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Sensieut la recapitulation des choses
A Tant nous metterons devant dittes
fin a nostre livre. Lequel a son commenche
ment parle de nostre seigneur dieu pour
quoy il fourma le monde et pour quoy il ama lom
me tant quil le fourma a sa samblance et lui donna
povoir de faire bien et mal. Apres pour quoy il ne
le fist tel quil ne peust pechier mortellement. Et com
ment len trouva premierement les sept ars libe
raulx et de leurs misteres. Puis parle des trois ma
nieres de gens que les anciens philosophes poserent
au monde. Comment clergie est renouvellee. et com
ment elle euvre et que cest. Et comment elle se diver
sifie en chascune de ses euvres. Aussi avey ouy de la
faiture du monde. Et de la division des quatre elemens
qui sont alenviron lesquelz se tiennent au firmament
Et comment la terre se tient tout e[nmi?]y le firma
ment. Si avez ouy de la petitite de la terre au re
gard du ciel. Et aussi comment le soleil y fait so
tour alenviron et les aultres planettes pareille.
ment. Tout che avez vous ouy en la premiere par

[rubric:] Here follows a recapitualtion of what was said above. [/rubric]
And thus we bring our book to an end. At the beginning it speaks
of Our Lord God, why He made the world and why He loved
man so much that He formed him in His image and gave him
the ability to do good and evil. And after, why He did not make
it so that man could not commit mortal sin. And how the seven
liberal arts were first invented, and of their mysteries. Then it
speaks of the three kinds of people that the ancient philosophers
considered there to be in the world. How scholarship was renewed,
and how it works and what it is. (see note) And how she differs in each of
her works. And you heard of the creation of the world,
and of the division of the four elements that are all around it,
and which are in the firmament. And how the earth holds itself
in the middle of the firmament. Then you heard about the
smallness of the earth compared to the sky, and also how the
sun makes its course around it, and similarly for the other
planets. You heard all of this in the first part

Sensieut la recapitulation des choses
A Tant nous metterons devant dittes
fin a nostre livre. Lequel a son commenche
ment parle de nostre seigneur dieu pour
quoy il fourma le monde et pour quoy il ama lom
me tant quil le fourma a sa samblance et lui donna
povoir de faire bien et mal. Apres pour quoy il ne
le fist tel quil ne peust pechier mortellement. Et com
ment len trouva premierement les sept ars libe
raulx et de leurs misteres. Puis parle des trois ma
nieres de gens que les anciens philosophes poserent
au monde. Comment clergie est renouvellee. et com
ment elle euvre et que cest. Et comment elle se diver
sifie en chascune de ses euvres. Aussi avey ouy de la
faiture du monde. Et de la division des quatre elemens
qui sont alenviron lesquelz se tiennent au firmament
Et comment la terre se tient tout e[nmi?]y le firma
ment. Si avez ouy de la petitite de la terre au re
gard du ciel. Et aussi comment le soleil y fait so
tour alenviron et les aultres planettes pareille.
ment. Tout che avez vous ouy en la premiere par

[rubric:] Here follows a recapitualtion of what was said above. [/rubric]
And thus we bring our book to an end. At the beginning it speaks
of Our Lord God, why he made the world and why he loved
man so much that he formed him in his image and gave him
the ability to do good and evil. And after, why He did not make
it so that man could not commit mortal sin. And how the seven
liberal arts were first invented, and of their msyteries. Then it
speaks of the three kinds of people that the ancient philosophers
considered there to be in the world. How the clergy is renewed,
and how it works and what it is. (see note) And how it differs in each of
its works. And you heard of the creation of the world,
and of the division of the four elements that are all around it,
and which are in the firmament. And how the earth holds itself
in the middle of the firmament. Then you heard about the
smallness of the earth compared to the sky, and also how the
sun makes its course around it, and similarly for the other
planets. You heard all of this in the first part