[107] The legend reads as follows: ‘Minor mundus scilicet homo. Microcosmus. [Then on the head the names of the seven planets.] Caput microcosmi est rotundum in celestis spere modum in quo duo oculi ut duo luminaria in celo micant quod & septem foramina ut septem celi armonie ornant. In pectore sunt flatus & tussis ut in aere uenti & tonitrua. In uentrem omnia fluunt ut in mare flumina. Os lapides ungues arbos dant gramina crines Ut pede mole[m] corporis sic terra sustinet omnia. [At the four corners the following legends:] Aer huic donat quod flat. sonat. audit. odorat. Ignis feruorem dat uisum mobilitatem. Aqua. Munus aque gustus humorem sanguinis usus. Ex terra carnem tactum trahit & gravitatem.’
[108] Migne, col. 415.
[109] Migne, col. 421.
[110] Migne, col. 424.
[111] The Aristotelian writings also compare the transformation of the material humours into the child’s body with the solidification of milk in the formation of cheese.
[112] Migne, col. 425.
[113] Especially in the Liber Divinorum Operum, pars 1. vis. iv.
[114] The eagle is frequently in mediaeval writings a symbol of the power of divine grace.
[115] Migne, col. 110.
[116] Migne, col. 111.