Manuscript Summary:This copy of Cassian's Collationes contains on 1r a two-line ownership note attributing the codex to Abbot Berchtold of Engelberg (1178-1197) as well as the beginning of a dedicatory poem to the Virgin Mary, the monastery's patron saint. Both inscriptions also appear verbatim in the volumes that were written under Berchtold's predecessor Frowin (1143-1178). Decorated initials introduce each of the collationes, and sometimes the chapter-lists; between the collationes the text is divided with red decorated capitals. Tears and holes in the parchment have been artistically sewn up; of particular note are those on 48v and 190v.(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. 59
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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. 241, S. 89.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 117.
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Online Since: 10/04/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 37
Parchment · 240 ff. · 29.5 x 20.2 cm · Engelberg · 1178-1197
Johannes Cassianus, Collationes Patrum
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 37, f. 133v – Johannes Cassianus, Collationes Patrum (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0037)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 59
Manuscript title: Johannes Cassianus Collationes Patrum I.-V. XI.-XVII. VI.-X.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
Olim signatus 2/11
Extent:
Foliorum 240
Format: 295 : 202
Condition: in fine tamen mutilus, duobus foliis deperditis
Page layout:
Lineis plenis
Decoration: Codex pulchre rubricatus est et aliquot maioribus litteris initialibus artifici manu delineatis exornatus
Contents:
Johannes Cassianus: Collationes Patrum.
I.-V. XI.-XVII. VI.-X.
P. L. 49, 477-642; 847-1088; 613-835.
Singulis collationionibus praemittuntur capitula.
Codex desinit his verbis:
cum omni contritione cordis orandum est mihi. Deus in adiutorium meum intende, Domine ad adiuvandum me || Coll. X. cap. 10. P. L. 49, 835. C.
Origin of the manuscript:
Exaratus saeculo XII. sub b. Berchtoldo, abbate Engelbergensi (1178-1179), testibus versiculis fol. 1:
Ista tibi dona, genitrix et virgo patrona Bertoldum dante serves apud Omnitonantem.