Edmund of Abingdon: Speculum Religiosorum and Speculum EcclesieOUP/British Academy, 1973 - 125 pages The Speculum Ecclesie, by which title it is commonly known, of St Edmund of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury (1234-40), has come down in various versions in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English. The present edition comprises the original Latin text, which has never before been printed, and for comparison, printed en face, the vulgate Latin text, which is a translation of one of the Anglo-Norman versions. Manuscript evidence suggests that the Speculum must almost certainly have been written before Edmund became archbishop in 1234, and even before the 1220s. The chief authority for the treatise, apart from the scriptures, is High of St Victor, and the Speculum is, in fact, a skilful summa of Hugh's teaching on the life of meditation and contemplation which should be the ideal of the religious. Edmund has drawn together and systemized advice and instruction scattered in many places in Hugh's ascetical and theological writings. |
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Page 73 - Pater noster, qui es in coelis; sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in coelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem R. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
Page 90 - O vos omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus,' and to pray them to stay and hear me.
Page 23 - It has been permitted to me to have had that experience ; it is not at all permitted to me to express it in speech.
Page 111 - the day of doom that schal be saved ; qui cum Patre et Spiritu sancto vivis et regnas Deus per omnia secula. Amen, THE END OF THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Page 73 - Et iterum dico vobis: Facilius est camelum per foramen acus transire, quam divitem intrare in regnum caelorum.
Page 42 - Sancto per mortem tuam mundum vivificasti : libera me, per hoc sacrosanctum corpus et hunc sanguinem tuum, a cunctis iniquitatibus meis, et ab universis malis : et fac me tuis semper obedire mandatis : et a te nunquam in perpetuum permittas separari: qui cum Deo Patre, et eodem Spiritu Sancto, vivis et regnas Deus : per omnia saecula sasculorum.
Page 91 - Jesu traditur, servus pro Domino, discipulus pro magistro; filius Zebedaei pro Filio Dei, homo purus pro Deo vero!
Page 4 - Catalogue of the MSS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin, 1900).
Page 110 - Christus passus est pro nobis, vobis relinquens exemplum, ut sequamini vestigia eius. Qui peccatum non fecit, пес inventus est dolus in ore eius; qui cum malediceretur, non maledicebat; cum pateretur, non comminabatur, tradebat autem iudicanti se iniuste; qui peccata nostra ipse pertulit in corpore suo super lignum, ut peccatis mortui, iustitiae vivamus: cuius livore sanati estis»).
Page 107 - ... intelligamus eum intra omnia sed non inclusum, extra omnia sed non exclusum. Et ideo interiorem ut non contineat, ideo exteriorem ut incircumscripta magnitudinis suae immensitate omnia concludat. Taio, Sententiae, I, 2 (= Gregory, Homil. in Ezech., II, Hom. 5, n. 11, PL 76:991): Deus omnipotens ipse est interior et exterior, ipse inferior et superior: regendo superior, portando inferior; replendo interior, circumdando exterior. Sicque est intus ut extra sit, sic circumdat ut penetret ; sic praesidet...