Pius II, Papa (1405-1464)
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This codex, which consists of several parts, contains primarily decrees, bulls, letters and decisions related to the Council of Basel (1431-1448), by various hands in Latin and German. Later hands added occasional notes, corrections and additions. Historiographic information is included with the so-called “Grössere Basler Annalen” and Latinized excerpts from the Rötteln Chronicle and the German Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen. This manuscript came from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel and then became part of the holdings of the Basel University Library.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Pius II, Papa: Epistula Aeneae Silvii ad Petrum de Noceto scripta, Basel, 21. Mai 1437 (627r-633v)
Incipit: Eneas Silvius Petro suo salutem. Credo me non solum heri mei reverendissimi cardinalis sancte crucis
Explicit: Ex Basilea xii kalendis Iunii m° cccc° xxxvii°
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Bulla Pii II papae, 13. Okt. 1458 (637r-638v)
Incipit: Pius Vocavit nos Pius et misericors deus ad sacram beati Petri sedem
Explicit: Datum Rome 3° Ydus Octobris pontificatus meus anno primo etc.
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Standard description - Aegidius, Carlerii (Author) | Alexander, de Roes (Author) | Binz, Gustav (Librarian) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Eugenius IV., Papa (Author) | Felix V., Antipapa, Papa (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Hildegard, von Bingen, Heilige (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Nicolaus, de Tudeschis (Author) | Philippe III., Bourgogne, Duc (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Rolevinck, Werner (Author) | Simon, de Teramo (Author) | Thomas, de Corcellis (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript was owned by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide, who donated it to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains a collection of speeches and letters by renowned humanists such as Poggio Bracciolini and Enea Silvio Piccolomini— among them an original letter from Johannes Reuchlin to Jakob Louber— with texts by Greek and Oriental authors in Latin translation. Parts of the manuscript are written by Heynlin and Reuchlin.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Pius II, Papa: Oratio responsiva ad oratores Gallos habita Mantuae 1459 (46r-80r)
Incipit: Pii pape secundi oratio responsiva ad orationem oratorum Gallicorum in celebri conventu Mantuano publice habita et divinitus imo spiritu pro sua excusatione recitata. Responsuri verbis vestris, insignes oratores
Explicit: et vocabitur christianissimus. Finis huius responsionis
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Epistula ad Sigismundum ducem Austriae data, Graz 1443 Dec. 5 (82r-97v)
Incipit: Illustrissimo principi Sigismundo Austrie duci Eneas Silvius poeta regalisque secretarius salutem plurimam dicit. In Cesaris curiam quamprimum migravi
Explicit: tuum habeto. Finis.
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Epistula ad Iohannem de Hinderbach data de heraldis, Wien 1451 Juni 1 (99r-104v)
Incipit: Querere multi solent unde sit heraldum nomen exortum
Explicit: nostri memor et amans.
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Epistula ad Ladislaum regem data de institutione liberorum, Wiener Neustadt 1450 Febr. (105r-161v)
Incipit: Serenissimo principi domino Ladislao Eneas episcopus Tregestinus salutem plurimam dicit. Si quem virtuti operam dare
Explicit: cupidissimus videare. Vale.
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Standard description - Balue, Jean (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Blondus, Flavius (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Translator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Librarian) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Johannes, Ioffridi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Louis XI., France, Roi (Author) | Maximus, Tyrius (Author) | Mehmed II., Osmanisches Reich, Sultan (Author) | Perottus, Nicolaus (Translator) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) | Proclus, Constantinopolitanus (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Translator) | Senilis, Paulus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript comes from the library of the Carthusian monastery of Basel and contains school texts on the ancient comic poet Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) (ca. 195 - ca. 159 B.C.), such as Comoediae cum didascaliis, as well as various Rhetoricae, or teachings on the art of speech making and letter writing. The first part of the manuscript was written by the later Prior Jacob Lauber while he was still a student in 1471 and 1472.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Pius II, Papa: Epistulae selectae, partim excerptae (164r-179v)
Incipit: Non miror quod nichil ad me scribis
Explicit: quam cesaris nova civitas
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Oratio ficta Casparis Schlick cancellarii ad Fridericum III imperatorem directa de sede Frisingensi, 1444 (179v-185r)
Incipit: Si putarem apud te, gloriosissime Cesar, meliorem lacrimis
Explicit: benigne [recte -a] mente recipite scripta.
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Standard description - Alpoleius, Jacobus, de Urbisaglia (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Gasparinus, Barzizius (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Henricus, Francigena (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Scribe) | Louber, Jakob (Commentator) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Luder, Petrus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Theophrastus (Author) Found in: Standard description
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.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Pius II, Papa: Litterae [encyclicae] de Turcis (166r-170r)
Incipit: Pius episcopus, servus servorum Dei Vocavit nos pius et misericors Deus
Explicit: et christiani populi salute quieteque consulamus.
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa: Oratio ad principes imperii. (170r-181v)
Incipit: Collacio domini Enee episcopi, cesarei oratoris, facta in dieta Franckfordensi celebrata in festo Michaelis anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimoquarto ( = 29. September 1454), qui ex post (corrige / episcopo) lviij (= 1458) factus est papa Pius secundus. Constantinopolitana clades
Explicit: si hoc bellum pro divino honore atque amore suscipietis. Finit.
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Standard description - Pius II, Papa (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: 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 collection of works was produced during the third quart of the 15th century, under the influence of early humanism, in one of the southwestern German states. It contains German and Latin texts from the late middle ages as well as some interlinear and marginal glosses. The newer works by humanist authors include contributions by Petrarch, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), Hieronymus de Vallibus and Antonio Barzizza.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
- Pius II, Papa: Carmen Sapphicum. (123ra–123vb)
Incipit: Quid tibi tandem scelerate queris
Explicit: Quam pius nobis mancat redemptor Ethere missus
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Standard description - Adolfus, Viennensis (Author) | Alanus, ab Insulis (Author) | Albertanus, Brixiensis (Author) | Arnoldus, Leodiensis (Author) | Barzizza, Antonio (Author) | Burlaeus, Gualterus (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Mönch, von Salzburg (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Steinhöwel, Heinrich (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
