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11 revisions	Marie Richards at Jan 10, 2023 05:09 PM	Compared with
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C.vi.

sept ars liberaulx que dieu leur envoia en terre dont
aulcuns en y eult qui voldrent enquerre que le mon
de devendroit et se jamais il prendroit fin. Si trouve
rent tout vraiement que par deux foiz il prendroit
fin. A la premiere foiz par le deluge deaue. mais nostre
seigneur ne volt a celle foiz que len sceust par lequel
che seroit avant ou par eaue ou par feu. Si eulrent
lors grant doeul et pitie des sciences acquieses lesquel
les ilz sceurent que ainsi peries seroient se par leur
sens elle nestoient garanties. A dont ilz se adviserent
dun grant sens et bonte comme ceulx qui bien sca
voient que apres le premier finement du monde se
roient ancores aultres gens pourquoy ilz fisrent
faire grans coulombes de pierres si que ilz peussent
pourtraire et entaillier en chascune pierre au moins
lune des sept ars entierement si que ilz fussent com
muns aux aultres. dont les aulcuns dient que les
unes de ches coulombes furent dune pierre tant
dure comme marbre et de telle nature que eaue ne
la povoit empirer ne ne croistre ne amendrir du
ne forte maniere de tieulles toutes entieres sans

Translation

the seven liberal arts that God had sent to them on earth. Of these,
there were some who wanted to investigated what the earth
would become and if it would ever come to an end. They
found that truly it would end twice, the first time by the Flood
of water - but at that time Our Lord did not want them to
know whether it would be by water or by fire. And then
they had great suffering and sorrow from the knowledge they
had acquired, for they had learned from it that they would
perish if they were not protected by their wisdom.
Therefore they took advice from their great wisdom and goodness,
knowing well that after the first end of the world
there would be other people, and for this reason they made
great stone columns, on each of which they were able to
draw and incise at least one of the seven arts in its entirety,
so that it would be known to those other people. Some
say that each of these columns was made of a stone
as hard as marble, and of such a nature that water could
not damage it, nor increase nor diminish it in any way, [and that each was]
wholly [covered] with a strong kind of tiles without

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C.vi.

Translation

the seven liberal arts that God had sent to them on earth. Of these,
there were some who wanted to investigated what the earth
would become and if it would ever come to an end. They
found that truly it would end twice, the first time by the Flood
of water - but at that time Our Lord did not want them to
know whether it would be by water or by fire. And then
they had great suffering and sorrow from the knowledge they
had acquired, for they had learned from it that they would
perish if they were not protected by their wisdom.
Therefore they took advice from their great wisdom and goodness,
knowing well that after the first end of the world
there would be other people, and for this reason they made
great stone columns, on each of which they were able to
draw and incise at least one of the seven arts in its entirety,
so that it would be known to those other people. Some
say that each of these columns was made of a stone
as hard as marble, and of such a nature that water could
not damage it, nor increase nor diminish it in any way, [and that it was]
wholly [covered] with a strong kind of tiles without