Manuscript Summary:This codex contains Augustine's Retractationes (1r-73r), introduced by a richly decorated initial that extends for the whole length of the page. At the beginning of the Liber de poenitentia, on 73r, there is a smaller, but just as artistic initial with an eagle motif. The text of both works probably comes from the same hand, and is accompanied throughout by numerous rubricated lines and simpler dedicated initials. The only owner's inscription on 110v comes from a later time, but the overall design is characteristic of the volumes of the Engelberg library produced under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178).(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. 141.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 128.
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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. 104.
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Online Since: 10/04/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 138
Parchment · 110 ff. · 16 x 11.8 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Sancti Augustini liber retractationum et de poenitentia
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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. 141.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatum 6/19.
Extent:
Foliorum 110
Format: 160 : 118 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration: Codicem ornant tituli rubricati et eiusdem coloris litterae initiales, inter quas duae sunt maiores optime delineatae.
Contents:
1°.
Fol. 1-73.Liber (I. et II.) retractationum sancti Augustini episcopi. Jam diu est ut facere cogito atque dispono, quod nunc adiuvante domino …–…
alios a me dictatos retractare coepissem.
P. L. 32, 583-656.
2°.
Fol. 73-110'Liber sancti Augustini de poenitentia.
Hic tractatus ex scriptis praecipue s. Hipponensis episcopi et aliorum patrum necnon ex decretis summorum pontificum concinnatus incipit:
Quam sit utilis et necessaria poenitentiae medicina, facillime homines intelligunt, si
homines se esse meminerint …
Ultimum caput:
>Quomodo sit relaxandum poenitenti.<
(rubr.)
Greg. pp. in decretis suis. Nullus presbyter aut laicus poenitentem invitet vinum bibere …–…
quos vivos ad infernum descendere legitis.
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