The Tree of the Philosophy of Love is a manuscript comprising three works by Ramón Llull, a philosopher and Christian apologist from Majorca: the Tree of the Philosophy of Love, the Song of Ramon, and the Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men. Copied in Catalonia in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, the manuscript boasts six full-page miniatures, one depicting the Tree of the Philosophy of Love and the others illustrating the Book of the Gentile.
A prolific and debated writer, Llull’s goal was to organize human knowledge into mathematic diagrams in order to write the work that would have converted Muslims and Jews.
Portraits of Ramón Llull and the Philosophy of Love
Written in Catalan, the manuscript was created in Palma de Mallorca in the fourteenth century, with the addition of a fragmentary text (fol. 51r) on the Council (IV.48), composed by the same author, and datable in the fifteenth century.
This manuscript is an important witness of Llull’s thought and unifies the mystical novel of the Tree of Philosophy of Love with the apologetic work in which unbelievers struggle to find the truth and finally embrace faith.
The codex is rich in diagrams that explain the contents of the text. A miniature of the Tree of the Philosophy of Love opens the manuscript and represents Ramón Llull accompanied by the personification of the philosophy of love at the feet of a tree.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Tree of the Philosophy of Love": Arbre de Filosofia de Amor de Ramon Llull facsimile edition, published by Millennium Liber, 2014
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