Benjamin Minor: The Twelve Patriarchs

Name: Benjamin Minor: The Twelve Patriarchs
Author: Richard of St. Victor

Richard of St. Victor

This book is in Latin.

Richard’s treatise on the preparation of the soul for contemplation, read through the story of Jacob’s twelve sons, Rachel and the youngest, Benjamin: how reason and affection are ordered by the virtues before the mind is lifted up. 87 chapters. Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 196, 1855), a machine-corrected OCR.

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.