Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 18, Digital Colorchecker – Confessionum Aurelii Augustini libri tredecim
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Manuscript Summary:This codex contains the St. Augustine's Confessions. A two-line poem above the Capitulum on 1r attests that the copying was begun under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178). It is adorned with two figurated initials (1v and 60v) and decorative initials in red ink. Seven rhymed distichs in the hand of the so-called Engelberg Master appear on 123v and these refer to the defense by Frowin's successor Berchtold (1178-1197) against the falsa et damnanda compilatio abbatis Burchardi in turtal.(grd)
Standard description: P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35-36.
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Additional description: Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. II: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern-Porrentruy, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Dietikon-Zürich 1983, Nr. 232, S. 86.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 113.
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Additional description: Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 100.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 18
Parchment · 123 ff. · 31.2 x 22 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1197
Confessionum Aurelii Augustini libri tredecim
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P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35-36.
Manuscript title: Confessionum Aurelii Augustini libri tredecim.
Date of origin: Exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
Olim signatus 1/16.
Extent:
Foliorum 123
Format: 312 : 220 mm.
Page layout:
Lineis plenis.
Decoration: Rubricatus et litteris initialibus ornatus, inter quas duae ocurrunt, quibus manus non multo recentior figuras adjecit.
Contents:
1°.
ConfessionumAurelii Augustini
libri tredecim. Fol. 1-122.
P. L. 32, 659-868, praemisso capite sexto libri secundi retractationum.
Confessionum mearum libri …–…
Magnus es domine.
P. L. 32, 632.
2°.
Versus quatuordecim praeliminarii in apologiam beati Berchtoldi, abbatis Engelbergensis (1178-1197) contra Falsam et damnandam compilationem abbatis Burchardi in Turtal, de quibusdam justis ante passionem Christi defunctis.
Fol. 123'.
Omnis homo hic sanctae quamvis studuit fore vitae …
Filiation: Ed. Neugart, Episcopatus Constantiensis, Friburgi 1862. I. tom. II. 167. Apologiam ìpsam tres circiter quaterniones complectentem manus furaces saeculo XVI. exeunte e codice excisam abstulerunt.
Origin of the manuscript:
Exaratus saeculo XII. sub b. Frowino abbate, quod probant versus sequentes in fronte codicis:
Hic Augustini liber est opus ac Froeuuini, Alter dictavit, alter scribendo notavit.
Bibliography:
Cfr. Cod. 358
De b. Berchtoldo abb. cfr. Engelberg, pag. 41 sqq. Wetzer und Welte's Kirchenlexikon. 2. Aufl. II, 389 sq. (Freiburg 1883.)