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Didascalicon: On the Study of Reading

Hugh of St. Victor

This book is in Latin.

Hugh’s guide to study in six books: what is to be learned, in what order and how, from the arts of philosophy (Books I-III) to the reading of Scripture, with the famous counsel to “learn everything; you will see afterwards that nothing is superfluous”. The seventh book of the Migne text, On the Three Days, is a separate book. Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 176, 1854), a machine-corrected OCR.

Contents

Source: The complete PL text with its chapter divisions. PL page breaks and column numbers are dropped, and the PL tables of chapters (which repeat the chapter headings) are not imported. The OCR carries a few residual slips.