De miseria humanae conditionis (De contemptu mundi)
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors
- Extent:
- ~33,700 words · 160 passages
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What it is about
On the Misery of the Human Condition, in LATIN.
Context and history
Lotario dei Segni wrote it before becoming Pope Innocent III, and it is among the most read books of the Middle Ages: hundreds of manuscripts. It inventories everything wretched about being born, living and dying. He promised a second part on human dignity and never wrote it; the fifteenth-century humanists wrote it against him.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
thario diacono cardinali sanctorum iSergii et Bacchi editus^ qui postea Imo^m centius papa tertius appellatus est^ Et dimditur in tres partiales libros. piioiiOoirs. Domino patri charissimo P. dei gratia Portaensi cpiscopo Lolharius, indignus diaconus, gratiam in praesenti et gloriam in futuro. Modicum otii, quod inter multas angustias nuper ea, quam nosti, occasione cap- & tavi, non ex toto mihi praeteriit otiosum. Sed ad deprimendam superbiam, quae caput est omnium vitiorum,» viliiatem humanae conditionis uteunque descripsi. Titulum autem praesentis opusculi vestro nomini dedi-io cavi rogans et postulans> ut si quid in eo vestra discretio dignum invenerit, divinae gra-1. dei gralia om. C. 3. et om. Cla. 4. tnter miguslias muUas M. 5. quam nostie ii, 9. antem om. M. tO. veslro nomine M. Google 12 PROLOGV0* tiae totum adscribat. Si yero paternitas ve- 8tra suggesserit^ dignitatein humanae naturae, Christo favente, describam, quatenus ita per hoc humilietur elatus, ut per illud humilis 5 exaltetur. 1. adscribatis C. 2. vilitatemf superp. digniia^ fem, M. 3. ita om. M. 4. «(] el M. humilis ex" mltetur] homo nunc exaUehir^ ad marg. : ah humHis gratuletur, M. humilis gratuletur A. Google iiiBER PRinirs. De miserabUi humanae candUionis ingressu. Quare de vulva matris egressus sum, ut yiderem laborem el dolorem, et consumerentur in confusione dies mei?^ Si talia de se locutus est ille, quem dominus sanctificavit in utero^ qualia loquar ego de me, 5 quem mater mea genuit in peccatis? Heu me, dixerim, mater mea, quid me genuisti, filium amaritudinis et doloris? Quare non in Yulva matris mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii? Cur exceptus geni- lo bus, lactatus uberibus,i> natus in combustionem et cibum ignis?^' Utinam interfectus a) Jerem. 20, 18. b) Job. 3, 11^12. c) haiae [Inscript.] De mUeria kominis MC. 4. quem deus M. 6. tfi peceaio M. 9. matrie om. M. Quare egressue C
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