adaption of the
Imago Mundi from the
Red Book of Hergest (
Jesus College, Oxford MS 111).
Y llyfyr hwn a elwir Imago Mwndi. Sef yw hynny delw y byd.English translation: This book is called Imago Mundi. The whole world is contained within. Among Honorius's works are: •
Elucidarium: a survey of Christian beliefs (written in England). It was translated frequently into vernacular. •
Sigillum sanctae Mariae: a set of lessons for how to celebrate the
Assumption, together with a commentary on
The Song of Songs, which he sees as being principally about
Mary. •
Gemma animae: An allegorical view of the liturgy and its practices. • A commentary on
The Song of Songs, (preserved in a manuscript from c. 1170). • A long commentary on the
Psalms. •
Speculum Ecclesiae, a collection of sermons. •
Clavis physicae, the first part (1–315) is a summary of the first four books of
Johannes Scotus Erigena Periphyseon (
De divisione naturae), the second part (316–529) is a reproduction of the fifth book. •
De luminaribus ecclesiae: a bibliography of Christian authors, which ends with a list of twenty-one of his own works. His most important work was the
Imago mundi, an encyclopedia of popular
cosmology and geography combined with a chronicle of world history. It was translated into many different
vernacular languages and was popular throughout the medieval period. It contained, among other things, a scheme for the operation of
guardian angels. A major scholar of Honorius is
Valerie Flint, whose essays on him are collected in
Ideas in the Medieval West: Texts and their Contexts (London, 1988). See also her study of Honorius in Constant J. Mews and Valerie I. J. Flint,
Peter Abelard; Honorius of Regensburg (Aldershot, 1995). == Notes ==