The Virtues of a Religious Superior (De Sex Alis Seraphim)
Translated by Sabinus Higgins
Get it in Sphinx
Coming soon to iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist to hear when Sphinx opens.
The opening
PROLOGUE
“Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him.”
As an intelligent man, who frequently becomes wiser through the folly of others, finds even in trifling occurrences matter for increasing his store of knowledge, so newly appointed superiors, who may not be fully prepared for distinguishing between what is right and what is wrong in the discharge of their duties, may find inducements in this treatise to give the matter more earnest reflection and seek from the study of the imperfections here described to acquire a better knowledge of the higher and more useful things as well as of many others necessary to a religious superior in the government of inferiors. For we read that scientists have been led to deduce tertain practical principles from the careful study of the habits of certain animals.
The whole book is in the Sphinx app.
About this edition
- The words
- Sabinus Higgins's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
- The scan's cover, read as characters by the OCR
- Archive.org's notice ("Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Toronto") (4 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places
- The copyright notice ("Copyright, 1919, by Joseph Gummersbach") and printer's line (4 blocks)
- A library stamp on page 109 ("ST. MICH..."), read as characters by the OCR (4 blocks)
- The closing line "THE END"
- The library's stamp ("THE INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES ... TORONTO") and accession number (2 blocks)