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The Didascalicon or art of reading was composed by Hugh of Saint-Victor before the summer 1121, when the library of his abbey was beginning to be constituted. To what extent does this program of studies at Saint-Victor clarify the history of this library? If it cannot reveal the library’s compositio...
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Cahiers de recherches médiévales
2012
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| Summary: | The Didascalicon or art of reading was composed by Hugh of Saint-Victor before the summer 1121, when the library of his abbey was beginning to be constituted. To what extent does this program of studies at Saint-Victor clarify the history of this library? If it cannot reveal the library’s composition, arrangement and the way it was used, Hugh’s treatise does inform the historian about the meaning of “reading” (lectio) at Saint-Victor, that was a process of learning that is first collective, then personal, and led, by means of arborescent divisions, to a structuring of the world and of all that can be known. The goal of all reading was to pave the way for the assimilation of Holy Scripture, but also to restore the divine image and likeness in man by replacing ignorance, the effect of original sin, by wisdom. Indeed, the requirement to know oneself, if it is well understood, results in paying attention to everything knowable. By thus reconciling interior progress and encyclopaedic curiosity, the Master of Saint-Victor established the intellectual and spiritual bases of a humanist library that would be open to all knowledge. |
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