Unidentified theological text – Fragment
Parchment · 1 strip · 1301 – 1400 CE · 39 x 170 mmF-63r4
Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/349
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The text on the fragment largely consists of quotes on the topic of avarice, excerpted from various texts, including: Seneca, Naturales quaestiones, V, 15 (fol. [1]rA: 'tanta necessitas hominem ad sidera ...'); Id., Epistola 94 (fol. [1]rB: 'Agebat infelicem Alexandrum furor aliena ...'); Id. Epistola 109 (fol. [1]vB: 'sic divitias habent, quomodo ...'); Id. Epistola 90 (fol. [1]vB: 'Avaritia paupertatem intulit ...'); Ambrosius, De officis, III, 7 (fol. [1]vA: 'Ferae non expellunt feras, et homo excludit hominem').
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Ruben Celani (Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken)
