis quo scriptores vestros dei beatis supportare. Nec displiceat vobis si vtilis scriptor iudicio abbatis ab oneriꝰ cōuentualibꝰ interdū sup portetur. Uos alloquorum fratres qui aliqua causa prepe diti scribere nō valetis: vobis hec dogmata pcipua intentione exposui. Intueamini monachiꝰ quondā nostri ordinis insignes. ut contemporaneos Bedē. Rabani. Haimoniꝰ ceteroꝛũqʒ venerabiliũ abbatũ: cum quanta hilaritate scriptoribꝰ ministrarũt. Incredibili naͣgʒ scripturꝰ ꝑturarũ amore feruentes beatos se estimabāt et felices: sif doctores et scriptores suos in aliquo potuissent adiu uare. Hoc studiũ monachoꝝ sanctitate morũ venerabile oꝛdinẽ nostrũ quondā magnifice sublimauit: quo deficiente: excellentia oꝛdinis collapsa perijt. Nũc itaqʒ fra tres pro animariũ vestraꝝ salute et oꝛdinis sanctis scripturus feruenter insistite: ut ad eos qui vos in eo laudi litę p̄cesserũt possitis cũ gaudio ꝓuenire. Nemo se a lat\nS I qui autē fratres essent adeo rudes et aridius penitus scribere nesciant: suademus in primis vt discant: qꝛ nichil adeo difficile est qed nō cedet bone voluntatī. Qͦ si ommino hanc sacratiissimā artem nō posuerint addiscere: dabimus in promptū consiliũ: ne fructu tam sanctī operis penitus priuentur.\nScriptoribꝰ ergo in alijs successurite: sifscribendis voluminibus ipsi nō valetis insisterē. Unus corrigat qed alius scriptit: alius rubro pornet qed ille emendauit: hic notis distinguat atqƺ scematibus: cōglutinet iste ex liget codicem asseribꝰ. Tu aptabis asseres coꝛium: laminas ille pp̃paret ad ornatum. Nullius hic desit ministerium: quo deuotus scriptor releuantis. suum valeat continuare officium. Deniqʒ ad scriben̄ rationem multa pertinent: que singula possunt singulis preparari.\nScindat vnus pergamentum. alius purget: tercius linean do scriptoriꝰ aptet: alius encaussum. pennas alius ministret. Semper eṁ habeis quo scriptores vestros dei beatiꝰ supportare. Nec displiceant vobis si utilis scriptor iudiciꝰ abbatis ab oneriꝯ cōventualibꝰ interdũ sup portetur. Uos alloquiꝰ fratres qui aliqua causa prepediti scribere nō valent: vobis hec dogmatꝰ pcipua intentioni exposui. Intueamini moñachiꝰ quondā nostrī ordinis insignes. ut contemporaniꝰ Bedē. Rabanū. Haimoniꝯ ceteroꝛũqƺ venerabiliũ abbatū: cum quanta hilaritatꝰ scriptoriꝯ ministrarūt Incredibili naͣḡʒ scripturꝰ ꝑiturarū amore feruentes beatꝰ se estimabāt et felicis: sif doctoreꝫ et scriptoreꝫ suꝰ in aliquo potuissent adju uaret. Hoc","segment":12,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"26","number":26},{"label":"27","number":27},{"label":"28","number":28}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-13","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0013","latin":"bore scribendi excusare audeat: qui penā ociosoꝝ euadea re desiderat.Si nō potes ornate scribere.scribe ut p̄uales: hoc tantū caueto ne sensum scripturarum tua negli gentia corrumpas.Malo em̄ codicem habere emenda tū qͣz pulchrū: exilem qͣz nullū.Ne dicas ergo quia bene scribere nescio.iccirco excusatus sum:sed scribe ut potes et nichil a te amplius exigitur.\nDe materia quam scribant.Cap̄ .x.\nI autē queratur quales mate rias monachi debeant scribere: breuiter re spondemꝰ ꝙ tales.qͣles obedientia superioꝝ iniungit.In abbatis em̄ vel prioris arbitrio est:qͥd vnicuiqꝫ ad scribendū velit inūgere.Caueant ta men ne infirmis fratribʒ tales materias ad scriendum cōmittant:de quarū lectione infirmiores fiant.Non em expedit omnes materias legere omnibus.Qꝛ si tale quid scribi debeat.cōmittatur fratribus fortioribus et erudi tis:qͥ nouerīt mel sugere de petra.et oleū de saxo durissimo.Libri autē sanctoꝝ patrū.quibus diuinas explana uere scripturas a monachis singulari studio scribēdi sūt: quia ex illoꝝ noticia ad intelligentiā mysterioꝝ dei copio sius instruūtur.Sed et eoꝛundem tractatus qui ad exci tandā deuotionē idonei sunt p̄cipua intencōne a nostris scriptoribus sunt scribendi.Et generaliter omnes libri. qui vel bonis moꝛibus instituendis.vel oꝛthodoxe fidei integritati deseruiūt.ad monachoꝝ studia sunt compa randi.Sed nec seculariū litterarū codices recusamus.immo ꝺiligimus:quoꝝ scientia ad intelligentiā sanctaꝝ scripturarū nobis valde necessaria est.Hoc monachi ven teres nō ignorantes.in om̄ibus ꝺisciplinis secularis lit terature instituebātur.Quattuoꝛ autē monachis quantū ad eoꝝ statū attinet scienda sunt:sine quoꝝ scientia vni tas ecclesiastica non ꝺiu posset in suo robore subsistere.Theologia.musica.iura.et ars computistica.Intelligen tibus rationes singuloꝛū aperte sunt:quas in alio loco\n\nplenius digessimus. Et de his quoqꝫ scriptores nr̄i fue¬\nrant admonendi: ne lr̄aꝝ seculariū scientias velut inuti¬\nles reputarent. Prouidentia itaqꝫ abbatis: vnicuiqꝫ pro\nsuo captu qd̓ scribat prouideat. Si autē abbates curis\nseculariū rerū se immerserint (qd̓ plures faciūt) neglectis\nlibris: monachi nichilominus studium scribendi conti¬\nnuent: nec ob negligentiā abbatum suū profectū velit\namittere. In hoc casu. su ꝑpleat defectū abbatis desidiosi\nprior sollicitus. et ordinet fratibus cōuenientes ad scri¬\nbendum materias. Scio enim plura insignia monaste¬\nria. quoꝝ priores (abbatū non obstante desidia) orna¬\ntissimas bibliothecas instruxerūt. Ergo si fratres ad scri¬\nbendū sunt liberi. eligant sibi doctores singulos quorum\nvolumina scribant: vnus Origenem. alter Basiliū. alius\nAugustinū. alter Hieronymū. et sic de ceteris: secundū\nvniuscuiusqꝫ inclinationē. quia ex hoc amplius in sacro\nstustio plerūqꝫ proficiūt. Si autē liberi nō sunt: nouerint\nobedientiā prelati. electioni ꝓprie iure preferendā/ Fra¬\ntres etiā scriptores. qui volunt in studio diuinarū scrip¬\nturarū proficere: faciant sibi libellos quos rapiarios vo\ncant. vt quādo libros sanctoꝝ patrum scribendo trans¬\ncurrunt. si quid memoratu dignum inuenerint. exemplo\nsagacissime apis colligant: et sententias vtiles quasi odo\nriferos flores in alueario sui voluminis congerentes: in\npromptu habeant. quo tempore opportuno sermonē cō¬\nuenientem proferre sciant/ Hoc venerabilis Beda mo¬\nnachus fecisse legitur: hoc Rabanus abbas. hoc Bona\nuentura cardinalis. hoc alij cōplures doctissimi viri acti¬\ntasse memorantur. Multū quippe ad intelligentiā sacre.\nscripture proficit. qui hunc discendi ordinem custodit/\nSed caueat ne studiū priuatum. vtilitati preferat pluri\nmorū. hoc est ne suis collectionibus cōtinue immorādo.\nbonū obedientie pretereat. Non enim prosperabūtur stu\ndia. que legibus obedientie repugnāt/ Teneat in vtroqꝫ\nmedium: ne nimum scribendo deficiat: neqꝫ sibi vacās.\nobedientiam et charitatem suis comodis postponat./","segment":13,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"29","number":29},{"label":"30","number":30}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-14","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0014","latin":"Dum folia humida siccantur. vel fatigatū ex labore tren¬mitat caput: velut prosolacio suis collecturis inuigilet.\nSed et diebus festis dū ab oracōnibꝫ vacat talia curet.\nAn liceat monachis festis die bus scribere.\nLa .xj.\nCAta iam occasione p̄sentibus queritur. An li¬citū fit monachis festis diebus scribere: qui¬bus in lege ab operibꝫ serulibus p̄cipitur va¬care? Hanc questionē Iohānicā cellario quon¬dam parisien̄. viro doctissimo legimus a quibusdā fuisse ꝓpositā: quā in libro de laude scriptoꝝ. ꝑ. xij. cōsideratio¬nes deducens. ita postremo cōcludit dicens. Nichil im¬pedit libros seu tractatulos vel codicillos deuocōnis scri¬bere diebus festis. habito moderamīe: quale sapiens iua¬dicabit in hoc opere: qđ vtiqꝫ nō seruile censendū est: sed in honorē ecclesie plus aliquādo vergens: qͣꝫ multiplica¬tio vocalis oracōnis: immo infolens in aliquibus missarū inculcatior Hec ille Nos aut̄ adijcientes cū humilitate dicimus. ꝙ monachus sub obedientia cōstitutus. si p̄ci¬piente prelato. festis diebus materias vtiles scribit. nichil timeat: quia melior est obedientia scribentis: qͣꝫ victime ꝓprie volūtatis. Ea tamen que ex institucōne festi obligatur hac occasione nō negligat: sicuti est celebrare. vel au¬dire mussam: et horas rite ꝑsoluere canonicas Bene fa¬cit itaqꝫ libros scribens diebus festis: debitis cir¬cũstantijs diligenter ađhibitis Qui autē diuine contemplatione congruentur potest insistere. excellentiorē gradum creditur obtinere: nisi obedientie meritū iure interueniat Illa em̄ bonis operibus incrementū adijcit: et ex equalibus meliora facit Cum ergo simus hoīes infirmi et adcōtemplationē minus idonei. melius est hoc damnū scribe bendo refundere. qͣꝫ inutilibus (vt fieri solet) sermonibus vacaret Quia etiā nec legere semꝑ possumus nec orare: non est quo nos post hec vtilius occupemus: qͣꝫ si cum\n\ndeuotione scribendis libris studium impendamus. Ex hoc nō solum nos instruumur: sed etiā futuris longepost uos materiā edificationis p̄paramus/ Non minus scrip tor docet bona scribendo: qͣꝫ p̄dicator sancta p̄dicando. Et qđ illi licet: istum quis prohibet? Et sicut iam diximus fratres studiosi p̄sertim festis diebus. suis deuotio nibus cōsulentes. codicillos suos rapiarios confidenter possunt scribere: nisi ut dictū est obedientia aliud p̄cipiat operari In omnibus autē his serenāda est intentio precipientis: regulanda etiā deuotio scribentis Qui autē aliquid scribūt pro precio. quantūcunqƺ materia vtilis sit: ab hac libertate seclusi. festis diebus ab oꝑe cessabunt: quia lucris terrenis intencōne deseruiūt: et iccirco seruele opus iudicatur: nisi forte alius interueniat (qd̓ raro cōungit) respectus pietatis.\n¶ De differentia scriptorum et opusculoꝝ nominibus. Cap̄ .xij..\nScriptores duplici apud antiquos appellacō ne habebantur. Primi dicebātur antiquarij: qđ vetera tantūmodo sciberent: nomen ab officio sumentes Secūdi appellabātur librarij: qui et noua scribebāt et vetera Antiquarij cū sciberent etiā antiquis lr̄is vtebātur: librarij autē nouis Dicūtur autē librarij a libro hoc est interiori corticis que ligno coheret: quia ante vsum carthe vel membrane de libris arborū volumina compaginata fiebāt: sicut in vetustissimis bibliothecis adhuc hodie reperiūtur quādoqƺ vestigia Iam pro instructione deuoti scriptoris libet diuersitatem opusculoꝫ aliquantulū describere: sicuti a Rabinero viro quondā peritissimo enarrantur: quia nō erit fra tribus inutilis eoꝝ noticia ut sciānt quēadmodū vnum quodqƺ opusculū debeant ppellare Opusculorum ergo tria sunt genera Primum genus excerpta dicūtur: quod greci Scholia nūcupant: in quibus ea que videntur ob","segment":14,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"31","number":31},{"label":"32","number":32}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-15","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0015","latin":"scura.vel difficilia. summatim ac breuiter perstringūtur.\nSecūdū genus Homelic sunt: quas nos verbū appella-\nmus: et ꝓferuntur ad populū/ Terciū genus Thomi,\nquos nos libros vel volumina nūcupam⁹. Homelic ad\nvulgum sunt: thomi.id est libri maioris disputacōnis.\nDialogos est collatio duorum: a dia et logos.quod est\nduoꝝ sermo.Tractatus est vnius rei multiplex exposita-\nrio.Cõmentaria dicta sunt quasi cõmenta: sunt em̄ inter\npretacōnes:cõmenta iuris cõmenta euangelij.Apolo-\ngeticos est liber excusacōnis:in quo solent quidā accu-\nsantibus respondere/Panegiricos,id est laudatiuus:lun-\ncenciosum et lasciuū genus dicendi: in laudibus regū et\nprincipū:in cuius composicōne hoīes multis mendacijs\nadulantur/Prologos est p̃fatio ante librū: vt prologus\nbeati Hieronymi in genesim.Prohemion est iniciū di-\ncendi uel operis:et sepe ꝓ prefatione accipitur/Simpe-\nrasma operis alicuius conclusio est: et nostro more tercie\ndeclinacōnis sicut dogma accipitur/Biblos.id est codex\nmultorum libroꝝ est:ut codex biblie qui multos libros\ncontinet/Liber est tractatus partialis per se diuisus uel\nvnicus:vt vnus liber Augustini de penitentia: vel quat\ntuor de doctrina christiana etcꝭ/Volumen liber est a vol\nuendo dictus:ficit volumina legis.volumina ꝓphetarū.\nFastorum libri sunt in quibus reges et consules scribūtur:\nquia ex corticibus earundē fiebant:vel quia ad mo-\ndum folioꝝ in codice volitant/Uersus dicūtur a verten-\ndo:quia antiqui scribebant sicut arborū appellata\nsunt:quid autem ad dexterā stilum primo ducebant:deinde cõuerte\nbantur ab inferiori.et ad sinistram rursus scribebant.\nSceda scede.est quod emendatur adhuc. et necdum in\nmundū redactum est: pro qua nos conceptiones quasi\nimpolitas materias dicimus/Instrumenta autē scribe\nsunt calamus et penna.\n14\n\nDe instituendis scriptoribus\nin cenobijs.\nLa .xiiij.\nQUoniā ut supra diximus nullū artificiū adeo\nmonachoꝝ professioni cōuenit. sicut scribendi\nofficiū: ob id qđ multi infirmi et imbecilles (ne̅ dicā rudes) ad exercicia sublimiora non sunt\nidonei. Non em̄ omnibus donatū est cōtemplationi vel\noracōni semꝑ insistere: vel alios predicando informare.\nSũt vero nōnulli desides et pigri qui se excusant. immo\ngloriantur. dicentes. Nescio scribere Si nescis ꝑdiscas:\nalioquin qui non laborat. nec manducet? Non excusat te\nignorantia ab officio: quā facile vincibilem. negligis supe\nraret Si tibi bona tantū inesset voluntas: scribendi artem̄\ncito p̃beret assiduitas Ad tollendas igitur excusacōnes\npigroꝝ. cōsultum videtur et valde proficuū. vt abbates\nvel ꝑ suos vel alios monachos in arte scribendi faciant\ninstrui: qꝛ ex hoc et pigris excusacōnis materia tollitur:\net maxima vtilitas inde generat̉. O ciositas em̄ imnica\nest aīe: et desideria occidūt pigrū! Si qͥs autē piger\naut maliuolus fuerit. ut om̄ino scribere nō cōsentiat: alijs\nlaboribus et abstinentijs affligendus est: donec petat in\nsolaciū qđ antea cōtempsit Sit tamen cautus in oṁibʒ\nabbas: et ardua semꝑ p̃cedant caritatis Od erūt\nhāc disciplinā valde demones: scientes ꝙ ꝑ eius misteriū\nsalus multoꝝ ꝓcuratur. Iccirco monachos om̄i studio\nab eius officio conātur retrahere: et eousqꝫ nōnunqͣꝫ ꝑdu\ncere: ut plericꝗ suis p̃latis vsqꝫ ad inobedientie crimen\nresistentes. calamitatē incidunt horribilem. Quales iam\nplerosqꝫ nouimus. suis maioribʒ in obedientes. ne scribe\nre possent. diabolo suadente. sibiup̃is crudeles effecti. ex\ntremā dementiā inciderūt Sed omittamus hec: ne plus\nnoceant qͣꝫ prosint infirmis lectoribus. Excusatiouē legi\ntimā nemo habet: cui in sola volūtate constat defectus.\nQui em̄ addiscere volūt oportuna sꝑ documēta inueniēt:\nvel ab a Vsius ars ( disca Br bo t o c ta rigo pu fo cid re E de va gu br fe pi h on te b o","segment":15,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"33","number":33},{"label":"34","number":34}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-16","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0016","latin":"vel ab alijs qui nouerũt.vel ex veterū libris informandi.\nUsus etiā scribendi multū cōducit ad profectū: quia hec\nars si diu intermittitur:paulatim dediscitur.Nulla enim\ndisciplina quātulibet celebris absqꝫ vsu diutius retinetur\nPractica em̄ artis vigor est Legant monachi qui scri¬\nbere nolūt.librū beati Augustini de opere monachoꝝ:\net erubescat suā ignauiam.qui cōtra patrū decreta ocio¬\nse cōuersantur.Scriptura dicit.In desiderijs est omnis\nociofus Quare? Quia dū ad operandū foris vtilia per\nexerciciū nō flectitur:cogitacōnibus immūdis mens va\ncua intus sordidatur Saturitas panis et ociū:sodomi\ntas ad eternū deduxit interitū.Ociositas mater et scatu\nrigo est omniū vicioꝝ:et oīm interitus virtutū.Nā tem¬\npus acceptabile.infructuose et turpiter expendit:virtutū\nfomenta defert:libidinē fuggerit.vires minuit.animā oc\ncidit Ociū itaqꝫ fugite:qui ad vitā eternā cupitis ꝑueni¬\nre:que non ociofis fedrite laborantibus repromissa est.\nEt maxime in monachis hec desidia reprehenditur:qͥ nō\nde labore ad ociū.sed deocio ad labore vocantur.Qꝛ si\ndixeris michi.nō possum scribere.in cella ꝑ totū diem nō\nvaleo ꝑmanere:ad labores exteriores libenter ibo:fode¬\nre aut portare lapides minime recufabo:tantum ne an¬\ngustiam patiar in his que michi funt omnino cōtraria:\nbreuiter respondebo.Nō est bona cōparatio:que a pro¬\nfectu meliori discedit Melius est scribere q̄ꝫ fodere:li¬\nbros facros legere.q̄ꝫ lapides portare:nifi obediētia uel\npietas ad omnia valens.fevoluerit interponere.Sinon\npotes scribere.si in cella folus nō vales ꝑmanere:cur ad\nmonafteriū venire voluisti.monachū nō victurus?In ce\nnobio em̄ nō monachū viuere:est fe ad damnatione ꝓprij\norifis fentitia alligare.Monachus em̄ iuxta noīs fu in¬\nterptationē in cenobio folus federe p̄cipitur:ut a mundi\ncuris ꝑ silentiū separetur.Tu ergo fi nolueris effe quod\npromisfiti:deo (tranfgreffor voti) mentiris.Deo autem\nmentiri:est suo fe ore damnare.Cōuerfionē morū tuoꝝ\nvouisti fecundū regulā fañcti Benedicti:que monachos\n\nintantū laborare precipit: ut ociosos monachos esse nen gauerit/ Q̄ autē te laboꝛibus exterioꝛibus occupari desi¬ deras: qͣꝫ vacuus ab interioꝛi exercicio sis manifestas.\nQuē em̄ ex monachis hi labores ꝺelectāt: eū interiores necesse est ꝺerelinquāt Exterioꝛibus inquā laboribꝫ ꝺu¬ ceris instinctu ꝺiabolico: qui sibi interiores nouit esse cō trarios Si verus monachus effes nō abhoꝛreres secre¬ tū celle: qꝺ̓ tue vel maxime cōgruit honestati Nō est tāta in monachis nostra etate ꝺeuotio: ut veterū exemplo in operibus agriculture possint ꝓficere Magis ꝺestruūt hi laboꝛes ꝺeuotionē qͣꝫ edificent. Mox em̄ ut ventū fuerit ad colloquia nullus vel rarus edificationis sermo ꝺepro mitur: sed ad mūdi negocia qͣꝫ cupidissime oꝛa laxantur.\nDe regū bellis ꝺe principū guerris ꝺe seculi pompis io¬ cunda habetur tractatio nulla custodia proꝛsus adhibe tur silencio His igitur laboribus quasi quibusdā ꝺistrac¬ tionū vinculis absoluti ad interiora animū cōuertentes. cellē secretū amemus oracōni et lectioni crebrius insistan mus librorum sanctoꝝ patrū cum ꝺeuocōne scribanus escas animā pascentes queramus quia nr̄is laboribus corpora nutrire nō possumꝰ Qui nescit scribere ab alijs ꝺiscat qͥ sciūt suāqꝫ voluntatē subdat obedientie si penā ociose manducantiū cupit euadere Semper em̄ quibus instruātur scriptores frater ꝺeuotus inueniet Et qꝛ bo¬ na volūtas meretur gratiā ut pijs incrementis semp̄ ꝓfi¬ ciat cōgruis stipendijs est crebrius honoranda Abbas igitur fratres suos ad obediendum promptos ad scribendū voluntarios ac hilares esse ꝑspexerit ampliori beniuolentia ꝓsequat: gratijs honoret cōgruis oneraqꝫ interdū relaxet ceteroꝝ Et qꝛ tales ꝺeuoti fratres ꝓpter obedientiā et amorē scripturaꝝ semetippos negligūt abbas in om̄ibus eis necessarijs abundātius qͣꝫ ceteris pui ꝺeat qui tales esse et inueniri contemnūt Hoc enim fa¬ ciens et bonos in studio sancto consernabit et alios ad imitationē eoꝝ prouocabit Semitas tamen huius opi nionis pretextu nō transgrediatur.","segment":16,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"35","number":35},{"label":"36","number":36}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-17","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0017","latin":"An sit cōmendabile in teno¬\nbijs multos habere codices.\nCap̄ .xiiij.\nSunt nōnulli qui amatoꝛes libroꝝ de multi¬\ntudine. velut nimietate rep̄hendunt. dicentes\nad institutionē bone vite codices paucos suffī¬\ncere: qui doceant nos vicia fugere. et virtutes\namare. Aiūt em̄ ad eos quos diligere libros cōspicuunt.\nQuid vos tanta libroꝝ multitudine obruitis: cū eos le¬\ngere om̄es nō possitis quos habetis? Melius est enim\npaucos habere codices et legere: qͣꝫ multos in bibliothe¬\nca reconditos. sine lectione transire! Quibus breuiter re¬\nspondemus. Si rep̄hensibile est multa volumina habere\ncū ad scientiā salutarem pauca possent sufficere: malū sit\netiā fateantur. sanctos patres tā multa et pene innume¬\nrabilia scripsisse/ Cur Origenes sex milia. cur Augustinꝰ\nmille. cur Ambrosius ducētos. cur trecentos libros Hie¬\nronymus edidit: cū ad bone vite institutionē pauci suffu¬\nciant? An foꝛte multos scribere licet. et nō habere? Ad\nquid ergo scribūtur: si eos haberi nō licet? Si malum\nest multos libros emere: cur sancti patres tantā diligen¬\ntiā in colligendis scribendisqƺ olim fecerunt? Sic stulti\nestis ut bonū malū. et malū bonū asserentes. dum cōtra\namatoꝛes libroꝛū sine distinctione latratis. etiā obloqui\nsanctissimis patribus non timetis: quoꝝ dū imitatoꝛes\nrep̄henditis. quasi male p̄cesserint illi arguitis! Si malū\nest imitari: quomō p̄cessisse bonū erit? Sed qꝛ sanctorū\nstudiū iuste nō potes rep̄hedere: si sapis. cessa eoꝝ ini¬\ntatoꝛes lacerare. Nā si illis bonū fuit: nec istis malū erit.\nEcce tu aurū et argentū cōgregas: agrū agro copulas:\net malū nō iudicas! Sed dicis. Pecunias colligere ꝓ in¬\nstanti fratrū necessitate, puidētie est: et in futurū recōdere\niuste rationis. Libros autem tam innumeros emere nō\nprouidentie. sed curiositatis est! O imperator cupidita¬\ntis. o auaricie princeps: quid honestatis non oppugnat\nignauia tua? Quid nō corrodit scua cupiditas? C ij\n\nUt amatores sacre scientie vituperes: auariciā cōmen¬das Ex abundātia cordis tui os loquitur: et ꝙ sapiētie aduersarius sis tuus sermo testatur/ Nō est quā simulas p̄uidentia sed auaricia: nō fratrū necessitas: sed auri cu piditas! O disti disciplinā et sermones dn̄i p̄iecisti retror¬sum: et quasi de isigni iusticia gloriario Sed trāseant hec: alio tempore p̄cessura in publicū Om̄es autē libri bonarū artiū boni sunt: maxime qui ad intellectum sacre scripture cōducūt Malū ergo non est bonos habere li¬bros: nisi prohibitio faciat illicitū. Sed nullū inuenitur p̄ceptū: qd̓ multitudinē libroꝝ phibeat. Quid igitur nobis de copia librōrum insultas? Cur sanctū et necessariū in ecclesia studiū cōdemnas? Bonū est cōstanter ausum dicere. et multos et bonos in cenobio habere codices: qui bus fratrū p̄moueatur studiū: etiā si om̄es legere nō sufficiant Secularium quoqꝫ auctoritatum monachorum bibliothecis nō sunt repellenda: sine quoꝝ noticia diui¬nos libros nō estimo quenqͣꝫ perfecte intelligere Nā si antiquorū patrū nrī ordinis bibliothecas p̄scrutemur ( ut Bede in anglia. Rabani in fulda. Haymonis in hirfel dia. Petri in viuario. Notgeri apud sanctū gallū. Gui mūdi ad beatū leufredū. Sigeberti in gemblacho. He¬rigeri quoqꝫ apud lobias: aliorūqꝫ doctissimoy ac venetabiliū patrū qui scientia et sanctitate in ecclesia dei clauerūt) inueniemus copiam libroꝝ in omni facultate. in omni scientia. in om̄i doctrina: qd̓ etiā ex eoꝝ opusculis facile possumus agnoscere: dū in om̄i litteratura tā diuinā qͣꝫ hūana periti fuisse declarāt Horū exempla imitari monachis honorabile et vtile est Ceterū nichil est in hac vita tam pium. tam salubre. tam sanctū. quo volūtas mala nō possit abuti: sic etiam de librōrum multitudine poterit euenire: si nō dei et scripturaꝝ amor. sed curiositas vel elatio fuerit in causa! Taqueat igitur is qui colligendis voluminibus inuigilat: ne appetitum suum in vanitate ponatur Studeat intentionē ad debitū finem dirigere: si non vult a bono deuiare.","segment":17,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"37","number":37},{"label":"38","number":38}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-18","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0018","latin":"De custodia et mūdicia libror̄ habenda.\nCap̄ .xu.\nCUm thesaurus maximꝰ ecclesie copia sit scrip\nturarū: qͥ libros sanctos diligenter custodire\nnegligit: iniuriā ecclesie facit. Arma em̄ quibʒ\nse cōtra hereticos muniat libri sunt: quos qui\nvel distrah vel perire patitur: minus ecclesiā dilige re cō¬\nprobatur. Quā si amaret ut debuit: suis eā spoliare ar¬\nmis nequaqƺ ꝑmitteret/ Amatores itaqʒ libroꝛū atten¬\nsius exhortamur. ut bibliothecā sollicite custodiāt: aut ta\nlibus cōmendent armarijs. qui nichil ex ea surripi ꝑmit¬\ntant/ Ex bibliothecis facile monachoꝝ disciplina cogno\nscitur: et qͥd studeant ex libris cito anīaduerti potest Si\nad domū tuā venero non est opus interrogem te qͥd stu¬\ndeas: volumina tua dabūt testimoniū de actionibʒ tuis/\nCodices tui honorātur. Si negligi¬\ngis illos. negligent te: si cōtemnis. cōtemnent tel Deniqʒ\nqui cōtemnūt me (ait sapientia dei que in libris agnosci\ntur) erunt ignobiles/ Si volumina tua scamnis lacera\nvolant. si pulueribus operiūtur: si maculata intus. si fo¬\nris incōposita fuerint: indoctū te et fuconē ꝓclamabūt:\netiā si doctor habearis Quomodo doctrinā amare po¬\nteris: si libros informatoꝛes tuos cōtemnis et negligis?\nSicut sapientia puri cordis habitaculū et diligit et in¬\nhabitat: sic amator sapientie libroꝝ mundiciā et ornatū\namat. Nam qui domū alicuius lacerat: q̄ inhabitante\nnon vereatur manifestat. Et qui libros diuinarū vel hu¬\nmanarū scripturarū negligenter et immūde tractat: cō¬\ntentā in eis scientiā se non amare probat Philobiblos\nitaqʒ noster ꝓ custodia et ornatu libroꝝ summū impen¬\ndat studiū: secundū materias vel dignitates ordinet li¬\nbros ad pulpitu: ut studiosi frēs. citius inuenire poffint\nqd̕ queritant Nullā de sua bibliotheca materia abijcien\ndam existimet: preter dogmata hereticorū: quia nullus\n\nliber tam exilis est.qui non ad aliquam vtilitatem possit cōducere! Sit bibliotheca sub tuta custodia: nec passim omnibus pateat:sed illis dūtaxat. quos amor et studium scripturarū cōmendat. Multa em̄ bibliothecis damna illata cognouimus: eo ꝙ sine discretione paterent vniuer sis / Nec de locis suis libri facile emittendi sunt:nisi sub fide.et certa fiducia/ Habeantur omniū libraryum biblio these inuentaria: vt nichil distrahi posset vel amitti/Zelotes insuper noster disciplinarū vtiliū. eos quos diligit libros nōnunqꝫ visitet: et qͣꝫ recte se habeant diligentissime exploret/Deniqꝫ nō sit parcus et unuidus ad cōmuni candū studiosis de bibliotheca volumina:quia thesaurus occultus et sapientia abscondita:velut inutiles comprobātur/Quotienscūqꝫ ergo petitur ad rescribenda von lumina studiosis lihenter accomodet:sub certa tamen fun dei cautione:quatenus et suū thesaurum cenobio custodi dat : et alios sine sini diminutione diuites faciat/ Qui cuniqꝫ autē libros ad rescribendū sub fide recipit.caueat diligenter ne illos aut fedet aut laceret:sed iuxta sententiam dum regulā pro studijs accipiunt.caueant ne illos maculent vel destruant: sed cum deuocōne et puritate legentes inimaculatos custodiant/Si quis autem codices negligenter et sordide tractauerit: ut sacrilegus et dissipator rerū monasterij puniatur: ita ut eius emendatio ceteris fiat in exemplū / Sed quid multis sup̄ librorū custodia immorauitur sermonibus? Qui illos diligunt sine dubio colunt et seruant.etiā nobis tacentibus:quod imperitis frustra suadere non possimus.Stulti em̄ studia contemnūt peritoꝝ: et volumina non diligūt.nisi suis vanitatibus conformia/His igitur omīssis ad nostrorū qui libros et amant et legunt.cohortationem accedamus.\nB\n103","segment":18,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"39","number":39},{"label":"40","number":40}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-19","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0019","latin":"Exhortatio ad studiū et amo-\nrem scripturarum.\nCap̄.xvj.\nIAm nũc igitur charissimi fratres.cohortatio\nnem nostrã cum beniuolentia suscipite: et ad\nscribendos libros sacre doctrine vos sedulo\np̃parate. Ex his em̃ que in cõmendationem\nscriptoꝝ exposuimus aduertitis: quid de tali officio sen¬\ntire debeatis. Nolite ergo tantũ bonũ negligere: nolite\na scribendi studio cessare. Scriptura enim est que vos\nquodāmodo reddit immortales: et etiã post mortem su¬\nperstites. Agant singuli qđ volunt: glorientur in officio\nnon fuissent. cito deueniũt: vestra autẽ memoria ex libris\nquos scribitis. cũ gloria transibit ad posteros. Nec dici¬\nmus ꝙ hac intencōne debeatis scribere: cũ id preter iu¬\ntentionē possit euenire. Absit procul a sancto opere tam\nstulta cupiditas: ut famã pro laboris premio cõcupiscat\ninanem. Si autẽ noĩa vr̃a codicibus a vobis scriptis vo\nlueritis imprimere: ea intencōne faciendum est. vt uelad\nsuffragiũ posteros vel ad imitatione intendatis, puocare\nTali em̄ intuitu. codicibꝫ vr̃is nominũ titulos secure et\nlicite potestis subscribere. Uobis etiã o venerādi scripto\nres. vtilia ex intencōne scribentibus post mortē acciden¬\ntale meritū subuenire nõ inmerito creditur: quotiens ad\npenitentiã aliqͥs ex vr̃a scriptura ꝓuocatur. Vos paupe¬\nres nichil habetis. vnde possitis elemosynã facere: neqꝫ\npossidetis aliqͥd vt pro vr̃i memorìa testamentũ valeatis\ncõfirmare. Audite ergo meũ consiliũ: ne sine testamento\nnotabili.ab hac vita decedatis. Libros et opuscula san¬\nctorum patrũ cũ diligentia scribite: et testamentũ glorio\nsum feceritis.Nam si elemosyna ꝑanis etaque exigua.tã\n\nefficaciter peccatū extinguit: qđ tam ingens pietas scrip¬\ntorũ non poterit? Si copiose remunerabitur apud deũ\nqui pauperes hic pascit morti obnoxios: quãto premio\ndonandi estis. qui animas pascitis immortales? Spiri¬\ntualia em̃ dona carnalibus iure p̃ferũtur. Uiuãt manus\nille ac feliciter cubent: que nobis tot sanctoꝝ patrũ volu¬\nmina suis laboribus cõscripserũt. Beati scriptoris vene¬\nrandi labores: quibus tam magnifice sustentatur fideliũ\nmater ecclesia. Sit memoria illoꝝ apud altissimũ: et no¬\nmina scriptorũ in libro vite sine fine cõscripta ꝑmaneat\nReddat illis dñs laborum suoꝝ inestimabile premiũ: et\nab eius cõspectu nunqͣꝫ separentur. Bibant illic de fonti¬\nbus saluatoris: qui nobis suis officijs potũ propinauere\nsalutis. Uiuant viuãt: et ineternũ feliciter viuant: qui no¬\nbis ad beneviendũ tam opportuna consilia tradiderũt\nFacite et vobis testamenta huiusmodi sanctitatis: que\nnulla vnqͣꝫ obliuione peribũt. Libros iam scribebite dum\nviuitis: et post mortẽ copiosum fructũ colligetis. A scri¬\nbendo labor nullus vos terreat: nulla voluptas prepe¬\ndiat: plus vestre saluti conducet sanctoꝝ volumina reno¬\nvando scribere: qͣꝫ perituris diuicijs pauperes ditare.\nEt illud quidē vobis nō tam difficile q̃ꝫ impossibile est.\nSectentur sua studia homines mundani: ocio vacent\nmonachi dissoluti: abbates stolidi. in equis delectentur:\nvagi ludant alij in auibus celi. in canibus alij discurrãt\nvenaticis: vos in lege dñi meditantes litteris sanctis cõ¬\nsulite: et ecclesie vestris laboribus in futurũ prouidete.\nLicet aurũ sine modo sitiant plurimi. licet agrum agro¬\ncopulent. licet ruituras domus in altum edificent: vos\nnominis vestri famā in altioribus scitote consistere: qui¬\nbus de mũdo non expedit similia cogitare. Uos mũdo\naltiores estis: nolite vos turpiter inferiori submittere.\nContemnite fortiter: quẽ sine culpa nō potestis diligere.\nScribite libros sanctoꝝ eosqꝫ cum deuocõne legendos\ninspicite: quia nichil vobis ad contemptum mũdi adeo\nproficit qͣꝫ si cum amore scripturis studium impendatis.</","segment":19,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"41","number":41},{"label":"42","number":42}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-20","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0020","latin":"Hec em̄ sacratissima scientia. lucerna pedibus nr̄is est: ne in via hac plena tenebris qua gradimur offendamus: ip̄a comes nr̄i itineris ne erremus. Hec ꝓ speculo menti fideliū opponitur: ut facies interior clare videatur. Nam quēadmodū vultus nostri maculas in speculo materiali cōspicimus: ita in sacra scriptura actionū nostraꝝ negli gentias videmus. Illa em̄ delinquentes nos corripit: tor pentes pungit: negligentes excitat: ignaros informat. Magnū et incredibile bonū nobis sancta scriptura cōferre dinoscitur: si cū humili deuotione attentius legatur Nam intellectū nostrū ad eruditionē illuminat: mentē a mūdivanitatibus elongat: et in dei amorem reformat. Sepe em̄ illius familiaritate abstracti eousqꝫ a mūdi cōcupiscentijs diuidimur: ut nō esse in mūdo nobis videamur. Et quāto in eius amore diutius cōsistimus: tanto minus de seculi varietate cogitamus. Uera naͣqꝫ leticia que de sola veritate que deus est vires accipit: huiꝰ muͣdi tā blanda qͣꝫ aspera velut stercora cōtemnit. Nocet em̄ seruis dei huius mūdi intensius cogitata felicitas. Maior autē et salubrior leticia in hac vita nō acquiritur: qͣꝫ si mens bene sibi conscia. in sacris lr̄is cū amore occupeatur. mentē hoīs inestimabili gaudio letificat: quedum a suo amatore cū pietate discutitur: cordis oculus incōtemplatione celestiū dulciter soporatur. Nichil adeo monachū ab amore huius mūdi separat: qͣꝫ si animū suum sacris lectionibus cū desiderio om̄i tempore impendat. Eulogia siquidē sanctispūs in diuinis scripturis haben tur: que dū intenta lectione ꝑcurrimus: vim diuini amo ris qͣꝫ suauissime ꝑcipimus. Non sum charitatis dei ex pertus tam valens incendiū: sicut amorosam scientiam sanctarū scripturarū. Ama illā. et exaltabit te corā deo et hominibus: omniaqꝫ bona pariter cū illa possidebis. Nam qui eā veraciter tenet: omnia possidet. Doctrix est em̄ discipline dei: et habet cognitionē eius amicā. Nūc ergo frates audite me: et haͣc matrē pulchre dilectionis\n\nomni deuocōne excolite: ut eius ministerio ad thronum glorie magni dei ꝑduci mereamini. In curia em̄ celestis imperatoris ista mater velut regina notissima est. Intueamus o fratres nostriordinis monachos reuerendissimos qui magno desiderio sanctaꝝ scripturaꝝ olim flagrauerūt: eorūque sancta studia quantum possimus iniitemur: ut ad gloriam quā doctrina et sanctitate domino largiente adepti sunt.nos quoque venire mercamur. Nemo in excusationē sui dicat.non queo sine docente proficere: cū preceptores semꝑ positis inuenire. Gentis vestre purgate horrem: et deus triticū faciet inferri scripturarū. Spiritus em̄ sanctus discipline effugiet fictū: nec habitabit in corpore subdito peccatis. Mūdana est ergo domus conscientie.ut digna fiat habitatio scripturā: qꝛ monachus qđ sacras scripturas vult vtiliter discere: a correctione mo rum debet inchoare. Nec oporet vos ꝓpter studium monasterii deserere: quia vnde ꝓficiatis domipotestis inuenerit. Multos em̄ doctissimos monachos olim in ordine ne nostro claruisse cognouimus: quos tantum in cenobijs studuisse scimus.Beda presbiter et monachus vndecūque peritissimum septenīs cenobio traditus fuit: in quo quicqd scripturarū didicit hausit. Tuius discipuli fuerunt inter ceteros erudissimi.Alcuinus preceptor postea Caroli magni.Claudiis.et Iohannes Scotus monachi.in omni doctrina tam diuina q̃ seculari excellentes.greco et latino sermone instructi.quoꝝ multa p̄clara extant opuscula.Rabanus abbas et Magūtinus archiep̄pus pene ad huc puer Fuldensi monasterio traditur: qđ quātum in omni scientia profecerit eius volumina testantur.Hunc tamen abbas suis Fuldensis studij causā in Franciam misit ad Alcuinū abbatē cuius iam fecimus mentionem.sub cuius magisterio multis annis perseuerauit in cenobio.Strabus monachus fuldensis discipulus et scribe Rabani abbatis fuisset dicitur: qui iuuenis cenobio datus.doctor insignis effulsit.Sic Haymo.sic Notgerus.sic Hermannus contractus.sic alij pene innumerabiles moo P","segment":20,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"43","number":43},{"label":"44","number":44},{"label":"45","number":45},{"label":"46","number":46}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-21","id":"trc:prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium:seg-0021","latin":"nachi doctores excellētes sunt habiti: q̇ sub regula sancti Benedicti humiliter cōuersantes . cenobia ꝓ gymnasijs habuerūt. Nec dicimus illis defuisse magistros: q̇ alioꝝ p̄ceptores habiti sunt. Magistros omnino habuerunt: sed monachos et regularis vite cōsocios.qui eos nō mi¬nus vita qͣꝫ doctrina instruebant. Nos quoqꝫ magistros forsitan inueniremus: si vellemus esse discipuli. Nisi enim humilitas et amor scripturarum mutuo sibi cōsentiant: monachorum studia nec expediunt ordini.nec proficiūt.\nAmor em̄ scripturaꝝ sine humilitate regularis vite disciplinā destruit: humilitas sine amore ad scientiā earundē non ꝑtingit.Qui ergo in cenobio doctus fieri desiderat: hec duo inuiolabiliter conseruet.Imitemur sanctos pa¬tres diuinis scripturis cum humili amore insistentes: et quod illis gratia diuina contulit:nobis orantium et le¬gentibus sedule nō negabit.Quāto em̄ quisqꝫ in lectione assiduus fuerit:tanto fructum ex eis vberiorem capit.\nFructus autē quē in sacris scripturis querimꝰ: amor dei et proximi est:et nr̄i agnitio pijssimi saluatoris.\nDesideratus finis huic ꝑ qͣꝫ eleganti opusculo fauste imponitur ꝑ Friedbergen̄.impressorem Ma guntinū Anno virginei partus.M.cccc.xciij.\nMonasterij Chypensis.\n\nBIBLIOTECA REGIA\nUNIVERSITATIS MONACENSIS","segment":21,"source":{"mapping_precision":"approximate","pages":[{"label":"46","number":46}]}}],"transform_version":"passage-index-v1","work":{"id":"prdl-24362_de-laude-scriptorum-manualium","source":{"provider":"BSB","url":"http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00037424/image_1"},"title":"De Laude Scriptorum Manualium","title_en":"In Praise of Scribes","witness_id":"prdl-24362"}}