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De contemptu mundi.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Author: Innocent, Pope, III, ? 1160-1216

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De Miseria Condicionis Humane by Pope Innocent III, 13th-14th century

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Identifier: MS 107/ff. 1r-28v
Contents This section of the manuscript contains De Miseria Condicionis Humane (On the wretchedness of the human condition), a tract written by Pope Innocent III, sometimes called Liber de contemptu mundi. This tract is about asceticism and was originally written at the end of the 12th century, before Innocent III became pope.This section is titled Incipit tractatus...
Dates: 13th-14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts