Manuscript Summary:This manuscript contains the so-called Reformatio Sigismundi, a document about the reform of church and empire that was written anonymously in German in 1439 during the Council of Basel by an author who until today has not been reliably identified. The text was printed for the first time in 1476. The treatise presents reform proposals that emphasize the importance of pastoral care and that promote releasing secular clergy from obligatory celibacy and releasing bishops from exercising temporal power. The treatise also reports Emperor Sigismund’s alleged vision, according to which a priest-king Frederick is said to have appeared to him with plans for the reform. In a colophon on p. 234, the writer gives his name as Petrus Hamer von Weissenhorn, chaplain in Kirchberg. He begins the chapters with red initials and decorates two of them with caricatures of bearded faces (p. 158 and 212).(nie)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichnis der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 358-359.
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Additional description: Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. III: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken St. Gallen-Zürich, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper und Marlis Stähli, Dietikon-Zürich 1991, S. 81.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 957
Paper · 240 pp. · 21 x 15.5 cm · Kirchberg (near Ulm) · 1469
Reformatio Sigismundi
How to quote:
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 957, p. 189 – Reformatio Sigismundi (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0957)
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 358-359.
Manuscript title: Reformation K. Sigismunds und K. Friedrichs, deutsch, von Fr. v. Landskron.
Date of origin: v. 1469
Support: Papier
Extent:
240 Seiten
Format: 4°
Writing and hands: geschrieben von Petrus Hamer de Weissenhoren cappellanus in Kirchberg.
Contents:
Reformation K. Sigismunds und K. Friedrichs.
deutsch, von Fr. v. Landskron.
Diese deutsche Übersetzung ist gedruckt in Bämler's Chronik 2te Ausg. Augsb. 1476 Fol. (Panzer Annalen I, 90); lat. bei Goldast Stat. imper. I p. 176.Von dem Schreiber 'Petrus Hamer Cappellanus in Kirchberg' ist auch eine Abschrift des Apollonius und der Griseldis vom J. 1468 in Donaueschingen (Barack Katalog p. 151).Weissenhorn und Kirchberg liegen südöstl. v. Ulm.
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