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Title

De planctu naturae.

Authors

• Alanus, de Insulis, -1202

Other related names

• Johannes de Polna, scribe
• Stift Admont, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 615
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924864773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/209552984
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486477

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1365

Place

Bohemia

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.
   

Extent

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

Foliation

Paper, 54; [1-54], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary limp vellum; dry and brittle.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.

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).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes de Polna (colophon f. 54v).

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Ethics, Medieval
• Vices--Poetry

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Satires (document genre)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Literature -- Prose
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
• fol. 21r — Manicule, f. 21r
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Grotesque face, f. 24r
• fol. 28r — Manicule, f. 28r
• fol. 31r — Manicule, f. 31r
• fol. 42v — Manicule, f. 42v