The Monologium
Anselm’s first major work, “an example of meditation on the grounds of faith”: the being of God, the Trinity and the human mind’s relation to its Creator, argued in seventy-nine chapters by reason alone, without appeal to Scripture. The Latin is the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 158, 1853), from a machine-corrected OCR, with the chapter summaries; the English is Sidney Norton Deane’s 1903 translation, which follows the Latin chapter for chapter and keeps the translator’s two notes.
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Source: The complete text with its chapter divisions and PL chapter summaries. PL page breaks, the column numbers and the apparatus of alternative chapter numbers (al.) are dropped; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed. Dialogue turns are set as separate paragraphs. The OCR carries a few residual slips. · The Monologium only (Deane’s introduction, Gaunilo’s pleading and Anselm’s reply are not imported). Chapter titles are Deane’s chapter headings; translator’s notes are kept as footnotes.