Manuscript Summary:This codex contains Augustine’s commentary on the Psalms, written in a small, extremely fine script. The verse on 1r names Abbot Frowin (1143-1178) as creator of the volume. In addition to simple red initials, the manuscript also includes individual extremely artful initials by the Engelberg Master in brown and red ink. The portrayal of Christ as grape-treader on 101r is particularly noteworthy; like several other sections, it is on a erased section. Beside and beneath the attachments one occasionally finds fine sketches for initials, designs, or figures.(grd)
Standard description: P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 28.
Show standard description
Additional description: Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. II: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern-Porrentruy, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Dietikon-Zürich 1983, Nr. 227, S. 84-85.
Show additional description
Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 111.
Show additional description
Additional description: Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 97.
Show additional description
Online Since: 06/09/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 12
Parchment · 155 ff. · 40.8 x 29.5 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Augustinus, Enarrationes in psalmos
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 12, Head – Augustinus, Enarrationes in psalmos (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0012)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 28.
Manuscript title: Augustinus S. Aurelius. Enarrationes in psalmos.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 1/12.
Extent:
Foliorum 155
Format: 408 : 295 mm.
Page layout:
columnis binis
Decoration: Codex decoratus est litteris initialibus cum figuris optime delineatis, quas - litteris primaevis crasis - artifex manus saec. XII. exeuntis adiecit.
Contents:
Tomus II. in quo psalmi a quinquagesimo primo usque ad centesimum exponuntur.
Origin of the manuscript: sub b. Frowino abbate, quod docent versus leonini in fronte codicis:
Psalmorum lumen noscas hoc esse volumen.
Institit id fieri Frowi(n) pro lumine veri.
Open in Mirador
Thumbnails