Date: 1389
"Remigius diffineth a soule in this manere: a soule is a bodiles substaunce reulinge a body."
preview | full record— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Date: 1389
"The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles."
preview | full record— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Date: 1390
"Minerve for the hed thei soghten, / For sche was wys, and of a man / The wit and reson which he can / Is in the celles of the brayn, / Wherof thei made hire soverain."
preview | full record— Gower, John (c. 1330-1408)
Date: c. 1400
"Minde is clepid a principal my3te, for it conteneþ in it goostly not only alle þe oþer mi3tes, þot þerto alle þo þinges in þe whiche þei worchen."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: c. 1420
"Thou woost wel, who shal an hous edifie / Gooth nat ther-to withoute avisament / If he be wys, for with his mental ye / First is it seen, purposid, cast & ment, / How it shal wroght been, elles al is shent."
preview | full record— Hoccleve [Occleve], Thomas (c.1367-1426)
Date: Trans. 1425
"þe brayn..is þe place & þe habitacioun of þe resonable soule, as G[alen] hym selfe seid."
preview | full record— Guy de Chauliac (c.1300-1368)
Date: Trans. c. 1425
"The gate also of mynde is schitt, þat it haþ no mynde of þe world ne of his owne sensible feelynge."
preview | full record— St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Date: Trans. 1425
"Haue alle þe ylke cifers togedur in þi mynde, a-rowe ychon aftur other."
preview | full record— Johannes de Sacrobosco or Sacro Bosco; John of Holywood (c. 1195 - c. 1256)
Date: w. c. 1425-1440
"Then wolle the chambir of my thought trewly / Of plesaunce take a light in eche parté / Such ioy wolle him aray so fresshe and hy / That waken must myn heuy hert slepé / Out of his fowle and sluggissh slogardé."
preview | full record— Charles [d'Orléans], duke of Orléans (1394-1465)
Date: c. 1440-1450
"Vnderstondying is þe sy3t in þe ey3e of soule, desire is þe ere & þe herying of the soule, dely3t is þe mowth & þe swelwying of þi soule, Mynde is þe nase & þe smellyng of þi soule; wyll & consent is þe felyng of þi soule."
preview | full record— Anonymous