Eccardus, Minimus (ca. 1220)
This quaestio disputata by the Augustinian Johannes of Paltz (around 1445-1511) is a perfect illustration of the working methods of medieval scholasticism. The manuscript was written in Erfurt in the summer of 1486 and has as its topic the refutation of three errors. The first regards those who claim “to be able to calculate and foresee the Last Judgment.” It seems that this document is the only handwritten version of this text, which is known through two printed editions from the 15th century. Franz Xaver Karker (1812-1892), Canon of the Cathedral of Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), donated this work to the Fribourg library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, von Paltz (Author) | Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This small but extensive (198 ff.) prayer book is written in a variant of North German (Middle Low German). In accordance with the female form in many of the prayers, it was intended for a woman. With the exception of one full-page miniature depicting Christ as the gardener before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), all illuminations have been removed. An ex-libris on the front pastedown informs us that this small manuscript was a gift to the Fribourg Library in 1891 from Franz Xaver Karker, canon of Wroclaw Cathedral.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanistic script, was commissioned by Pope Leo X († 1521). The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding's cover, in a rich frieze on the frontispiece, and in the initials on f. 3v and f. 134v. The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525) or his circle. This codex is from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Attavanti, Attavante (Illuminator) | Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Leo X., Papst (Patron) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris (Author) Found in: Standard description
Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can be dated to the 15th century. It belonged to Franz Miklosich (1813-1891), one of the most important Slavicists of his time, and was a gift to the Basel Antiques Collection, the precursor of the Basel Historical Museum.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Lectionary for feast days of saints, written at least partially by St. Gall Abbey Librarian Anton Vogt (around 1486-1529), by order of Prince-Abbot Franz Gaisberg (1504-1529). The illumination (scrolls with flowers and animals, numerous ornamental initials, among them six portrayals of figures) is by the illuminator Nikolaus Bertschi from Augsburg. A calendar (f. Ir-Xv) precedes the lectionary (f. 1r-130r), which then is followed by readings for the commemoratio of the patron saints of St. Gall and of Mary, and by collects for feast days of saints.
Online Since: 06/23/2014
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
The two main components of this manuscript are the lives of the house saints of St. Gall (Gallus, Otmar, Wiborada and Notker Balbulus) and of the apostles and early Christian saints and martyrs, and the Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Gall, from the Casus sancti Galli by Ratpert (612-883) to the Continuatio by Conradus de Fabaria (1204-1234). St. Gall reformer Vadian added marginal notes, some of them quite detailed and critical, to the text describing the history of the cloister. The codex also contains chronicalistic notes about St. Gall and Switzerland (14th/15th centuries), the Reise in das Heilige Land by Steffan Kapfman, and computistic, medical, astronomical and theological texts. On two previously empty pages (pp. 324-325) St. Gall abbey librarian Idelfons von Arx added four recipes for making faded handwriting legible.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
- Eccardus, Minimus: Vita Notkeri (476a-515a) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus (Author) | Armandus, de Bellovisu (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Arx, Ildefons von (Scribe) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Eccardus I, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Ermenricus, Elwangensis (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) | Iso, Sangallensis (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Annotator) | Kapfman, Steffan (Author) | Petrus, de Dacia (Author) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus (Author) | Armandus, de Bellovisu (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Arx, Ildefons von (Scribe) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Eccardus I, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Ermenricus, Elwangensis (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) | Iso, Sangallensis (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Annotator) | Kapfman, Steffan (Author) | Petrus, de Dacia (Author) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Anonymus (Author) | Armandus, de Bellovisu (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Arx, Ildefons von (Scribe) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Eccardus I, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Ermenricus, Elwangensis (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) | Iso, Sangallensis (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Annotator) | Kapfman, Steffan (Author) | Petrus, de Dacia (Author) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, named after the person who commissioned it, Abbot Franz Gaisberg (abbot 1504-1529), contains assorted historiographic and hagiographic texts: a history of the abbots of St. Gall with coats of arms, epitaphs of St. Gall abbots and monks, the history of the St. Gall abbey (Casus sancti Galli) for the years 1200-1232 by Konrad von Fabaria, the anonymous Vita of Notker Balbulus († 912), together with a copy of the records of his beatification process in 1513 and the legends of saints Constantius, Minias, and Roch. The codex was written by the organist and calligrapher Fridolin Sicher of the St. Gall Abbey (1490-1546).
Online Since: 03/31/2011
- Eccardus, Minimus: Vita Notkeri Balbuli et acta canonisationis eius (151-307) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Prologus (151-153) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Vita (153-235)
Incipit: Cristus dei virtus ac dei sapientia
Explicit: quia occultata ad huc sunt a nobis. etc.
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- Eccardus, Minimus: Acta canonisationis. (235-307) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Rubrica de chartis Hugonis ep. constant. et Joh. Zwick notarii (235) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Textus chartae, actorum, testimoniorum (alle 16. Jh.) (235-269) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Oratio in beati Notkeri vitam. (240-249)
Incipit: Instituenti michi apud dominaciones vestras
Explicit: e quibus hic multa subiecta. Dixi.
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- Eccardus, Minimus: Miracula (269-305) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus, Minimus: Varia (306-307) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Diedus, Franciscus (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Johannes, Piscator (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Schmid, Johannes (Author) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Diedus, Franciscus (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Johannes, Piscator (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Schmid, Johannes (Author) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Diedus, Franciscus (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Johannes, Piscator (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Schmid, Johannes (Author) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertschi, Nikolaus (Illuminator) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Diedus, Franciscus (Author) | Eccardus, Minimus (Author) | Gaisberg, Franz (Patron) | Johannes, Piscator (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Schmid, Johannes (Author) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Additional description