Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 88, Front cover – Aurelii Augustini de sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum libri duo
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Manuscript Summary:This volume is a copy of Augustine's commentary on the Sermon on the Mount. After the list of chapters (1r-1v) follows the Retractatio sancti Augustini de sermone domini in monte (1v-5r). Both books of the main text are introduced by a colorful decorated initial (5r, 55r). The black-brown ink script appears uniform and balanced. On the recto of the front flyleaf a two-line poem names Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) as having commissioned the volume.(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. 107.
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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. 255, S. 94.
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Online Since: 10/04/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 88
Parchment · 106 ff. · 28.8 x 15.8 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Aurelii Augustini de sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum libri duo
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 88, Front cover – Aurelii Augustini de sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum libri duo (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0088)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 107.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 5/5.
Extent:
Foliorum 106 (praeter unum insiticium)
Format: 228 : 158 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration: Litterae initiales minio ductae sunt, duabus exceptis quaae luculentius delineatae variisque coloribus ornatae exstant.
Contents:
Augustinus S. Aur.: De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum libri duo. Sermonem quem locutus est Jhesus …–…
si volumus aedificare super petram.
P. L. 34, 1229-1308.
Praemittitur
Retractatio s. Augustini de sermone domini in monte. Per idem tempus de sermone …–…
sermonem quem locutus est dominus.
Retract. I, 19,
P. L. 32, 614-617.
Origin of the manuscript: exaratus saeculo XII. suo beato Frowino abbate, quod innuunt in capite codicis versus sequentes:
Cur aut unde minus habet a mercede Frovinus?
Cum scriptor scripsi, manus autem paruit ipsi.