De planctu naturae

Contributor:

Johannes de Polna (scribe); Stift Admont (former owner)

Name:

Alanus, de Insulis, -1202

Date:

1365

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

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.

Subject:

Ethics, Medieval; Vices -- Poetry; Vices

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Poems; Satires (document genre); Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; Poetry; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper; 299 x 228 (174 x 120) mm bound to 290 x 227 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 615