De quinque floribus huius mundi

Description

Title: De quinque floribus huius mundi
Published / Created: 1494.
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Libellus de quinque floribus huius mundi contemnendis, a short moralistic treatise dealing with the five flowers of the world which need to be despised: (1) bona dispositio corporis, scilicet sanitas, fortitudo et pulcritudo; (2) nobilitas generis; (3) habundantia rerum temporalium; (4) sapiencia cum discreta eloquentia; (5) potestas sive dignitas temporalis. The treatise is illustrated with quotations from the Bible, Church Fathers and other authors, and exempla
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens. A later hand has transcribed in the margins in Humanistica Cursiva the words or passages which were found difficult to read.
Headings, paragraph marks, underlining, heightening of majuscules and plain initials (3 lines) in red.
Worm holes throughout the manuscript; the edges of the last folio are torn.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with greyish marbled paper.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i +10 + i : 210 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Conduct of life
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: De Quinque Floribus Huius Mundi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.