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Alanus de Insulis, also known as Alan of Lille, was a distinguished medieval scholar, theologian, philosopher and alchemist who represents one of the last of the old school of philosophy based on the patristic doctrines of the Church and a herald of the new philosophy of the following century. He pursued an extensive education at the Cathedral School of Chartes in Paris, where he learned the classics, Neo-Platonic thought, and thinkers like Augustine of Hippo and Boethius. Alanus was one of the Middle Age scholars who wanted to harmonize classical wisdom with Christian theology which influenced for example Dante, thereby leaving a lasting legacy in medieval philosophy, theology, and the development of Scholastic thought.
Next to his more famous Christian works, like the Summa de arte praedicatoria, a renowned work on charismatic preaching and rhetoric, and Regulae caelestis iuris, which explored divine law’s ethical and theological aspects; he also worked with alchemical texts and commenting on them as for example on the alchemical texts of Bernhardus Trevisanus in Bericht von der hermetischen Philosophia Dicta Alani (Report from the Hermetic Philosophia, dictated by Alani), which can be found in physical form at the Embassy of the Free mind library and here in the first link.
Von der hermetischenn philosophia das ist vom gebenedeiten stain der weisen. Dicta alani, darinn alles Hell und klar an tag geben wirdt. 1582. ➤ 1586. ➤
Auctores octo.Cato: Disticha. Theodulus: Ecloga. Facetus. Pseudo-Bernardus: De contemptu mundi. Matthaeus Vindocinensis: Tobias. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum parabolarum. Aesopus: Fabulae. Pseudo-Bernardus: Floretus. 1491 ➤ 1491-1493 ➤
Auctores octo cum glossa. Cato: Disticha. Theodulus: Ecloga. Facetus. Pseudo-Bernardus: De contemptu mundi. Matthaeus Vindocinensis: Tobias. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum parabolarum. Aesopus: Fabulae. Pseudo-Bernardus: Floretus. 1489-1490. ➤
De arte audiendi confessiones et De remediis contra recidivum peccandi. Antoninus Florentinus: Decisio consiliaris super dubio producto de indulgentiis; Alanus de Insulis: De sex alis Cherubin; Gerson: De septem miseriis hominum in hac vita. 1478 ➤
Moretum. Alanus de Insulis, Carmen probans virgines et non mulieres ad matrimonium esse ducendas. Epitaphium Alani. 1454. ➤
De maximis theologiae. 1492. ➤
Doctrinale altum seu liber parabolarum. 1494. ➤
De planctu naturae. Prelim: Epitaphium sepulcro Alani inscriptum. 1494. ➤
Auctores octo cum glossa. Con: Cato: Disticha. Theodulus: Ecloga. Facetus. Pseudo-Bernardus: De contemptu mundi. Matthaeus Vindocinensis: Tobias. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum parabolarum. Aesopus: Fabulae. Pseudo-Bernardus: Floretus. 1494-1495. ➤ 1496-1497. ➤ 1500. ➤
Doctrinale altum seu liber parabolarum Alani metrice descriptus cuÌ„ sentencijs et metrorum expositionibus utilis valde ad bonorum morum instructionem. 1492. ➤ 1499. ➤
De sex alis Cherubin. 1505 ➤
Tractatulus de sex aies cherubin. 1505 ➤
Les paraboles de maistre alain en francois. 1493. ➤
Alani Magni De Insulis … Opera moralia, paraenetica, et polemica, quae reperiri potuerunt. … Opere et studio R.D. Caroli De Visch … Subiuncto … indice duplici. 1654. ➤
Alani insignis Theologi Opus. Aduersus haereticos, & Valdenses, qui postea Albigenses dicti, in duos libros diuisum, et Guillielmo Montispessulani principi nuncupatum. 1612. ➤
