Cassianus, Johannes (360-432)
This manuscript, in a strikingly narrow format, was created in Mainz and, as a gift from the Carthusians living there, it later came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel. It contains a large number of short and very short texts: in addition to some sermons, it mainly contains excerpts from theological, church historical and political treatises, including some in German.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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This small-format codex probably is from the Carthusian monastery of Mainz, from where it came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, where numerous ownership notes were added. It contains a great variety of excerpts from religious, historical and other literature from the Middle Ages and antiquity. The length of the texts also varies considerably: in addition to short excerpts and two- or four-line verses about various things such as popes or bees, there are longer pieces such as Hugh of Fouilloy's De rota verae et falsae religionis or the first half of Paradisus Animae by Pseudo-Albertus Magnus.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Adamus, de Einesham (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Hugo, de Folieto (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Hugo, Lincolniensis (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Jacopone, da Todi (Author) | Johannes, Damascenus (Author) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, Lombardus (Author) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Venturinus, de Bergamo (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume is from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains the first part of the Collationes Patrum by John Cassian (360/365-432/435). It also contains assorted excerpts on the life and work of Cassian from various sources, as well as a letter on the way of life at the Abbey of Monte Cassino under abbot Desiderius (1058-1087). This manuscript was produced in Lorsch and forms a unit together with B V 14. It has supplements and signs of use up to the15th century.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, along with volume B V 13 together with which it forms a unit, was produced in Lorsch and later reached the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. It contains the second part of the Collationes Patrum by John Cassian (360/365-432/435), Cassian's conversations with the Desert Fathers. In comparison with B V 13, there are relatively few corrections and annotations.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) 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
- 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 manuscript is part of a substantial Carolingian composite manuscript, the surviving parts of which today are held in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Cod. 330, 347, 357), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (Ms. Lat. 7665), and in the Universitätsbibliothek Leiden (Voss. Lat. Q 30). Cod. 330 contains the last part of the volume with works on orthography by Cassiodorus, Alcuin-Bede, Caper, Terentius Scaurus, Agroetius, as well as several other texts.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Agroecius, Senonensis (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caper, Flavius (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Scaurus, Quintus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Three large-format leaves from a manuscript produced in Eastern France and containing the Instituta coenobiorum of John Cassian. The fragment, probably taken from a medieval book binding, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript consisting of four very different parts that probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars; parts B and C are from the Collège de Navarre in Paris. All parts are at least partly illuminated. All fragments have related parts in other libraries: for part A, Paris BN lat. 7709, f. 1–4; for B, Paris BN lat. 17566, f. 1–40; for C, Paris BN lat. 17902, f. 1–85; and for D, Leiden UB, Voss. Q 2 IX (f. 60).
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Coeur, Jean (Patron) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, de Grana (Annotator) | Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Steiger, Karl Ludwig von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the third part (Collationes 18-24) of the Vitae et collationes patrum by John Cassian. The text is introduced by a full-page miniature, showing a medallion with Cassian in the middle, in the process of writing his work, surrounded by four abbots on a checkered background: Piamun and Giovanni with a round nimbus, Pinufius and Theonas with a square one. This manuscript was part of a group of codices that were created during the term of Abbot Thietland (961 until about 964).
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This copy of Cassian's Collationes contains on 1r a two-line ownership note attributing the codex to Abbot Berchtold of Engelberg (1178-1197) as well as the beginning of a dedicatory poem to the Virgin Mary, the monastery's patron saint. Both inscriptions also appear verbatim in the volumes that were written under Berchtold's predecessor Frowin (1143-1178). Decorated initials introduce each of the collationes, and sometimes the chapter-lists; between the collationes the text is divided with red decorated capitals. Tears and holes in the parchment have been artistically sewn up; of particular note are those on 48v and 190v.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the De institutis coenobitorum and the Collationes patrum by John Cassian. It was acquired new by Schönensteinbach Cloister (France), thanks to a donation for this purpose from the nun Magdalena Bechrerin. The manuscript belonged to Franz Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach, Bishop of Basel from 1782 to 1794. A manuscript with identical content and similar colophon, dated 1408, originated in the Dominican Convent of Nuremberg and is now held in that city's library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Joseph (Annotator) | Odilo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Trouillat, Joseph (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Cassian, De constitutione coenobiorum.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
- Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
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Part I of The conferences (Collationes patrum I-X) composed by John Cassian († about 435). This copy was made in St. Gall in the first half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
Part III of The conferences (Collationes patrum XVII-XXIV), composed by John Cassian († about 435). This copy was made in St. Gall in the first half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
Part II of The conferences (Collationes patrum XI-XVII), composed by John Cassian († about 435). This copy was made in St. Gall in the first half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description