A short book begins, giving the method of reading abbreviations in both laws, etc.

Because it is a preposterous order to seek human aid first, so that when those fail, the grace of divine favor might be sought: as in S con. di. i. c. omnis christianus in fi. Decretum Gratiani, Distinctio 1, chapter "Omnis Christianus", at the end. And in the beginning of the Apparatus of Johannes Andreae, it is said that they produce a very poor outcome if they are begun with a bad beginning: as in l. ri. bil. ca. mi amur. i s q. i. principatus. Digest, Book 50, Title 17, Law "Cum in principio", and the chapter Cum paulus. Therefore, having first implored divine protection, since the science of both laws, as much of the canons as of the laws, is most precious, not animal but principal and most sacred, indeed divinely inspired, it is especially desirable for princes, counts, barons, soldiers, and other nobles, clerics, and generous persons having jurisdictions and the maintenance of their laws, that I establish, for those wishing to approach the knowledge of both these laws, namely canon and civil, that a path may be open that is easy, brief, and very plain in reading and studying. In texts, Apparatuses, summaries, glosses, collections, and all abbreviations of laws and canons, for the praise of almighty God

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and for the instruction of young scholars, priests, and students of law, which must be done differently than the information of those whom it might behoove to seek their nourishment more laboriously by ruling schools with scholastic doctrines. Since every process that is productive of arts and sciences ought to have order within itself, and due to the insufficiency of human life, contain brevity, I judge that such a very brief method of instruction, as follows, ought to be observed by the teachers of nobles. Saving, however, the emendation of those who might reasonably improve this method of teaching. For having completed scholastic disciplines and preliminary learning in the Donatus a standard Latin grammar textbook and casual and temporal studies. In the pabus likely referring to the Graecismus of Eberhard of Bethune or similar pedagogical texts of Alexander, in the declensions, conjugations, and the order of constructions with moral authors, Cato or Facetus didactic poems used for teaching Latin and morality, etc.

Order of instructing the young
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Not wasting half of one's life on the liberal and animal arts, as they are: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, and Astronomy. But these principal sciences having been run through concisely, that is, the path of philosophy, so that one might approach God more quickly, and finally linger upon canon law and practical theology. Not as the blessed Jerome complains, that they walk in the vagueness of sense and obscurity of mind, who day and night