UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LIBRARIES COLLEGE LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/didascaliconmediOOhugh THE Didascalicon OF HUGH OF VICTOR ST. NUMBER LXIV RECORDS OF CIVILIZATION SOURCES AND STUDIES THE Didascalicon HUGH OF OF VICTOR ST. A MEDIEVAL GUIDE TO THE ARTS TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY JEROME TAYLOR COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1961 Frontispiece: CONVENTIONALIZED REPRESENTATION OF HUGH OF SAINT VICTOR (Leiden, University Library, ms Vulcanianus 46, f. 130) Produced at Fulda in 1176-77, it accompanies the text ofHugh's Didascalicon. Onthe open book appears the first sentence ofthe Didascalicon: Omniumexpetendoritmprimaest sapientia in qua (perfecti boni)forma consistit (Ofall things to be sought, the first isthat Wisdomin which the Form ofthe Perfect Good stands fixed). Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 61-10982 Printed in The Netherlands