De visione Dei (De icona)
- Language:
- Latin
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- Complete work
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- Written by the author
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- Extent:
- ~24,000 words · 114 passages
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- APANicholas of Cusa. (n.d.). De visione Dei (De icona). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-visione-dei-de-icona
- MLANicholas of Cusa. De visione Dei (De icona). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-visione-dei-de-icona.
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What it is about
On the Vision of God (1453): written for the monks of Tegernsee, with a painting enclosed.
Context and history
Cusanus sent them a portrait whose gaze follows you wherever you stand, and builds the whole meditation out of that experience: how one gaze can look at all of them at once. It is philosophy that starts from an object the reader is holding. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
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cíes facierum , Quandoʻígitur attendo quomodo facies ílla jeft veritas & menfura adæquatíffima omnium facíierum:ducor in ftuporem, Non eft ením facies ílla quæ eft veritas omni facierum:quanta.quare nec maior nec minor,nec tamë eft qua lis cuiĝ:quía non eft quanta fed abfoluta & fupærexaltata, eft igitur veritas quæ eft æqualítas:ab omni quåãtítate abfoluta, Síc igitur cõpræhendo vultű tuum domine antecedere omnem faciem formabilem/ & effe exemplar ac veritatem omniû facíea rum/& omnes facies effe imagines faciei tuæ incõtrahibilis &imparticipabilis,om nis ígitur facies quæ ín tuam poteft intueri faciem:nihil videt aliud aut diuerfum a feıquía videt veritatem fuam;verítas autem exemplaris nõ poteft effe alia aut diuerfa:fed ílla accidunt ímaginí/ex eo quía non eft ipfum exemplar, Sicut igitur dä aard hanc faciem píi&am/oríentaliter infpício:fimiliter apparet g ficipfa merefpiciat,&e
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