Manuscript Summary:Tract by the Engelberg Abbot Frowin (1143-1178) about free will, the De laude liberi arbitrii libri septem, from the 12th century. This as-yet unedited work is regarded as an important contribution from the perspective of monastic theology during the early scholastic period.(keg)
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. 79-80.
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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. 244, S. 90.
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Additional description: Bergmann Rolf / Stricker Stephanie, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, Bd. I, Berlin 2005, S. 382-383.
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Online Since: 07/31/2007
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 46
Parchment · 389 pp. · 26.7 x 19.5 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Frowin, De laude liberi arbitrii libri septem
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P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 79-80.
Date of origin: Exaratus saeculo XII.
Extent:
Foliorum 389
Format: 267 : 195 mm
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Writing and hands:
litteris distinctus, nitidissimo charactere exaratus saeculo XII.
Decoration: rubricatus et rubris initialibus
Accompanying materials: Foliis 52. 176. 183. 200. et 385. addita sunt supplementa, folia sc. minoris formae.
Contents:
1°.
Frowinus, abbas Engelbergensis († 1178): De laude liberi arbitrii libri septem
(Fol. 1)
praemittuntur hi versus:
Omnia terminat, omnia format et ordinat unus.
Ordo, modus, species penitus fluit omnis ab uno.
Vive(re) distribuit deus omnibus esse, moveri.
Vita, salus, intellectus, lux, mentio, sensus,
Virtus, tranquillum, mensura, potentia, pulchrum.
Copia, pax, suave, species, modus ordoque quisque
A domino manat, manet et meat, ut iubet ipse,
Ex quo, per quem sunt, in quo sunt omnia facta.
(Fol. 1')
>Praefatiuncula sequentis operis<
, (rubr.)
Desiderio tuo, Frater Adelberte, morem genere curavi …–…
cuius ut scribere vellem, fecit dei caritas.
Eodem folio incipiunt capitula singulorem librorem.
(Fol. 9)
>Incipit opusculi Frowini abbatis in monte angelorum de laude liberi arbitrii liber primus.<Liberum igitur arbitrium est rationalis voluntas …–…
nonnullas potuit inveniri levatio.>Explicit liber septimus qui est ultimus Frowini abbatis de monte angelorum de laude liberi arbitrii feliciter.< Codex scribentem finitus fecit ovantem, Is quoque laetatur, in eo bene qui meditatur.
Praefationem et capitum titutlos edidit Mabillon, Annal. Bened. tom. VI. Append. pag. 657 sqq. (Lutetiae Paris 1739.)
P. L. 179, 1801-1812. De b. Frowino abb. cfr. cod. 5 in fine.
2°.
Fol. 389'Hexametri leonini 51 enumerantes nomina vulocrum, ferarum et lignorum campestrium cum glossis germanicis
V. 1. Hic volucres coeli referam sermone fideli:
V. 2. Accipiter habich., nisus spareware., capus falcho. atque ciconia storch., picus.specht..
V. 51. Fiscum postremo, quod crescit in arbore, pono.
Cfr. Tabb. codd. Vindob. 3213. 6.
Origin of the manuscript:
sub b. Frowino abbate, quod probant versus sequentes fol. 1: Has Frowin cartas electo dogmate fartas Fecit conscribi. Fac bene Christe sibi.
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