Here begin the most devout contemplations edited by the most reverend lord, Lord Johannes de Turrecremata, Cardinal of the title of Saint Sixtus, and described and depicted most ornately with literary characters and also with the figures of images on the walls of the convent of Saint Mary sopra Minerva.

The first contemplation is about the creation of the world

Admirable and praise-
worthy is the grace of
your dispensation, most
omnipotent Lord God. Because
since in your nature you could not be seen
by man, in order to make man a
participant in your knowledge,
you made a work in which,
though you were incomprehensible,
though you were immense,
you might appear intelligible.
For your invisible things are perceived
through the creation of the world, understood
by the things that were made,
namely your power,
wisdom, and goodness. From
these three all things proceed,
in these three all things consist,
and through these three all things are ruled.
Power creates, wisdom governs,
goodness preserves. These
three, which in you, the true God, are
ineffably one, so also in their operation
cannot be separated. Power
creates wisely through goodness.
Wisdom governs benignly through
power. Goodness preserves powerfully
through wisdom. The immensity of
created things manifests power,

the beauty of things manifests wisdom,
the utility of things manifests goodness. Oh, how
sweet and pleasant it is to meditate
frequently on these creatures, the works
of your majesty, where the sense is
educated by reason, the soul is
delighted by sweetness, and the
affection is excited by emulation,
so that with the Psalmist, stunned
and admiring, we may cry out:
How magnificent are your works,
O Lord; you have made all things in wisdom.
You have delighted me in your creation,
and I will exult in the works of your hands.
This entire sensible world indeed
is as if it were a book written
by your finger, and individual creatures
are, as it were, certain figures, not
instituted by human pleasure, but by the
arbitrium will/decision of your divinity
to manifest and signal in some way
your invisible wisdom. It is good, therefore,
for you, faithful soul, to contemplate
assiduously and in an orderly way the works
of the Trinity. But if you know how to turn the beauty
of bodily things to spiritual use,
consider, therefore, how great are the
wondrous works of God, and through the
wondrous beauty of created things, seek
that beautiful One, the most beautiful of all
beautiful things, which is so wondrous and
ineffable that all transitory beauty,
even if it were true, could not be compared to it.

The second is about the creation of Adam

Ineffable and incompre-
hensible immensity of
your goodness, Lord God.