Date: w. c. 1210
"As a prudent workman, construct the whole fabric within the mind's citadel; let it exist in the mind before it is on the lips."
preview | full record— Vinsauf, Geoffrey of [called Galfridus Anglicus] (fl. 1208-1213)
Date: 1384
"O Thought, that wroot al that I mette, / And in the tresorie hit shette / Of my brayn!"
preview | full record— Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400)
Date: 1389
"The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles."
preview | full record— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)