Table of the Mirror of History

divided into several tables for individual books, begins: These tables are properly called [tables] of the books and are distinct. The chapters will also be very easily presented to the inquirer by the number of the leaves, with a dot placed before or after, according as the chapters are located on the front or back part of the leaf.

Table of the First Book.

The first book contains the

preface and a certain brief epilogue of the first part. Thereafter, a history of two thousand, three hundred, and seventy-four years: namely, from the generation of the first man through the successions of the twelve patriarchs until the death of Joseph, prince of Egypt; and from there through the sixty-four years of the servitude of the Hebrews until the birth of Moses the lawgiver. Among these, it also contains the divisions of lands and nations by languages, and the customs of various barbarians; the rise of idols and the origin and lines of succession of certain kingdoms, and the testaments of the patriarchs. It has, moreover, 176 chapters.


Preface and epilogue on the unity of the divine substance	c. .i
On the Trinity of persons	c. .i
On the co-eternities and properties of the persons	c. .i
On the power and wisdom of God	c. .i
On the will of God and His mercy and justice	c. .i
That God is not the author of evils: but the ordainer and creator and governor of all things.	c. .i
In what manner God is in things	c. .i
Epilogue on the creation of the world	c. .2
Epilogue on the creation of the angels	c. .2
On the fall of the evil [angels] and the confirmation of the good	c. .2
On the distinction of the nine orders	c. .2
On the triple celestial hierarchy in which the super-celestial image shines forth	c. .2
On the mystery of the angels	c. .2
On their merit and reward and knowledge	c. .2
On their spiritual utterances	c. .2
On the unformed matter of this sensible world	c. .2
Epilogue on the works of the six days	c. .3
On the work of the first day	c. .3
On the work of the second day
On the first work of the third day, i.e., on the gathering of the waters	c. .3
On the second work of the same day, i.e., on the seeds of the earth	c. .3
On trees	c. .3
On fruits and gums and juices	c. .3
On the work of the fourth day	c. .3
On the work of the fifth day, and first on birds	c. .4
On fishes	c. .4
On the first work of the sixth day, i.e., on the animals of the earth	c. .4
On reptiles	c. .4
On the creation of man and the rest of the Sabbath	c. .4
Epilogue on the formation of the human body	c. .4
On the divisions of the members	c. .4
Epilogue on the human soul	c. .5
On the immortality of the soul and the image of the Trinity in it	c. .5
On the locality and quantity of the soul	c. .5
On the union of the same to the body	c. .5
Epilogue on the powers of the soul	c. .5
On reason and sensuality	c. .5
On free will	c. .5
On synderesis	c. .5
On the dignity of man and the creation of woman	c. .6
On the first state of both parents and the fall into sin	c. .6
On the manifold division of sin	c. .6
On sin of heart, mouth, and deed	c. .6
On the species of impiety which is committed against God	c. .6
On the species of flagitiousness against oneself	c. .6
On the species of crime against one's neighbor: and on the sin against the Holy Spirit	c. .6
On the consequence of sin and the restoration of the fallen through penance and the virtues	c. .6
On faith and hope	c. .6
On charity	c. .7
On the four cardinal virtues	c. .7
On the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: and the seven beatitudes	c. .7
On the division of the sciences: which were given to fallen man as a remedy.	c. .7


On the practical and mechanical arts	c. .7
On the sermocinal sciences: and the magical arts.	c. .8
On the exile of the first parents: and their offspring	c. .8
On the rise of the Church in Abel	c. .8
On the seven generations until Noah	c. .8
On Noah and the building of the Ark of the flood	c. .8
On the flood and the Ark of the covenant.	c. .8
On the generations from Shem until Heber	c. .8
On Peleg and the division of languages and nations in the three parts of the world	c. .8
On Asia and its head: which is Paradise	c. .8
On India and its wonders	c. .8
On the other regions of Asia	c. .8
On the provinces of Asia Minor	c. .9
On Europe and its regions	c. .9
On Greece and its provinces	c. .9
On the other provinces of Europe	c. .9
On Africa and its regions	c. .10
On the islands of the Ocean by which the world is girded	c. .10
On the islands of the Great Sea, i.e., the Mediterranean	c. .10
On mountains	c. .10
On the strange customs of certain nations	c. .11
On certain monstrous nations	c. .11
On fabulous portents	c. .12
On transmutations	c. .12
On the rise of the kingdom and the kingdom of the Scythians	c. .12
On the rise of Serug and the kingdom of the Egyptians	c. .12
On the rise of Nahor and the kingdom of the Assyrians	c. .12
On the rise of the kingdom of the Sicyonians	c. .12
On the rise of Terah and the end of the Second Age	c. .12
On the rise of Abraham: also of Ninus and Zoroaster	c. .12
On the rise of idolatry under Ninus	c. .12
On Ninyas the son of Ninus and his mother Semiramis	c. .13
On the pilgrimage of Abraham and his battle and Melchizedek	c. .13
On the sign of the promise fulfilled and when circumcision was instituted	c. .13
On the re-promise and on the guilt and punishment of the Sodomites	c. .13
On the birth of Isaac and the testing of his father in him	c. .13
On the double cave and Keturah and Rebecca and her delivery	c. .13
On the rise of the kingdom of the Argives and the primogeniture of Jacob	c. .13
On the journey of Joseph and his sons: also of Phoroneus and Phegeus and Apis and Minerva	c. .13
Apology against Faustus, the rebuker of the patriarchs	c. .13
Apology of Abraham concerning the handmaid	c. .13
Apology of the same concerning the free woman and Isaac the son	c. .14
Apology of Jacob concerning the four wives	c. .14
On the artifice of nature: which Jacob devised concerning the flocks	c. .14
On his return to his fatherland: and the field of Shechem: also of Prometheus and Triptolemus and Ceres	c. .14
On the selling of Joseph and his liberation and concerning prison	c. .14
On his elevation and the arrogance of Asenath	c. .14
In what manner Joseph reproved her for idolatry	c. .14
On the penance of Asenath and angelic consolation	c. .14
On the table and shrine which she set before the angel	c. .14
On the blessing of the seven virgins and the marriage of Asenath	c. .15
On the descent of Israel into Egypt: and the seduction of Dan and Gad	c. .15
On the death of Pharaoh and Jacob and Joseph	c. .15
On the testament of Reuben and Simeon	c. .15
On the testament of Levi	c. .15
On the testament of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun	c. .15
On the testament of Dan and Naphtali and Gad	c. .15
On the testament of Asher, Joseph, and Benjamin	c. .15
On the affliction of the Hebrews after the death of Joseph	c. .15
On Apis and Serapis which the Egyptians worshipped.	c. .15

Table of the Second Book.

The second book contains the

history of 932 years: namely, from the birth of Moses, who liberated the people of God from the servitude of Egypt; through the times also of the leadership of the same people and the successions of 14 judges, and the kings of all Israel, and 15 kings of Judah, until the reign of Cyrus the first king of the Persians, who himself led the people out from the Babylonian captivity and released them. Into this history he inserts the cult of the Tabernacle under Moses; also of the Temple under Solomon; and the prophecies of the Sibyl; and many other things. It has, moreover, 171 chapters.