Manuscript Summary:Codex 67 contains De mirabilibus mundi, a collection of curiosities by the grammarian Julius Solinus from late antiquity; the texts are also known by the titles Polyhistor and Collectanea rerum memorabilium. The text is written in a uniform script and is decorated with titles and initials, some of which are adorned with filigree (e.g., 2r and 6r), in red ink. Holes and tears in the parchment have been artfully stitched up with colorful threads (e.g., 23-25, 34, 62). According to the dedicatory poem on 1v, this copy was produced under Abbot Heinrich von Buochs (1197-1223).(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. 98.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 123.
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Online Since: 12/13/2013
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 67
Parchment · 106 ff. · 24.5 x 14.5 cm · Engelberg · 1197-1223
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 98.
Manuscript title: Commenta Julii Solini sive Grammatici. Polystor ab ipso editus et recognitus de situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae in mundo habentur.
Date of origin: exaratus inter annos 1197 et 1223.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 4/15
Extent:
Foliorum 106
Format: 245 : 145 mmm
Condition: Duo folia improba manus cultello excisa abstulit, alterum inter folia 32 et 33, alterum inter 85 et 86. Folium 78 salvâ scripturâ mutilum est.
Decoration: Codex optime rubricatus est rubrisque litteris initialibus decoratus.
Additions: In margine laterali folii 106' legitur hymnus neumatus de s. Katharina: Voce cordis et oris … Mone, Hymn. 3. 349 num. 984.
Contents:
Commenta Julii Solini sive Grammatici. Polystor ab ipso editus et recognitus de situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae in mundo habetur.
Filiation: Cfr. Julii Solini Collectanea rerum memorabilium, recognovit Th. Mommsen, Berolini 1864, Fol. I.II sqq.
Origin of the manuscript: exaratus inter annos 1197 et 1223 sub Henrico abbate Engelbergensi, testibus his versiculs fol. 1':
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