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Vincent of Beauvais

or VINworks cover the whole field of mediæval was a Dominican friar. His voluminous science. The chief is "The Greater Mirtre chapters; it comprises Natural, science. The chief is "The Greater Mirin three huge volumes of 80 books and pædia of fables, science, literature, etc., 9,885 cha Moral, is by another hand. Part i. (ed. 1473 9,885 chapters; it comprises Natural, 1473-1476) contains 848 folio pages, and treats of the whole visible world, and Doctrinal, is a summary of the scholastic treats of the whole visible world, and ernment, grammar, arithmetic, theology, philosophy, liberal and useful arts, govetc. The third part gives the Bible account of creation, the world's secular history down to Constantine, and histories nations. He died about 1264. of the German, Frank, English, and other part ii., TIUS LERINENSIS, an eccleciastical writer of the first half of the 5th cennations. He died about 1264. of the monastery of Ledinum (an island, tury; was a native of Gaul and a monk Profane Novelties of all Heretics." In tury; was a native of Gaul and a monk that work is for the first time laid down was author of a "Warning against the formally the test of Catholicity of doctrine' is "what everywhere, what always, that work is for the first time laid down , which is that the Catholic doctrine is "what everywhere, what always, trine, which is that the Catholic doc- " (quod bus believed to be also the author of a treatise favoring the heretical opinions bus what by all had been believed" (quod of the Semipelagians, which is the subplies, on behalf of Augustine's Teaching, treatise favoring the heretical opinions believed to be also the author of a tions." the Heads of the Vincentian Objections." to the Heads of the Vincentian Objec- plies, on behalf of Augustine's Teaching, VINDHYA MOUNTAINS

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