Mechthild, von Hackeborn (1241-1298)
This fascicle, consisting of only three pages, contains prayers and a text about the seven heavenly joys of Mary.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Oracio ad beatam virginem ut assit morienti in agone (fol. 3r-v)
Incipit: Obsecro domina mea beatissima virginum regina
Explicit: Ista oracio sumpta est ex revelacionibus Mechtildis virginis.
Found in:
Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn (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
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae (38r-42v)
Incipit: Dis ist us dem buͦch der geistlichen genoden geschriben. Die sellige andechtige iungfrouwe Mechilt oppfrettc zuͦ einer zit fúnff tussint fier hundert und núnczig patter noster
Found in:
Standard description
- 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
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Exercitium religiosi Christiani e libro spiritualis gratiae compilatum (223r-247v)
Incipit: Saluta florens et amans cor dulcissimi redemptoris et amatoris tui Iesu a quo omne bonum
Explicit: ac dulci sopore requiescans in pace. Amen.
Found in:
Standard description
- 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 composite volume, originally composed of ten fascicles, was at least partly written in the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. One of the writers is Hans Lesser, a brother from St. Gallen. The small-format manuscript was part of the library of the lay brothers of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel and contains various German-language prayers and devotional texts, some of which refer explicitly to the lay brothers of the Carthusian Monastery.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Mystisches Gebet auf Gottes Liebe (136v-137r)
Incipit: Uß den offenbarungen sancte Michtildis ist genummen diß nachgeschreben gebet. O du allersterckste liebde gottis, ich lobe dich
Explicit: durch das aller edelste instrument dines gotlichen hertzen und das sie werden wirken ewiglich
Found in:
Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Herlingk, Peter (Scribe) | Lesser, Hans (Scribe) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) Found in: Standard description
This German book of meditations and prayers for Dominican nuns was produced at the Inselkloster St. Michael in Bern. It contains, inter alia, numerous excerpts from the writings of Gertrud of Helfta and Mechthild of Hackeborn. Most of it was written in 1507 by Sister Luzia von Moos. Beginning in the 17th century the manuscript is known to have been in the possession of the Solothurn family Gugger; at the beginning of the 19th century it was obtained by the Solothurn City Library.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae (46r-49r) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae (70r-70v)
Incipit: Noch dem da diese gottes dienerin vff dem zwölften tag vnssers herren fronlichnam hat entphangen do sprach vnsser herr zů ir: Sich ich gib dir dz gold dz ist min göttliche minn
Explicit: diese driu mocht der moensch got alle jor vff disen tag opfren: die götliche minn, die hiterkeit siner helikeit, die frucht vnd bitterkeit siner helgen marter
Found in:
Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae (91v-94r) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae (99r-100v)
Incipit: An dem balmtag do sy ir gedenck bekimret hat
Explicit: wenn sy mit andechtiger jnniger genemikeit gedencket und do fùr vnssren herren jhesum lobende gebenedyet-
Found in:
Standard description
- Gertrudis, de Helfta (Author) | Gugger, Urs (Former possessor) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder) Found in: Standard description
- Gertrudis, de Helfta (Author) | Gugger, Urs (Former possessor) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder) Found in: Additional description
This codex contains the first five books of the Liber specialis gratiae by Mechthild von Hackeborn; books 6 and 7 are missing. On p. 3 there is also a fragment of the Epistola de Ihesu Christo by Ps.-Lentulus Romanus de Judea. The notes on p. 224, which name Johannes Tauler and Konrad (in the codex: Johannes) of Prussia as previous owners, suggest an origin in a Dominican environment. In the 15th century, this manuscript belonged to Ulrich Varnbüler (brother of Angela Varnbüler, who was prioress of the Dominican Convent St. Katharina in St. Gall from 1476-1509; mayor/imperial vogt of St. Gall 1481-1490).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Buch der besonderen Gnade Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis vel: spiritualis gratiae, libri I-V (5-224) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Prologus (5a-6a) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber I (6b-92a) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: II (92a-125a) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: III (125a-160b) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: IV (160b-193a) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: V (193a-224a) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Conradus, de Prussia (Former possessor) | Lentulus (Author) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Scherrer, Gustav (Librarian) | Tauler, Johannes (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Conradus, de Prussia (Former possessor) | Lentulus (Author) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Scherrer, Gustav (Librarian) | Tauler, Johannes (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
Collection manuscript, 15th century, from the Dominican convent of St. Katharina in St. Gall. This German-language manuscript is made up of five fascicles and contains a treatise on the Passion of Christ (“Vierzig Myrrhenbüschel vom Leiden Christi‟): the story of the foundation of the Dominican convent of St. Katharinental near Diessenhofen; the "Diessenhofener Schwesternbuch" and the "Tösser Schwesternbuch"; the legends of saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Margaret of Hungary, Ida of Toggenburg and Louis of Toulouse as well as a short excerpt from the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechthild of Hackeborn in German translation.
Online Since: 12/12/2006
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Buch der besonderen Gnade Found in: Standard description
- Mechthild, von Hackeborn: Liber specialis gratiae deutsch, Auszüge (441b-443b)
Incipit: Ihesus Christus lert dis selber. Dis ist wie du din versumnus mit lob solt erfuͤllen vnd widerbringen gen got vͦnser lieber her lert Sant Trutten
Explicit: der sij uebel gebrucht hat oder jr versumnus genuͦgsamlich wider bringen will.
Found in:
Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Greith, Carl Johann (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Sattler, Regina (Scribe) Found in: Standard description