"The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles."
— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Work Title
Date
1389
Metaphor
"The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles."
Metaphor in Context
The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles. þe formest hatte ymaginatua, þerin þingis þat þe vttir witte apprehendiþ withoute beþ i-ordeyned and iput togedres witthinne, vt dicitur Iohannicio I. þe middil chamber hatte logica þerin þe vertu estimatiue is masiter. þe þridde and þe laste is memoratiua, þe vertu of mynde. þat vertu holdiþ and kepiþ in þe tresor of mynde þyngis þat beþ apprehended and iknowe bi þe ymaginatif and racio.
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Categories
Provenance
Contributed by Suzanne Morgen. See Carolyn P. Collette. Species, Phantasms, and Images: Medieval Psychology in 'The Canterbury Tales'. University of Michigan Press, 2001. pp. 6-7. <Link to Google Books>
Citation
Bartholomeus Anglicus. On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum. Ed. M. C. Seymour et. al. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.
Date of Entry
06/02/2009
Date of Review
06/03/2009
