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On the Instruction of the Inner Man

Richard of St. Victor

This book is in Latin.

Richard’s instruction of the inner man in three books, from Nebuchadnezzar’s dream to the rule of life: self-knowledge, the passions and the ascent to contemplation. Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 196, 1855), 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.