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De planctu naturae.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 615
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Alanus, de Insulis, -1202.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Medieval.
- Vices--Poetry.
- Vices.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- poems
- satires (literary genre)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly held in the library of Stift Admont, the Benedictine monastery in the town of Admont, Styria, Austria (number 478, spine and inside upper cover) (Wichner).
- Sold by Stift Admont to antiquarian bookdealer Brecher (Brno, modern Czech Republic) in 1938 (inscription in Wichner 1888 catalog); Z. Stelle f. Denkmalschutz stamp, indicating export license granted by the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt, inside lower cover (Christoph Egger, Institut fuer Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung).
- Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1951.
- Physical Description:
- 54 leaves : paper ; 299 x 228 (174 x 120) mm bound to 290 x 227 mm
- Production:
- [Bohemia], [1365]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- The plaint of nature, an ethical treatise on human failings in prose and verse, modeled on the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius. Many contemporary marginal and interlinear notes throughout.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and attribution from front cover: Alanus deplanctu naturae.
- Foliation: Paper, 54; [1-54], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes de Polna (colophon f. 54v).
- Decoration: Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple 2-line red initials, one with a grotesque face (f. 24r); several manicules (f. 15r, 21r, 28r, 31r, 42v).
- Binding: Contemporary limp vellum; dry and brittle.
- Origin: Completed in Bohemia on 22 April 1365 (nearest weekday after Quasimodogeniti, the Octave of Easter, f. 54v).
- Cited in:
- Described in Wichner, Jakob. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Admontensis (handwritten catalog, Admont, 1888), p. 203-204 (no. 478).
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p.6-7 (Ms. Latin 26).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 615
- OCLC:
- 209553074
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