Bonaventura, Sanctus (1221-1274)
This manuscript was written in 1445 by the prolific scribe and later prior of the Dominican Monastery of Basel, Albert Löffler, shortly before entering the order. Its content illustrates Löffler's academic and religious education: it contains Latin texts of spiritual character, such as the Speculum artis bene moriendi now attributed to Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl, the Pilgerbuch der Seele zu Gott by Bonaventure, and the Speculum ecclesiae by Hugh of Saint-Cher, as well as the hugely popular Liber de ludo scacchorum by Jacobus de Cessolis, one of the first Latin treatises on chess. The manuscript also contains two German texts: a treatise on perfection and a catalog of questions to examine whether, after death, a sick person's soul may expect eternal life.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Itinerarium mentis in deum (102v-114v)
Incipit: In principio primum principium a quo cuncte illuminaciones descendunt [103r] >Expliciunt capitula. Incipit speculacio pauperis in deserto. Primum capitulum de gradibus ascensionis in deum et de speculacione ipsius per vestigia eiusdem in universo. [103v] Beatus vir cuius est auxilium abs te
Explicit: Deus cor meum et pars mea deus in eternum benedictus dominus in eternum et dicet omnis populus fiat fiat [sic]. Amen. Explicit itinerarius mentis in deum fratris Boneventure. 1445.
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- Aegidius, Romanus (Author) | Albertus, Loeffler, OP (Scribe) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Heinrich, von Bitterfeld (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Caro (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have been intensely used, as suggested by soiling and signs of heavy usage. The original red leather binding is covered with another layer of leather that sticks out beyond the covers at the bottom and can be folded over the lower edge as protection. The manuscript contains prayers, hymns and other devotional texts by numerous different authors — primarily saints and popes — such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Bernard of Clairvaux. Also represented are Carthusian authors such as Heinrich Arnoldi. Several colored woodcut and metalcut prints have been glued onto leaf 4v and 316v.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Laudismus sanctae crucis (155r-157r)
Incipit: Recordare sancte crucis qui perfectam vitam ducis
Explicit: propter aspera tormenta et illata vulnera.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Bonifatius IX., Papst (Author) | Coelestinus V., Papa (Author) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Thomas, Becket (Author) Found in: Standard description
This late medieval book of devotion and prayer is named for its first owner, Margret Zschampi, Dominican at Klingental Convent in Basel. It is a typical manuscript for edification, in German, as they were customarily used and written at the end of the Middle Ages for private devotion, especially in women's convents and in lay communities. Margret Zschampi donated the manuscript to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, where it became part of the library for lay brothers. As part of this Carthusian library, the devotional book reached the university library of Basel in 1590. This is the only completely preserved known manuscript from the Dominican Convent of Klingental.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Stimulus amoris (140r-145r)
Incipit: Dis sindt zehen stúckly durch die ein mönsch mag zuͦ nemmen gegen gott in tugenden und verdienen und setzet sú der lerer Bonaventura. Des ersten sol der zuͦ nemmend mönsch leren als vast er mag, sich selber schnöd schetzen
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Freidank (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) | Zschampi, Margret (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This small-format paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is mostly by the hand of the librarian Georg Carpentarius, who for the sake of daily spiritual exercises compiled prayers for various occasions, hymns, meditations and other theological texts. Among the identifiable authors are great ones such as Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as lesser known names such as Basilius Phrisius. Two colored prints are glued in the covers: St. George with the dragon (front pastedown) and the Mass of St. Gregory (back pastedown).
Online Since: 12/14/2018
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- Adamus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Alantsee, Ambrosius (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Dorlandus, Petrus (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Author) | Gennadius, Scholarius (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hermannus, Augiensis (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Phrisius, Basilius (Author) | Robert I., France, Roi (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, written mostly in German, consists of various parts, all of which probably date from the same time, the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century. This codex belonged to the library of the lay brothers of the Carthusian monastery in Basel and may have been written, at least in part, in this same monastery. Among the texts in this devotional book are the exemplum of the pious [female] miller, the “Guten-Morgen-Exempel” often attributed to Meister Eckhart, a recounting of the history of the Carthusian order, as well as various sermons, prayers, sayings and exempla.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Stimulus amoris (96r-100r)
Incipit: Diß sint zehen stücklin, durch die ein mönsch mag zůnemmen gegen got in tugenden und verdienen. Und setzet sú der lerer Bonaventura also genant. etc. Item des ersten, so sol der zůnemmende mönsch leren, als vast er mag, sich selber schnöde schetzen
Explicit: ouch der můter Cristi, unsers herren, alle ere und liebe und mitlidichkeit erbiete.
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Conradus, Marburgensis (Author) | Engelhart, von Ebrach (Author) | Freidank (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Platon (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, written by various 15th century hands, is decorated simply. The manuscript contains a miniature; on a torn out page, only remnants of a second miniature can be discerned. In two places, musical notes are added to the text. The texts collected in this volume consist almost exclusively of prayers, most of which are quite short, sometimes taking up no more than half a page of the already small-format manuscript. Some prayers are in prose, others are in verses.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Oratio (17v)
Incipit: Deus meus, bone Iesu, concede mihi
Explicit: innocens mater tua et penitens Magdalena in ipsa passionis tue hora senserunt amen. [Notiz:] Item anno domini 1418 in octava visitacionis beate virginis indui habitum Carthusiensium et eodem tempore fui xxiii [=22 ½] annos.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Psalterium minus beatae Mariae (146v-153r)
Incipit: Ave, virgo, vite lignum, que perhenni laude dignum
Explicit: digna sono cymbalorum.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Lovanio (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Isaak, von Stella (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Philippus, Cancellarius (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format parchment volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is composed of three originally separate fascicles. The first is decorated with three initials (1r, 53r, 58r) and contains the Stimulus dilectionis by Eckbert of Schönau along with prayers, Penitential Psalms and a Litany of the Saints. This is followed by the fragment of a prayer book, which is missing the beginning as well as the end. The third part contains a compilation from Bonaventure's Soliloquium and Hugh of St. Victor's De vanitate mundi. The heavy soiling of pp. 24-53 (Agenda defunctorum and Penitential Psalms) should be noted; it indicates intensive use of this part of the codex.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Prologus (91r-92v)
Incipit: Flecto genua dei [Eph. 3, 14-19]. Apostolus Paulus vas electionis eterne sacrarium
Explicit: desiderii finis et complementum.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Capitulum primum (92v-117v)
Incipit: Dic queso o homo si post devotam invocacionem
Explicit: nichil in mundo est quod pertimescat.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Capitulum secundum (117v-118v)
Incipit: Converte o anima mea radium contemplacionis ad ea
Explicit: 118r in omnibus invidie semina prebuisti. Hec Bernardus. Nichil itaque bonum est nisi quod perpetuum est. 118v Iero.
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Fiscannensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Urban V., Papst (Author) | Vullenhoe, Heinrich von (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript originally consisted of at least two books, as can still be seen from the separate original foliation. The first part was written in the 13th century by several very similar hands; it contains numerous sermons, among others some by Gilbertus Tornacensis and Bonaventure. The second part, written by a main hand from the 14th century, contains a vast collection of exempla of various origins. This plain manuscript belonged to the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, as confirmed by numerous notes of ownership, two old title labels and various old shelfmarks.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Quare fratres minores praedicent et confessiones audiant (96r-99v)
Incipit: Quia plerique dubitant et querunt
Explicit: excommunicatione ligatus || quia non
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- Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gilbertus, Tornacensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Saresberiensis (Author) | Moser, Urban (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format manuscript in Latin is from the Carthusian monastery of Basel; in particular, it treats the Passion of Christ. The devotional image on the front pastedown takes up this topic, as do the texts, which are by, among others, Ludolph of Saxony, Bonaventure and Eckbert of Schönau. The manuscript's first text, a long devotional text De vita et passione Iesu Christi, may have been written by Heinrich Arnoldi, Carthusian of Basel.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Officium de passione domini (212r-224v)
Incipit: Tuam crucem adoramus domine, tuam gloriosam recolimus passionem. Miserere nobis qui passus es in cruce pro nobis. >Ista antiphona debet dici ad omnes horas ante incepcionem<. Domine labia mea
Explicit: per infinita regnemus seculorum secula. Amen.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript of catechetical-ascetic content, in quarto format on paper. Three fascicles of various strengths. The oldest is from the second half of the 14th century; it is written by Albert von Münnerstadt, Conventual from the Commandry of the Teutonic Knights of Hitzkirch, and contains Moralitates super evangelium sancti Lucae. In the second half of the 15th century, probably in Beromünster, this was bound together with two natural science Compendia moralia (excerpts from Thomas of Cantimpré's encyclopedia) and with catechetical treatises by Heinrich von Langenstein, Johannes Gerson and Bonaventure. Scholarly manuscript for regular use in the area of pastoral care (hasty hand with numerous abbreviations, especially in the third fascicle).
Online Since: 09/23/2014
- Johannes, Gerson: ‚Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione, et de arte moriendi‘ – Bonaventura, ‚De praeparatione ad missam‘ (118-152) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Solinus, Gaius Julius (Author) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) | Zeller, Ludwig (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A collection of homiletic and pastoral texts dated with the years [14]52, [14]54 and [14]55, which came to Einsiedeln from the Lake Constance area. The main work are those by Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl: Sermones de sanctis, De tribus partibus poenitentiae, De indulgentiis, De oratione Dominica; a collection of writings in Latin by Marquard von Lindau OFM; and texts by Jordanus von Quedlinburg OESA: Sermones de communi sanctorum, Sermones ad religiosos et religiosas.
Online Since: 12/21/2010
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: De praeparatione ad Missam (76vb-79rb:)
Incipit: Ad honorem gloriose et indiuidue trinitatis et ad honorem excellentissimi sacramenti scilicet gloriosi corporis et sanguinis ihesu christi
Explicit: Explicit tractatus bone uenture de corpore christi et preparatione ad deuotam suptionem eiusdem ritamque celebratam misterij misse Anno Lij 1452
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guigo, Cartusianus (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Bonaventura, Tractatus de corpore christi (Leder) Found in: Additional description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Tractatus de corpore christi (f. 76vb-79rb) Found in: Additional description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guigo, Cartusianus (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Tractatus Boneventure de corpore Christi (F. 76v-79)
Incipit: Ad honorem gloriose et individue trinitatis prestare dignetur regnat tecum
Explicit: Explicit tractatus boneventure de corpore Christi et preparatione ad deuotam susceptionem eiusdem ritamque celebrationem misterii misse. Anno LVo.
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guigo, Cartusianus (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) Found in: Additional description
Mystic Treatises in German: Rudolf von Biberach, Meister Eckhart, Johannes von Sterngassen, Albert the Great, etc. The manuscript was a gift, together with Cod. 277(1014), from Heinrich Rumersheim of Basel to the four sister convents in der Au near Einsiedeln at the behest of Margarete zum Goldenen Ring.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: de VII itineribus æternitatis germanice. (P. 3-147)
Incipit: Dis sint die siben strasse die in got wisent.
Explicit: in der erigkeit. Unzunt har ret der lerer. Hie het dis buochelin ein ende. Gedenkent mit trüwen min dur got und sehent an min flis. Dis sint die strasse die dü solt gan ane masse. Die welt fürwasse, tu dich got gentzlich lasse. dü ding verderbent und al lüt lipliche sterbent. Der dis hat gedichtet, des gedenkentgenedekliche. Dur Got. Amen.
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Johannes, de Sterngassen (Author) Found in: Standard description
Excerpts from Bonaventure's commentary on Peter Lombardus' Sentences, written by the Franciscan Heinrich von Isny (Bishop of Basel, 1275-1286). Ownership note on f.1r (Johannes Joly). Colophons f. 336vb (frater Henricus), f. 337ra (Antonius de Maasmünster, scribe, 1478), f. 352ra (Johannes Joly, scribe, 1478). Former chained book with pressed leather cover of the 15th century.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, Goeckelmann (Author) | Raedlé, Nicolas (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Henricus, Goeckelmann: Veritates questionum ex opere Boneventure super librum sentenciarum Veritates theologiae Bonaventurae. Found in: Additional description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, Goeckelmann (Author) | Raedlé, Nicolas (Annotator) Found in: Additional description
This composite manuscript, much used by Friedrich von Amber, contains material about the history of the religious order in the first part (f. 1r-100v). In the second, probably more important part (f. 109r-165v), it contains treatises, questions and polemics from the time of the conflict of Pope John XXII with Louis IV (called the Bavarian) who resided in Munich and with the Franciscan Spirituals who had fled to that city. Several of these writings are preserved only in this manuscript, among them a treatise on the Visio beatifica of 1332-1333 (f. 127v-153r) which, according to Annelise Maier can possibly be attributed to William of Ockham, as well as a polemic (f. 153r-160r) in which Louis IV is warned against too hastily making peace with the Pope in Avignon.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: De perfectione vitae ad Sorores. (f. 172v-191r)
Incipit: Beatus homo, quem tu erudieris, domine, et de lege tua docueris eum (Ps. 93, 12). Neminem censeri sapientem fateor
Explicit: qui cum patre et spiritu sancto unus est deus benedictus in secula seculorum.
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- Alvarus, Pelagius (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Scribe) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Gerardus, Odonis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Lullus, Raimundus (Author) | Michael, de Cesena (Author) | Ockham, Guilelmus de (Author) | Valerius, Bergidensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alvarus, Pelagius (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Scribe) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Gerardus, Odonis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Lullus, Raimundus (Author) | Michael, de Cesena (Author) | Ockham, Guilelmus de (Author) | Valerius, Bergidensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Alvarus, Pelagius (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Scribe) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Gerardus, Odonis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Lullus, Raimundus (Author) | Michael, de Cesena (Author) | Ockham, Guilelmus de (Author) | Valerius, Bergidensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This miscellany manuscript contains texts from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century in 12 parts, and belonged to Jean Joly (Guardian of the Fribourg Franciscan Convent, 1467-1469, 1472-1478, 1481-1510). The first part of the manuscript consists in a bull of Pope Benedict XII, dated to 1337. The volume essentially contains papal bulls and constitutions as well as statutes of Franciscan Order and determinations of particular provinces of the Franciscan order. A formerly chained volume, it has wooden boards covered with dark brown leather.
Online Since: 12/20/2023
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Declarationes papales; Bonaventura; Constitutiones generales et provinciales OFM; Acta et definitiones Found in: Standard description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Explanationes constitutionum generalium Narbonensium. (95r-98v)
Incipit: Expositiones constitucionum generalium apud Parisius a fratre Bonaventura. Titulo de ingressu religionis ibi dicitur quod nullus recipiatur nisi expropriatus omnino. Queritur utrum hoc debeat intelligi de recepcione ad ordinem
Explicit: Item queritur si littera fratris Iohannis quondam generalis ministri adhuc obliget. Respondeo quod non, quia revocata fuit in capitulo generali.
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- Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Joly, Jean (Former possessor) | Klemens V., Papst (Author) | Martinus V, Papa (Author) | Nikolaus III., Papst (Author) | Stos, Rolet (Bookbinder) Found in: Standard description
This prayer book presumably is from the Bickenkloster St. Klara in Villingen. In addition to prayers, it contains various reflections and sermons, among them two new year's addresses by Ursula Haider for the years 1496 and 1500.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Haider, Ursula (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume contains St. Bonaventure's Legenda maior of St. Francis, the Vita beati Antonii and two documents regarding the Portiuncula indulgence. The manuscript was written by Elisabeth von Amberg (ff. 1-127) and Katherina von Purchausen (ff. 129-176) in the year 1337. It is decorated with an initial portraying St. Francis as a knight (f. 4r) and a vignette showing the bestowal of the Stigmata (f. 77v). The appearance of the name of St. Clara in the text suggests that the codex was written in a cloister of the Poor Clares, perhaps the Paradise. It came into the posession of the Capuchin cloister in Frauenfeld at the beginning of the 17th century and has been held in the provincial archive of the Capuchins in Lucerne since 1848.
Online Since: 03/31/2011
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Legenda maior s. Francisci (1v-127r) Found in: Standard description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Prologus: (1v-4r)
Incipit: Apparuit gratia dei salvatoris nostri diebus istis novissimis, in servo suo Francisco
Explicit: Postremo de miraculis post transitum eius felicem ostensis, aliqua subnectuntur.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Vita: (4r-91v)
Incipit: Vir erat in civitate Assysii Franciscus nomine cuius memoria
Explicit: magnificentia virtutis altissimi cui est honor et gloria per infinita secula seculorum amen.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Miracula s. Francisci: (91v-126r)
Incipit: Ad omnipotentis dei honorem et gloriam. beati patris Francisci post glorificationem
Explicit: per merita servi sui Francisci ad laudem et gloriam unius dei et trini, qui vivit et regnat in secula seculorum, Amen.
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- AMBERG, ELISABETH (Scribe) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Josephus, Exoniensis (Author) | Michel, Bernardi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- AMBERG, ELISABETH (Scribe) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Josephus, Exoniensis (Author) | Michel, Bernardi (Author) Found in: Additional description
In addition to sermons and sermon-related material pertaining to Sundays, saints' days and feast-days dedicated to Mary, the manuscript contains part of S. Bonaventure's (1221-1274) commentary on the four books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, and the treatise De arca Noe by Marquard of Lindau (d. 1392).
Online Since: 06/09/2011
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Commentaria in libros II – IV sententiarum Petri Lombardi. (2r–66v)
Incipit: Queritur utrum minores angeli peccaverunt peccato superbie
Explicit: Queritur utrum innovabuntur elementa. Omnia elementa secundum substanciam remanebunt similiter et forme substanciales.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) Found in: Standard description
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This composite manuscript from the middle of the 15th century is from the Augustinian hermitage in Basel. Since 1470, several brothers there cared for the pilgrimage site Mariastein. This volume was probably left there and was found by the monks from Beinwil, when they took over the pilgrimage site in 1636. It contains, among others, sacred (S. Bonaventura), profane (Cicero, Sallust), historical (Piccolomini/Pius II.) and rhetorical (Laurentius de Aquileja) texts. The second part of the volume, containing the Rhetorica , was written in 1465/66 by the Augustinian Matthias Glaser from Breisach in Basel. A fragment glued to the interior of the front cover gives information regarding the content of the volume.
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: De praeparatione ad Missam. (1v-37v) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript consists of four parts from different eras. The first part (ff. 1r-59v, 2nd half of the 13th century) contains Bonaventure's Breviloquium; the second part (ff. 60r-153v, 13th-14th century) contains excerpts from the Talmud; the third part (ff. 154r-239v, 14th century) contains sermons by the Franciscan Gualterus de Brugis as well as the text Pharetra by Pseudo-Bonaventure; finally, the fourth part (240r-268v, first half of the 14th century) contains the collection of sermons Rusticani by the Franciscan Berthold of Regensburg. The Extractiones de Talmud are especially interesting since they represent the largest surviving corpus of Latin translations of the Talmud and since they were produced in Paris in 1244/1245, at the time of the revision of the condemnation of the Talmud, which had been proclaimed in 1240/1241. The version in this codex has the translations organized not following the order of the treatises, but instead thematically, according to the various arguments. The binding from the last century, for which parts of an old binding were reused and which shows traces of a chain, indicates that the manuscript originated in the Franciscan monastery of Schaffhausen.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Breviloquium. (1ra-58ra)
Incipit: Flecto genua mea (Eph 3,14-19). Magnus doctor gentium et predicator veritatis
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- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Pharetra. (217va-239vb)
Incipit: Angeli nisi quedam nobis interna nunciantes ad tempus ex aere corpora sumerent Ambitio mater ypocrisis latebras amat et tenebras lucis impaciens
Explicit: zelus sic circumspectus sit invictus.
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- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Gualterus, de Brugis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composed partly in parchment (pp. 1-74) and partly in paper (pp. 75-98), this fourteenth-century manuscript brings together three different texts. The Compendium moralitatum (1320-1322) of the Dominican James of Lausanne is built as a dictionary running from A[bicit mundus …] (p. 1a) to Y[pocrita] (p. 36b). There then follows the Symbolum magistri domini Bonae Venturae, as the rubric calls it (p. 37), which is in fact a text attributed to the Dominican Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, copied by a different hand than that of the preceding text (pp. 37a-72a). The section in paper contains excerpts from the Questiones de prologo quarti sententiarum (pp. 75a-98a) by the English Carmelite John Baconthorp (c. 1290-1348) [https://drcs.zahnd.be/oid/100499]. The cords and the sewing stations on the inside of the spine of the book (after p. 98) show that another part of the manuscript was originally bound in, and has since been removed. Fragments of canon law texts from the fourteenth-century serve as pastedowns.
Online Since: 09/06/2023
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- Aldobrandinus, de Tuscanella (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Franciscus, de Bacona (Author) | Jacobus, von Lausanne (Author) | Johannes, Baco (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript was produced in the late fourteenth century and shortly after the middle of the fifteenth century. The first half (pp. 17–347) was largely copied by Johannes Schorand (except pp. 17–47) and on p. 123, 303 and 347 is dated 1398. Pages 348–412 are written by several hands from the fifteenth century. The last part (pp. 413–538) comes from the hand of the Dominican friar Cuonradus Bainli and contains several datings: 1455 (p. 470, 475 and 488) and 1458 (p. 538). The manuscript contains predominantly sermons, but also other, chiefly theological, texts. On pp. 17–124 are the Sermones super Pater noster of Godefridus Heriliacensis (from Erlach on Lake Biel), followed by sermons De tempore on pp. 124–303. The explicit on p. 303 (Explicit Jacobus de Foragine) is deceptive; only a few sermons are by Jacobus de Voragine. In fact, the first 58 sermons are identical with the sermon collection of an anonymous Franciscan contained in Oxford, Merton College, MS 236 (15 c.), and referred to by its incipit, "Mendicus". Subsequently, from the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Cod. Sang. 329 has a mixture of material from the “Mendicus”-sermon collection and additional sermons from Jacobus de Voragine's Sermones de tempore. After both sermon collections follow a few shorter texts: pp. 304–347 of the Tractatus de symbolo fidei by Aldobrandinus de Toscanella, pp. 348–353 an Easter sermon from Albertus Patavinus's Expositio evangeliorum dominicalium (Inc. Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi et Salome emerunt aromata … Licet magna leticia sit rem desideratam invenire), pp. 355-357 canonical dispositions, pp. 358-360 the chapter De sancto Petro apostolo from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, and pp. 363-413 a Tractatus de amore dei, anime. The pages copied by Cuonradus Bainli begin with the Commentarius in decem praecepta by Henry of Friemar (pp. 413–475, with a detailed index pp. 470–475), followed by a Sermo de sacramento corporis Christi (pp. 479–488) and pp. 488–538 a text with the title Biblia virginis Marie, with a detailed index on pp. 488–491. The codex has various contemporary foliations. Johannes Lener owned the manuscript; after he died, it passed to Johannes Engler (cf. the comments in the hand of Johannes Schorand, p. 124 and 347, corrected and expanded by a fifteenth-century hand). Since the mid-sixteenth century at the latest, the manuscript was in the library of the Abbey of St. Gall, (p. 353, the library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer, from 1553–1564).
Online Since: 12/20/2023
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Symbolum S. Bonaventurae (S. 304-347) Found in: Standard description
- Albertus, Patavinus (Author) | Aldobrandinus, de Tuscanella (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Conradus, de Saxonia (Author) | Godefridus, Heriliacensis (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Albertus, Patavinus (Author) | Aldobrandinus, de Tuscanella (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Conradus, de Saxonia (Author) | Godefridus, Heriliacensis (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) Found in: Additional description
The paper manuscript, bound with a limp binding, is composed of four parts written in the first half of the fifteenth century. Parts II and IV are probably to be ascribed to the hand of Johannes de Nepomuk, who came from the Cistercian house of Nepomuk in Bohemia. The manuscript probably reached the Abbey of St. Gall by the middle of the fifteenth century at the latest. It contains Latin sermons, spiritual treatises, and documents pertaining to the Council of Constance in the years 1417–1418.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Occupatio devotorum (Kurzfassung von Bonaventura: Soliloquium) (180–205) Found in: Standard description
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Lignum vitae (343–371) Found in: Standard description
- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This extensive manuscript miscellany was written by the secular priest Matthias Bürer. According to the numerous colophons, he finished the copies of the texts in the period from ca. 1448 to 1463 in Kenzingen (Baden-Württemberg) and in many places in Tyrol. The manuscript transmits among other things several theological treatises, a confessors' manual, two mirrors of confession, an ars moriendi (“the art of dying”), the Acts of the Apostles with the Glossa ordinaria, sermons, as well as Books II–IV of Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues. After the death of Matthias Bürer in 1485, the manuscript went, along with other books, to the Abbey of St. Gall, in accordance with a 1470 agreement.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Sermo 28 (1)
Incipit: Quecumque necessitas cogat
Explicit: fuerit voluntatis immutatio.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Additional description
The first quire transmits various texts written non-uniformly (pp. 5-20). After a short, one-column text De excommunicatione (p. 22) is Jean Gerson's De audienda confessione (pp. 23a–70a). There then follow two works ascribed to Augustine in the Middle Ages, namely De spiritu et anima (cap. I-XXXIII on pp. 70a–92b) and Speculum (pp. 92b–109b); Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et libero arbitrio (pp. 110a–138a); Bonaventura's De compositione hominis exterioris under the title Speculum monachorum (pp. 139a–154a) and Lucius Annaeus Seneca's De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus (pp. 154a–166b). Pages 23a-109b are written in a two-column textualis with red headings and blue and red alternating pen-flourished initials as well as pieds-de-mouche. On pp. 110a-166b only red ink was used for such highlights. Between pp. 6 and 7 a slip of paper with writing is pasted in. On the lower margin distinctiones are often added (pp. 30–34, 72–76, 82–85, 111, 113, 121). Within the ruling lines of column 138a is a number-matrix. In column 138b there is a pen trial (ANNO with flourishes). There is a fair amount of marginalia. The pasteboard binding from the 17th or 18th century has a white leather cover with doubled scudding decoration as well as two green laces. The table of contents was added by Pius Kolb (p. 1).
Online Since: 09/06/2023
- Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Martinus, Bracarensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Monastery of St. Gall, written and compiled by several hands in the 15th century, contains (in addition to shorter texts and numerous blank pages): excerpts in alphabetical order of Latin writings by church fathers regarding various theological concepts (De abiectione – De voto; pp. 3−179); the work Soliloquium by the Franciscan theologian and philosopher Bonaventure (1221−1274; pp. 181−266); a copy of the anonymous work Stella clericorum that was often adopted in the 15th century (pp. 291−319); the work Speculum peccatoris falsely attributed to Augustine (pp. 339−354); the sermon Corde creditur ad iustitiam by Thomas Ebendorfer (pp. 355−361); the Capitulare monasticum III of 818/819 (pp. 363−367); a not quite complete copy of a letter from Theodomar, Abbot of Montecassino, to Charlemagne (pp. 369−373); and the Consuetudines Fuldenses from the 10th/11th century in the Redactio Sangallensis-Fuldensis (pp. 374−404). The wood binding is covered with red leather; on p. 361 three is a note by the scribe: per me syfridum pfragner.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Soliloquium (S. 181-266) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ebendorfer, Thomas (Author) | Theodemarus, Casinensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This paper manuscript, copied in the fourteenth century by many hands, is a collection of spiritual texts. It has two fifteenth-century ex libris of the Abbey Library (p. 1), as well as the stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer, from between 1553 and 1564 (p. 64). On the top pastedown appears a table of contents contemporary to the fifteenth-century half binding in red leather. An excerpt from the Stimulus amoris (III, 17) starts the book (pp. 1-9). It is followed by a widely-copied book by the Franciscan Bonaventure, De triplice via, also known under the title Incendium amoris (pp. 10-25), and then a treatise on the eight beatitudes (pp. 25-36). Passages from John Chrysostom's De reparatione lapsi appear in two different places in this manuscript (pp. 41-54 and 186-193). Hugh of Saint Victor's Soliloquium de arra animae, also widely copied in the Middle Ages, follows on pages 54-64 (Goy 1976, n° 94). Finally, this volume contains the Speculum humanae salvationis (pp. 65-171), extended with two of its three non-typological chapters, De septem stationibus passionis Christi (pp. 171-177) and De septem tristitiis B. V. Mariae (pp. 177-185). Contrary to normal practice, this text is not illustrated; even the fact that it is rhymed is hardly observable, since it is copied continuously.
Online Since: 05/31/2024
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Tractatus Bonaventure de contemplacione (S. 10-23)
Incipit: Ecce descripsi eam tripliciter
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This composite manuscript in Northeastern Swiss-Alemannic dialect was probably written for the community of the sisters of St. Georgen above St. Gall; it contains numerous shorter and longer texts by known and unknown authors, among them: pp. 1−106: Thomas à Kempis, 3rd book of the Imitatio Christi; pp. 106−123: Bonaventure, excerpts from the work De triplici via; pp. 124−126: preacher of St. Georgen, sermon Geistliche Blume; pp. 126−134: Meister Eckhart (attributed), treatise Von der Vollkommenheit; pp. 135−166: Johannes Tauler, sermon on Mt 13,8 and other sermon excerpts; pp. 167−181: two anonymous sermons Vom Leiden und Meiden; pp. 184−259: treatise from the “Schwester Katrei"; pp. 259−268 anonymous didactic dialog with Timothy's questions to Paul; pp. 271−372: Johannes of Neumarkt, excerpts from the 3rd so-called Jerome letter; pp. 377−407: Marquard of Lindau, Job-treatise; pp. 409−434 and pp. 472−481 (wrongly bound together by a bookbinder): Das Buch des Lebens by an anonymous author; pp. 435−442: excerpts from Meister Wichwolt (Cronica Alexandri des grossen Königs); pp. 446−448: Ps.-Bertold of Regensburg, Bertold's ten lessons for a spiritual sister. About half of the texts were written by the Reformist monk Friedrich Kölner from Hersfeld, who was active at St. Gall Abbey from 1430 until 1436; the other parts were written in the 15th century by three other hands.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Johannes, von Neumarkt (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Johannes, von Neumarkt (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, written around 1500 by the Sisters of the third order of St. Francis at Wonnenstein near Teufen, not far from St. Gall, contains as an introduction a register (pp. 1−9) of manuscripts and printed works held in the convent library, compiled around 1500; it has a total of 110 entries. The majority consist of ascetic-edifying treatises; among them are Brother Conrad Nater's German translations of Bonaventure's Regula novitiorum (pp. 15−107), the German version of David of Augsburg's De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (pp. 109−188), the Ermahnung zu einem wahren klösterlichen Leben by the Franciscan monk Heinrich Vigilis of Weissenburg (pp. 190−223), the treatise Die besessene Nonne Agnes (pp. 225−404), a treatise on the passion attributed to Bernardino of Siena (Lernung das lyden unsers lieben heren zu betrachten; pp. 406−475), revelations by the mystics Gertrude of Helfta and Christine Ebner (pp. 476−486), Bonaventure's Soliloquium in a shortened German version (pp. 496−713), as well as the treatise Vom Reuer, Wirker und Schauer by the so-called Kuttenmann (pp. 717−727). On 11 February 1782, the St. Gall Abbey librarian Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756−1823) acquired this manuscript, together with four other manuscripts (today Cod. Sang. 972a, Cod. Sang. 976, Cod. Sang. 977 and Cod. Sang. 991) from the community of Capuchin nuns at Wonnenstein.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Ebner, Christine (Author) | Gertrudis, de Helfta (Author) | Kuttenmann (Author) | Vigilis, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Ebner, Christine (Author) | Gertrudis, de Helfta (Author) | Kuttenmann (Author) | Vigilis, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, written in 1498, is from the library of the regular community of sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis at the lower hermitage (Untere Klause) of St. Leonhard, outside the city gates of St. Gall. The unknown principal scribe — she wrote up to p. 536 — asks future readers for an Ave Maria in two places (p. 201; p. 536). The manuscript contains: in the beginning a copy of the Schürebrand (pp. 10−201) that is significant in terms of textual history; in the middle (pp. 206−339) parts 1 and 3 of the treatise Von dreierlei Abgründen attributed to St. Bonaventure; and in the end (pp. 344−535) the treatise on the passion Extendit manum by Heinrich of St. Gall. The salutation to Mary (“Mariengruss”) added to the end of the manuscript (pp. 537−539) was written by another hand. After the Reformation and the dissolution of the community of sisters of St. Leonhard, the manuscript came to the library of the Benedictine nuns of St. George and finally in 1780/82 to the Abbey Library of St. Gall.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Heinrich, von Sankt Gallen (Author) | Nikolaus, von Blaufelden (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Heinrich, von Sankt Gallen (Author) | Nikolaus, von Blaufelden (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Heinrich, von Sankt Gallen (Author) | Nikolaus, von Blaufelden (Author) Found in: Additional description
This volume consists of two manuscripts brought together, the first in parchment dating from the end of the thirteenth century and paginated in black ink from 7 to 118, the second in fifteenth-century paper and paginated in red pencil from 1 to 144. Judging by the binding, they were brought together in the nineteenth century, the period when the librarian of the Abbey of Saint Gall, Franz Weidmann, described the diverse contents of these two manuscripts on the first flyleaves (pp. 1-2). The first manuscript, probably copied in the south of France, contains a Latin poem, Certamen animae, composed by Raimond Astruc (pp. 7-95 in black ink), followed by another piece by the same author, Epistola de consolatione (pp. 95-98 in black ink). Letters of Charles I of Anjou, some verse texts concerning his victories, and moral satires (against the vices of the world, or against the religious orders) round out this first part (Delisle 1916). According to a note, a former Jesuit turned Reformation preacher in Montbéliard gave this manuscript to Bartholomäus Schobinger in Saint-Gall in 1598 (p. 5 in black ink). The second part of Cod. Sang. 1008, copied by a single fifteenth-century scribe, begins with the text by the Carthusian Heinrich Eger de Kalkar, De puritate conscientiae (pp. 1-17 in red pencil). A dialogue in Latin prose between Death and Master Polycarpus, Colloquium de morte (Pirożyńska 1966), follows (pp. 18-25 in red pencil). Then come meditations on the Passion of Christ (pp. 26-47 in red pencil), meditations of Saint Anselm (pp. 48-67 in red pencil), and, further, Bonaventure's De institutione novitiorum (pp. 116-139 in red pencil).
Online Since: 05/31/2024
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Astruc, Raimond (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Schobinger, Bartholome (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Beginning with a Dominican calendar from Strasbourg, this volume contains, among others, several texts by the Italian theologian and philosopher Bonaventura (1221-1274), the Regula monachorum ad Eustochium by the church father Jerome, excerpts from the ascetic-mystical treatise Stimulus amoris, the instructions for a monastic life by the Franciscan Heinrich Vigilis of Weissenburg, and David of Augsburg's work De compositione exterioris et interioris hominis, all in German. The volume, declared the Franciscan "Encheiridion asceticum" by Kurt Ruh, probably came to the Dominican cloister Wil in 1590 along with other Strasbourg manuscripts (Codd. Sang. 1904, 1915 and perhaps 1866).
Online Since: 10/07/2013
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Epistola continens viginti quinque memoralia (deutsch) (239-289)
Incipit: 240Jn christo dem aller liebsten winsch Jch B.ruder Bonauentura von ku̍nigßbaden Balneus regius/Bagnorea als sinen in dem herren mitbruͦder
Explicit: Jm kinfftig zit mit Jm werdest niessen ewige ere vnd froͤid Amen Doch so wiß das ich mir selber diß vor beschriben pintlin vnd stu̍cklin hab angezeichnet vnd vir gesetzet.
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