Tria Opuscula: Breviloquium, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 7 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~130,000 words · 598 passages
Cite this work
- APABonaventure. (n.d.). Tria Opuscula: Breviloquium, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bonaventure/tria-opuscula-breviloquium-itinerarium-mentis-in-deum-de-reductione-artium-ad-theologiam
- MLABonaventure. Tria Opuscula: Breviloquium, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bonaventure/tria-opuscula-breviloquium-itinerarium-mentis-in-deum-de-reductione-artium-ad-theologiam.
- ChicagoBonaventure. Tria Opuscula: Breviloquium, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bonaventure/tria-opuscula-breviloquium-itinerarium-mentis-in-deum-de-reductione-artium-ad-theologiam.
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What it is about
Three short works of Bonaventure in Latin: the 'Breviloquium', the 'Itinerarium mentis in Deum' and the 'De reductione artium ad theologiam'.
Context and history
The 'Itinerarium' is the most read and the most beautiful: six steps by which to climb from the things of the world to God, written in 1259 on Mount La Verna, where Francis had received the stigmata thirty-three years before. The mind ascends by looking first at the outer world, then at the soul, then at what is above it, and the last step is not a thought but a silence. The 'Breviloquium' is a systematic summary of the whole of theology in a few pages, and the 'De reductione' holds that all the arts and sciences lead to the same light. Bonaventure was a Franciscan and an exact contemporary of Thomas Aquinas: his works are the way to see the other road of scholasticism, the one that goes by love rather than by argument.
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(!) Quinque libri legales sunt: Genesis, Exodus. Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomium ; decem Aistorinles sunt: losue, Indicum libr! quatuor Regum, libri Paralipomenon duo, libri Esdrae tres, libri Tobiae, ludith, Esther, lob et libri Machabaeorum duo; quinque sapientiales: Parabolne, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, liber Saplentiae et Ecclesiasticus; sex prophetnles: solas, leremias, Ezechiel. Daniel, liber Psalmorum et libri duodecim Prophetarum minorum (ita exhibentur libri veteris testomenii in. Centl-: loq. p. IIl. sect. 32, quod opusculum hucusque. communiter licet falso, S. Bonaventurae adiudicabatur) Cfr. tomen. Conc. Trident. sess. 4, ubi recensetur tantum liber Esdrae primus et secundus (non (res), additur liber Ruth et dicitur Ieremias cum Baruch. — Ex prologo Hieron. in 1|. Reg. colligitur, librum Ruth consideratum fuisse ut partem libri Iudicum, « quia in diebus Iudicum facta eius narratur historia »; mirum igitur non erit, quod ipse in praenotota enumeratione librorum veteris testamenti speciallter non nominetur. Quod attinet. ad. Baruch, constat. ex scriptis Seraphicl Doctoris, verba Prophcetac. saepe tum similiter habet libros his correspondentes secundum quadruplicem formam. Nam /egalibus correspondent libri evangelici, Aistorialibus, Actus apostolici, sapientialibus, Epistolae Apostolorum et maxime Pauli, prophetalibus correspondet liber Apocalypsis; ul sic mira sit conformitas inter vetus et novum testamentum, non solum in continentia sensuum, verum etiam in quadriformitate partium. — n cuius figuram ei consignationem . vidit Ezecliie] (4) rotas quatuor faeierum et rotam in medio rotae, quia vetus est in novo, et e converso; et in libris legalibus et evaugelicis est facies Jeonts propter excellentiam auetoritatis; in. historialibus est facies bovis propter exempla virtutis; in sapientialibus, est facies hominis propter prudentiam sagacem: in libris prophetalibus est (acies aquilae propter intelligentiam perspicacem. 9. lecte autem sacra.…