On Phoenician Letters

the planter. These are the ancient accounts of Gaul, which you, most illustrious Cardinal and prince, divinely impelled and moved toward this matter, are innovating, while you ensure, under the Most Christian King and heir of the Gomeric jurisdiction, that the Phoenician language is taught and slowly shows itself and its own offshoots and branches, which are placed in the Syriac and Arabic languages. Just as your ancestors were once the first and primary princes in the expedition to the Holy Land who put into action the decrees of the Concilium Claromontanum Council of Clermont to bring about the bishops, so may you yourself be the first to fulfill in Gaul the observance of the Concilium Viennense Council of Vienne and the Clementinae a collection of canon law concerning the Masters, being far greater and more fortunate than your ancestors, even if they were most illustrious, to the extent that the mind and reason seem to surpass the body itself and military power. For with salaries established according to the judgment of the council for those who teach Arabic letters, as being the closest to Hebrew and Phoenician, it will happen that the two highest summaries of the entire world will reach the Respublica Christiana