![]() Three hundred signifies faith in the Trinity, or because of the letter Three hundred, and there are six periods in the three ages of the world. Six is the number of times that fifty goes into Six times his width across from right to left or left to right, and ten times Recumbent man when he is lying down quite flat, his length from head to foot is Ten times its thickness through from back to front. Is six times its width from one side to the other, and its height moreover is For the length of a body from crown to heel Provides us with an allegorical figure for the human body in which ChristĪppeared, for it is itself His body. That the length of the ark is six times its width and ten times its height This was not all Hugh has to say on the dimensions of the ark. Immolation of the spotless Lamb in the period of grace. The hundred years that the ark took to build means the same as a hundred cubits.įor the hundred years signify the period of grace: since the Holy Church, whichīegan with the beginning of the world, received redemption through the Respects in nature, but in the uniqueness of His virtue He is above them all. Head of his Church, who is the Saint of saints, is like to other men in all The ark narrows to the measure of a single cubit at the top, because Christ, the More people leading a carnal life than there are persons of a spiritual life, itīeing always the rule that the more perfect are proportionately few in number. ![]() Narrower towards the top and wider below means that in the Holy Church there are Lawfully, the second are fleeing from it and forgetting it, and the thirdĪlready have forgotten it, and they are near to God. The three storeys signify the three ranks of believers that thereĪre in the Church, whereof the first have commerce with the world, albeit ![]() The sum of all the things that God has either done, or else is going to do, for Twenty-two of the Old Testament and the eight of the New, wherein is contained Thirty cubits denotes the thirty volumes of the Holy Writ, namely, the That is why the ark is gathered to one cubit at the top. One, which means Christ, who is the Head of His Church and the goal of ourĭesires. For fifty is seven times seven that is,įorty-nine, the number that means the total sum of all believers - plus The fifty cubits breadth denotes all believers everywhere, who are established Three periods, namely, the period of natural law, the period of the written law,Īnd the period of grace through which the Holy Church is from the world’sīeginning to its end advancing from this present life towards the future glory. The length of three hundred cubits denotes this present age, which extends over Given in the Bible, in a rather obscure way: ![]() 1078–1141) explains the dimensions of Noah’s Ark, as In chapter 14 of the first part of his De arca noe morali, Hugh of After a short introduction into the issues involved, this paper will concentrate on the use of perfect numbers as a design principle in several select examples. ![]() And indeed, many medieval descriptions of buildings display a great concern with numerical values. In such a number-obsessed world, one would expect number to play a significant role in the design of medieval architecture, for without number, a building, like everything else, would perish. Indeed, the medieval world seems to have taken to heart the words expressed in the Book of Wisdom (11.21): ‘Omnia in mensura et numero et pondere fecisti’. Thus wrote Isidore of Sevilla in the 7th century (Book III, 4). Take away computation from the world, and all things are encompassed by blind ignorance people who are ignorant of the knowledge of reckoning cannot be distinguished from the other animals’. Take away number in all things, and they all perish. ‘Knowledge of numbers should not be despised We are instructed in number to avoid confusion. ![]()
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