called "a dogmatic synthesis similar to, but more perfect than, the Introductio ad
Theologiam" of Abelard, which treated only the knowledge of God and of the
Trinity. The following is an analysis of the contents of the De Sacramentis as
we have received it in the manuscript tradition. It will be noted that the work
is divided into two books, of twelve and eighteen parts respectively, each part
containing numerous chapters.

1. What must be learned at the outset. 2. What the subject matter of the Divine Scriptures is.
3. How Divine Scripture touches upon the works of foundation to narrate the works of re-
storation. 4. That Holy Writ treats of its subject in a threefold manner. 5. That in Holy
Writ not only words but also things have meaning. 6. How all arts are subservient to divine
wisdom. 7. On the number of books of Holy Writ.

1. That there is one first principle by which all things have been made from nothing.
2. Whether matter was made before form. 3. The reason why God wished through intervals
of time to bring His works to completion, and to make being before beautiful being.
4. Whether there could ever have been matter without form. 5. That all things, that is,
visible and invisible, were created simultaneously. 6. On the first unformed state of all things;
of what nature it was; and how long the world remained in it. 7. On the distinction made by
form. 8. On the mystery of light; why it was made and where. 10. That visible and invisible
light were made simultaneously, and equally divided from darkness. 11. That light illumines
three days; and why it was made before the sun. 12. The sacrament of the divine works.
13. Why Scripture says: "God saw the light," (Gen. 1, 4.) . 14. What precaution is here
signified regarding good work. 15. What was done with that primal light after the creation
of the sun; and whether the sun was made substantially from the same. 16. Whether God
worked for six days without interval, or in some other manner. 17. On the work of the
second day, when the firmament was made. 18. Of what matter the firmament was made;
and of what nature it was made. 19. The sacrament of the matters mentioned above.
20. Why God is not said to have seen that the work of the second day was good. 21. How
the waters were gathered together into one place that dry earth might appear. 22. How the
earth brought forth plants. 23. Why Scripture does not say that those waters which are above
heaven were gathered into one place. 24. That in these three days the disposition of things
was made. 25. How in the three following days the world was adorned. 26. Whether from
the elements themselves those things were made which were made for their adornment.
27. The sacrament why fishes and birds were made of the one matter and were not placed in
one abode. 28. Why the works of foundation are recounted first, then the works of restora-
tion. 29. That the discussion is especially concerned with the works of restoration. 30. That
there are four points with which the subsequent discussion deals.

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