The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...considerationis: the adjective caritativus, according to Ducange, occurs only in Rymer, VIII, p. 101. Besides this one instance in the Philobiblon, I have noticed ex intentione caritativi affectus, Albericns, Serm. in Scholasticam, p. 944, t. 66. The word is probably not earlier than the eleventh century. 14: 2 amor extaticus: The highest or Divine love is ecstatic, according to Bionysius, the source of; mediaeval mystical theology. 'Eon Si Kai CKoraTiKbc 6 GcZof cpoc, De Div. Nom. IV, 13. It takes a man out of himself (tK-araoic) and devotes him to the object of his love. So De Bury's amor extaticus made his passion for book-gathering unselfish, for his intentio was to gather books for others. See chapter xviii. 14:9 modernorum: moderni is the antithesis to antiqui (see title to c. ix), and first occurs in Cassiodorus, Var. IV, 51, Antiquorum diligentissimus imitator, modernorum nobilissimus institutor. 14: 18 Philobiblon is composed carelessly from 0i'Aof and jiiptoc. (W/3t/3f is good Greek for a book-lover. Strabo says of Apellicon that he was QiMBtp? fia.X2mi fi tfiXdoottog, Lib. xiii. Philobiblon is perhaps compounded with /3i'/Jov in the accusative to show the object: "book-love," "de amore librorum." The form Philobiblion has no warrant in the MSS., and was first printed in the Paris edition of 1500. See p. 43. 15 The list of chapter titles is given in collected form immediately after the prologue in all the best MSS., as well as in many others, and is an integral part of the text. I think it is evident that the prologue, with the summary of chapter titles added, was written by Richard de Bury after he had finished the twenty chapters of the book, and then prefixed. The statement in the prologue, per viginti divisus capitula (14: ...