De quinque floribus huius mundi1494.latManuscript 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 exemplaIn 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.