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De naturis rerum, libri duo - With the Poem of the Same Author, De laudibus divinae sapientiae (Paperback)
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De naturis rerum, libri duo - With the Poem of the Same Author, De laudibus divinae sapientiae (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
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Thomas Wright (1810 77) was a highly prolific scholar of Old and
Middle English and archaeology, although some of his work,
particularly that on prehistory, was contentious. The present work,
which he edited and published in 1863, comprises two texts by
Alexander Neckam (1157 1217). The son of Richard I's foster mother,
Neckam was a respected teacher and prolific scholar who became
abbot of Cirencester. The larger of these texts, De naturis rerum,
consists of a scientific manual followed by a theological treatise,
a commentary on Ecclesiastes. Neckam later produced an abbreviated
verse form of this, the second text found here. The first part of
each text is a compendium of all the scientific knowledge of
western Europe and England in the twelfth century, which Neckam
aimed to treat morally as well as factually. In producing this
edition, Wright has included the Latin marginal annotations,
possibly by Neckam himself, found in his manuscript exemplars.
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