Manuscript Summary:The manuscript contains the four books of Augustine's On Christian Doctrine. An artistically decorated initial in red, black and green ink, followed by a line in decorative capitals, appears at the beginning of the proemium (2r), as well as of the first (5r) and fourth books (64v). The second and third book are divided by a simpler red decorative initial and a first line that has been accentuated in red ink. The appearance of the script, in a black-brown ink, is clean and balanced; the first change in hand appears in a collection of opinions of the Church fathers that has been added (probably later) on 94r-95r. On 1r a two-line dedicatory verse names Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) as having commissioned the work.(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. 106-107.
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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. 103.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 125.
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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. 254, S. 93-94.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 87
Parchment · 95 ff. · 22.6 x 15.4 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Aurelii Augustini De doctrina christiana libri quatuor
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 87, f. 2r – Aurelii Augustini De doctrina christiana libri quatuor (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0087)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 106-107.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 5/4.
Extent:
Foliorum 95.
Format: 226 : 154 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration: Codex rubricatus et aliquot amplioribus litteris initialibus est insignis.
Contents:
1°.
Fol. 2-94Aurelii Augustini: de doctrina christiana libri quatuor. Sunt praecepta quaedam tractandarum scripturarum …–…
facultate disserui.
P. L. 34, 15-122.
(fol. 1-2)
Praemittitur
Retractatio s. Augustini super libros de doctrina christiana. Libros de doctrina Sunt praecepta quaedam.
Retr. II, 4.
P. L. 32, 631-632.
2°.
Fol 94Succincta relatio de baptismo s. Augustini, in qua hymnus ,Te Deum' ss. Ambrosio et Augustino tribuitur. (U)bi tempus advenit quo in Christo renasceretur …–…
non confundar in aeternum.
3°.
Fol. 94'-95De profanarum litterum studiis sententiae ex ss. Hieronymi, Gregorii et Augustini scriptis collectae. (B)eatus Hieronimus in tractatu super epistolam ad Ephesios …–…
Ecce ubi sum, flete mecum.
Origin of the manuscript: Exaratus saeculo XII. suo beato Frowino abbate, quod patet ex versibus fol. 1:
Ad fratrum lumen pater hoc Frowine volumen
Scribi fecisti, lux luceat o tibi Christi.
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