Heinrich Arnoldi (1407-1487)
This Liber benefactorum, the book of benefactors of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, was written gradually between the 1430s and the 1520s. The main part of the manuscript, a calendar created in the early 15th century, contains the names of over 800 benefactors. The manuscript was designed from the beginning as a Liber benefactorum and has close ties to an annal from the Basel charterhouse that was written during the tenure of Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (StABS, Klosterarchiv Kartaus N).
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- Carpentarii, Georgius (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains handwritten and printed texts concerning questions on the history of the order, on the spiritual life, as well as on theological interpretations, as for example the commentary on Ecclesiastes by Denis the Carthusian (1402-1471). The handwritten parts are by various hands, among them the Carthusian Johannes Gipsmüller of Basel (1439-1484).
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De sanctis ordinis Cartusiensis (176r)
Incipit: Beatorum patrum nostrorum infrascriptorum sanctimonia in vita et eorum beatitudinem in gloria innumerabilium quam miraculorum multitudo tam ante quam post ipsorum mortem commendat
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- Adamus, de Einesham (Author) | Arnoldus, de Villa Nova (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Dionysius, Cartusianus (Author) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, Saresberiensis (Author) | Leonardus, Nogarolus (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This chronicle, which came to the Basel University Library as part of the holdings of the Museum Faesch, contains two parts. The first part was written by Heinrich Arnoldi and deals with the foundation and development of the monastery until 1480; it is written in the form of a dialogue between the prior of the monastery and its patron saint, St. Margaret. This dialogue format, which Arnoldi employed in several of his writings, is unusual for historical content; it is abandoned in the second part. This second part, an autograph by Georg Carpentarius, continues the chronicle until 1526, that is, until shortly before the dissolution of the monastery in 1529.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Carpentarii, Georgius: Chronica fundationis Carthusiae in Basilea minori, 1401-1480 [cum continuatione Georgii Carpentarii, 1480-1526] / Henricus Arnoldi de Alveldia Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Chronica fundationis domus Cartusiensis in Basilea minori (1-77)
Incipit: Que temporaliter gesta sunt, ne cum temporis lapsu evanescant, opus est, ut litterarum ministerio confirmentur. Alioquin oblivio facile delebit, quod auditus percepit. Bonum ergo est commendare scripture
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- Carpentarii, Georgius (Author) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Ströulin, Martin (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This codex from the holdings of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains as a first part a treatise about the appropriate penance for various transgressions against commandments and sacraments. A second part consists of a collection of Latin hymns with an interlinear translation into German, as well as a loose translation into German as continuous text, in part also combined with a short interpretation. This is followed by texts about the mass and several Opuscula by Gregory of Nazianzus, a letter by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide about the qualities of a good priest, and a brief text by Heinrich Arnoldi about a sermon on Mary.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Opusculum per modum sermonis de veneranda compassione seu animae martyrio virginis Mariae (155r-169v)
Incipit: Prohemium in opusculum per modum sermonis de veneranda compassione seu anime martirio gloriosissime genitricis dei semper virginis Marie. Venerabili et egregio viro magistro Wilhelmo Textoris de Aquisgrani in sacra theologia doctori eximio ecclesie Basileensis Canonico, domino ac preceptori suo dignissimo. Frater ille H. utinam sic vita ut professione Cartusiensis cum oracionum suffragio animum obsequendi venerabilis domine doctor atque preceptor
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- Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Johannes, de Segovia (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian monastery of Basel contains — partly handwritten and partly printed — primarily texts of devotional and spiritual content. Author (and for the first part of the manuscript also the scribe) for the most part is Heinrich Arnoldi, Prior of the Carthusian monastery from 1449-1480.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sammelband (Henricus Arnoldi) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Passio domini una ex quattuor commixta, cum glossulis (12r-34r)
Incipit: Passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi textum seu historiam in unam quandam continuam contrahere consonantiam ;
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Oratio pro caritate impetranda a domino Iesu (37r-38v)
Incipit: Amorosissime domine Ihesu Christe amator meus unice amicorum summe
Explicit: in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia secula seculorum amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Tractatus de modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam dei et proximi dilectionem (39r-86v)
Incipit: Caritatis excellentia satis in divino commendatur eloquio ;
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Dialogus Iesu et Mariae de mysterio redemptionis humanae (88r-104v)
Incipit: Dyalogus iste inter Ihesum et Mariam in tres partes dividitur ;
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Dialogus de exercitiis spiritualibus (105v-113v)
Incipit: Margareta Antiochena ad suum servum: Intellexi tuum desiderium quomodo cupias mecum colloqui
Explicit: et omnibus te diligentibus in salutem. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Dialogus de sancta cruce (114r-117r)
Incipit: Qui vult venire post me Matth. 16,24. De hiis verbis et de sancta cruce opto, domina mea sancta Margareta
Explicit: et largire sempiterna gaudia
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Dialogus beneficiis dei (118r-122v)
Incipit: Servulus loquitur: Beneficia ut quidam sapiens ait merentur gratitudinem
Explicit: et ad meam salutem. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Litania contra Turcos (126-139) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Legenda Brunonis (226r-236r)
Incipit: Quidam sapiens exhortationis gracia dicit laudemus viros gloriosos
Explicit: plura posset explorare nos latencia.
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- Dionysius, Cartusianus (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) | Johann, von Dülmen (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Moser, Ludwig (Scribe) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have been intensely used, as suggested by soiling and signs of heavy usage. The original red leather binding is covered with another layer of leather that sticks out beyond the covers at the bottom and can be folded over the lower edge as protection. The manuscript contains prayers, hymns and other devotional texts by numerous different authors — primarily saints and popes — such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Bernard of Clairvaux. Also represented are Carthusian authors such as Heinrich Arnoldi. Several colored woodcut and metalcut prints have been glued onto leaf 4v and 316v.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Suffragium de apostolis, evangelistis et quattuor doctoribus ecclesiae (315v-316r)
Incipit: Non vos me elegistis
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Bonifatius IX., Papst (Author) | Coelestinus V., Papa (Author) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Thomas, Becket (Author) Found in: Standard description
This paper manuscript, prepared specifically by the scribe Johannes Loy for the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, contains a collection of sermons for reading in the chapter. The sermons were written by three Carthusians: Hieronymus Brönick, Heinrich Arnoldi and Heinrich Eger von Kalkar. An introductory note on folio 1v explains that in order to avoid uniformity, which is the mother of tedium, four different sermons are assembled for every feast day so that the same sermon will be held once only every leap year.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermones capitulares sex (33v-44r)
Incipit: Magnificat anima mea dominum [Luc 1,46]. Verba hec ipsa in capite cantici novi sunt quod hodie in psalterio decacordo
Explicit: cuius miramur virtutes per eundem dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum qui cum patre qui tamen patre in unitate spiritus sancti vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermo capitularis (62r-64r)
Incipit: Sapiencia edificavit sibi domum [Prov 9,1]. Venerabiles et karissimi patres si in verbis premissis per sapienciam voluerimus accipere filium dei
Explicit: nostris senciamus. Qui vivis et regnas etc.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermones capitulares (75r-77v)
Incipit: Ostende michi faciem tuam [Cant 2,14]. Ut aliquid virgini gloriosissime Marie eiusque filio gratum et nobis edificatorium loqui possimus
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- Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Hieronymus Brünick de Lignitz OCart (Author) | Loy, Johannes (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This codex, with a binding partially in leather, contains mostly chapter sermons and collationes written by Heinrich Arnoldi; usually they begin with a quote from the Bible and are only a few pages long. The composite manuscript for in-house use was produced at the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, where it was written mostly by Martin Ströulin and in part by Heinrich Arnoldi himself. In addition to the handwritten part, it also contains two short prints.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de visitatione sanctae Mariae (20r-22r)
Incipit: Iocundissime visitationis gloriosissime virginis Marie festum celebrantes, venerandi patres et dilecti confratres, pro themate simplici sit istud verbum psalmiste
Explicit: ut mereamur in te gaudere perpetue per dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum filium tuum cum quo tu vivis et regnas per infinita seculorum secula. Amen. Sequitur alia collatio versis duobus foliis
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermo capitularis de visitatione virginis Mariae (24r-26v)
Incipit: Ostende michi faciem tuam, sonet vox tua in auribus meis. Canticorum secundo originaliter [cant. 2,14], sed recitative in epistula hodierne sollemnitatis. Ut aliquid virgini gloriosissime Marie eiusque filio gratum et nobis edificatorium loqui possimus, fratres karissimi
Explicit: cuius hodie visitacionem colimus concedat qui sine fine vivit et regnat. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de sancta Margaretha (26v-30r)
Incipit: Non est talis mulier visa super terram, in aspectu et pulchritudine, et in sensu verborum, Iudith xi [Idt 11,19]. Venerabiles et karissimi patres et fratres mei, quamvis verba hec ad litteram scripta sint de illa femina virtutum
Explicit: et beato consortio in futuro. Quod nobis eiusdem meritis et precibus sponsus suus dominus et deus noster Ihesus Christus concedat qui sine fine vivit et regnat. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de sancta Margaretha (30r-33r)
Incipit: Surge aquilo et veni auster, perfla ortum meum, et fluant aromata illius [cant. 4,16]. Si voluerimus fratres carissimi ad beate Margarethe virginis ac martiris laudem
Explicit: piissimo sponso domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui cum deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti vivit et regnat deus, per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de sancta Margaretha (33r-36v)
Incipit: Pro honorificencia nostre dignissime patrone beate Margarete cuius sollemnia annua devocione recolimus
Explicit: cuius miramur virtutes per eundem dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum qui cum patre in unitate spiritus sancti vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen etc. >1460<
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de eodem (37r-44r)
Incipit: Mel et lac sub lingwa tua, et odor vestimentorum tuorum sunt odor thuris. Ortus conclusus, soror mea sponsa. Canticorum quarto [cant. 4,11] originaliter scribitur, et in sanctarum virginum, de quarum numero non est minima beatissima Margareta, cuius solemnia colimus, laudibus frequenter canitur. In hiis verbis, venerabiles et carissimi patres ac fratres mei, celestis sponsus suam dilectam sponsam sanctam Margaretam commendat in dulcedine
Explicit: sponsus eius Christus Ihesus dominus noster qui cum patre in unitate spiritus sancti vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de compassione virginis Mariae (45r-55v)
Incipit: Sancte genitricis dei venerandam compassionem, fratres carissimi, festive recolentes
Explicit: [55r] cum eodem filio tuo domino nostro Ihesu Christo feliciter per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. [55v] >Sermones isti quatuor precedentes de veneranda compassione gloriosissime dei matris et virginis innituntur pro parte stilo patrum antiquorum eo respectu quia nonnulli doctorum stilum hunc renovare curant et collaudant etc.<
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermo de compassione gloriosissimae virginis Mariae (55v-59r)
Incipit: Mulier cum parit tristiciam habet, cum autem pepererit non meminit pressure propter gaudium, Johannis xvi. [Ioh. 16,21]. Verba hec fratres dilecti dicta sunt per similitudinem a redemptore nostro
Explicit: cum filio commeruit. Quod nobis omnibus matris sue meritis prestare dignetur idem filius suus dominus noster Ihesus Christus in eternum deus benedictus. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermones 3 de praesentatione virginis in templum (65r-71r)
Incipit: Sermo cum tribus immediate sequentibus de presentacione virginis gloriose in templum, innituntur mori antiquorum, sine allegationibus quotatis, parumque tangunt de historia, ne offendantur illi qui hanc putant non auctenticam. Verum historia est satis auctentica Fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis [cant. 2,5]. Rerum docet experientia pueros florum amenitate delectari
Explicit: ut dignum mayestati sue fieres habitaculum Ihesum Christum dominum nostrum qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat deus benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de praesentatione virginis (73r-76r)
Incipit: Transite ad me omnes qui concupiscitis me, et a generationibus meis implemini [eccli. 24,26]<. Venerandi patres dilectique confratres, verba hec non absurde possunt ita accipi
Explicit: digna inventa es, cum quo vivis et regnas quoque gloriosa omnium domina in omnia secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Materia de festo compassionis Mariae virginis (77r-83r)
Incipit: Maria mater et martir Christi martir martirum et regina martirum gloriosissima passa est multa
Explicit: cui se in hoc totaliter promptissime commisit etc. ut eam ad se assumeret quando placeret eidem
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de conceptione virginis Mariae (101r-104v)
Incipit: Orietur stella ex Iacob, Numeri xxiiiiº [num. 24,17]. In hiis verbis, patres karissimi, eciam ad litteram secundum doctores sumptis tangitur virginis beatissime nativitas. Que quidem duplex est
Explicit: cum omnibus sanctis participare mereamur. Qui vivit et regnat cum deo etc. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermo capitularis de conceptione virginis Mariae (105r-108v)
Incipit: Sapiencia edificavit sibi domum excidit columnas septem, proverbiorum ix.i [prov. 9,1]. Venerabiles et karissimi patres, si in verbis premissis per sapienciam voluerimus accipere filium dei
Explicit: in cunctis necessitatibus nostris senciamus. Qui vivit etc.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de conceptione virginis Mariae (109r-112v)
Incipit: Ave Maria gracia plena [Luc. 1,28]. Venerabiles patres et fratres carissimi, superfluum iudico recitare vestre caritati
Explicit: in futuro gloria illustrari mereamur qui vivis et regnas cum deo patre unitate spiritus sancti deus per omia secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de visitatione virginis Mariae (112v-117r)
Incipit: Magnificat anima mea dominum [Luc. 1,46]. Verba hec unde sumpta sint neminem vestrum latere arbitror. Sunt quippe
Explicit: meritis virginis eiusdem. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Alia collatio capitularis de visitatione virginis Mariae (117r-119r)
Incipit: Exultavit spiritus meus in deo salutari meo [Luc. 1,47]. Verba hec, patres karissimi, prout nostis omnes sunt illius benedictissime
Explicit: in quo spiritus Marie exultat. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de conceptione virginis Mariae (132r-134v)
Incipit: Tota pulchra es amica mea et macula non est in te, canticorum iiiiº [cant. 4,7]. Beatus Augustinus dicit: Firmissime tene, et nullatenus dubites, omnem hominem
Explicit: eximiissimus doctor theologie, et triumphum obtinuit, etc.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de assumptione gloriosae virginis Mariae (134v-137r)
Incipit: Domum maiestatis mee glorificabo, Ysaie lxº [Is. 60,7]. Pro impetranda gracia salutemus matrem gracie dicentes ave Maria, domum maiestatis mee etc. In quibus verbis innuitur incorrupcio virginei corporis
Explicit: perfectam genuit vitam Ihesum Christum dominum nostrum qui vivit etc.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis in sollemnitate nativitatis virginis Mariae (137r-138v)
Incipit: Orietur stella ex Iacob. Verba ista scripta sunt in libro numerorum capitulo xxiiii [num. 24,17]. Pro impetranda gracia salutamus matrem gratie cum sua angelica salutacione dicentes mente pia ave maxima. Orietur stella ex Iacob, ubi supra. Verbis istis quamvis brevibus et succinctis gloriosa et beata virgo Maria redditur nobis commendabilis
Explicit: filius eiusdem virginis qui vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: In annuntiatione beatae Mariae (138v-140v)
Incipit: Ave Maria gracia plena etc. Luce primo capitulo [Luc. 1,28]. Pro impetranda gracia salutemus matrem gracie, cum sua angelica salutacione, dicentes mente pia ave Maria etc. Ave Maria gracia plena etc., ubi supra. Hec est salutacio que omnes salutaciones excedit
Explicit: que non auferetur ab ea. Cuius partis et gracie nos participes faciat Ihesus Christus filius eius dominus noster qui est benedictus in secula. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio in festo visitationis virginis Mariae (140v-144r)
Incipit: Magnificat anima mea dominum et exultavit spiritus meus in deo salutari meo. Scribitur Luce primo capitulo [Luc. 1,46]. Et in evangelio hodierne festivitatis patres et fratres karissimi beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini
Explicit: in secula seculorum laudabunt te qui es cum patre et spiritu sancto in eterna secula benedictus. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: In festo visitationis virginis Mariae (144r-147v)
Incipit: Ingredere ingredere uxor Ieroboam. Sic scribitur in tertio libro regum capitulo xiiii [III reg. 14,6]. Ad impetrandam graciam offeramus virgini gloriose [144v] venerabiles ac dilectissimi patres ac confratres mei, ex annua librorum regalium recitacione
Explicit: quia regina est potentissima per filium eius dominum nostrum qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat deus in secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De eadem festivitate (147v-149v)
Incipit: Exultavit spiritus meus in deo salutari meo [Luc. 1,47]. Verba hec patres karissimi prout nostis omnes sunt illius benedictissime benedicte inter mulieres
Explicit: Quod singulis nobis ille tribuat in quo spiritus Marie exultat. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio in festo assumptionis virginis Mariae (149v-152v)
Incipit: Elevata est nubes de tabernaculo federis. Hic scribitur numerum x. capitulo [num. 10,11]. Excellentissimi patres mei, constat vestris venerandis paternitatibus quod tanta est virginis gloriosissime
Explicit: dedicator et inhabitator. Qui cum deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti vivit et regnat per infinita secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio de omnibus sanctis (152v-157v)
Incipit: Salutant vos omnes sancti, ii. ad Corinthio ultimo [II Cor. 13,12]. Venerandi patres fratresque predilectissimi, sanctus sanctorum omnium deus sabbaoth
Explicit: in clara visione dei per Ihesum Christum dominum nostrum in secula seculorum benedictum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: In sanctum Hugonem Lincolniensem (158r-159v)
Incipit: Domine quinque talenta tradidisti michi, Mathei xxv. [Matth. 25,22]. Pro impetranda gracia salutemus matrem gracie dicentes mente pia: Ave Maria. Venerabiles ac charissimi patres et fratres, hodie peragimus festum sancti patris
Explicit: et corroborans me quod et nobis prestare dignetur Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui est super omnia deus benedictus in secula. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis in festo sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis (159v-161v)
Incipit: Ecce vere Israhelita in quo dolus non est. Iohannis primo capitulo [Ioh. 1,47]. Pro gracia impetranda salutemus matrem gracie dicentes mente pia ave Maria. Ecce vere etc. ubi supra. In quibus verbis sanctus Hugo pater noster commendatur. Primo ut contemplator et discretor luminis divi in radiantis
Explicit: et charitatem cognicionis. Ad quam claritatem nos perducat Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat deus benedictus in secula. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis in festo sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis (163r-165r)
Incipit: Scitote quoniam mirificavit dominus sanctum suum. Scribitur in psalmo quarto [ps. 4,4]. Inter ceteras raciones, quas magister Wilhelmus in summa de divino officio ponit, tres precipuas assignat quare festivitates sanctorum peraguntur in terris. Prima est
Explicit: et virtutes illustrent per dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum viventem et regnantem in secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Collatio capitularis de sancto Hugone Lincolniensi (165r-166v)
Incipit: Sint lumbi vestri precincti et lucerne ardentes in manibus vestris. Luce xii. [Luc. 12,35]. Pro gracia impetranda salutemus matrem gracie etc. In verbis propositis tria principaliter possumus considerare pro beatissimi patris nostri Hugonis
Explicit: continetur et legitur. Que et nobis concedat Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui est deus benedictus in secula. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Sermo capitularis de sancto Hugone (166v-168r)
Incipit: Ecce sacerdos magnus. Ita scribitur Ecclesiastici originaliter capitulo xliiii. [eccli. 50,1]. Dicit beatus Gregorius unicuique nostrum ad sumendam vivendi regulam
Explicit: magnus coram deo erit. Quod nobis omnibus prestare dignetur Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Contra Teucros specialis letania (170r-173v)
Incipit: Kyrieleyson. Christeleyson. Kyrieleyson. Christe Ihesu deus et homo audi nos quos precioso sanguine redemisti
Explicit: Domine exaudi orationem meam et clamor meus ad te veniat. Benedicamus domino. Deo gratias. >Istam letaniam magne efficacie composuit venerabilis ac multum devotus pater dominus Heinricus Arnoldi prior Cartusiensium in Basilea. Contra Teucros pessimos Christiani nominis inimicos. Anno domini m. cccc. lxxvi. Oretur pro eo<
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Commendationes quaedam pro fratribus defunctis (174r-178v)
Incipit: Beati mortui qui in domino moriuntur. Verba ista sunt originaliter scripti Johannis apostolici et evangeliste in suo apocalypsi [apoc. 14,13] et sunt transumptive in epistula misse pro defunctis. Venerandi patres et dilecti confratres, ordini nostro morem quantulumcumque gerendo
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Heinrich, von Coesfeld (Author) | Leonardus, Nogarolus (Author) | Ströulin, Martin (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains prayers and meditations by various authors, but most of them written by, or at least attributed to, Anselm of Canterbury. In addition, there is an instruction in spiritual exercises for novices and a Passion of Christ compiled from all four Gospels by Heinrich Arnoldi. Texts by other Carthusian authors are also represented. The codex was written by Martin Ströulin, a Carthusian from Basel.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Passio domini una ex quattuor commixta (173r-193r)
Incipit: In illo tempore collegerunt pontifices et Pharisei concilium
Explicit: signantes lapidem cum custodibus. >Deo gracias<
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Rudgerus Cartusensis (Author) | Ströulin, Martin (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
15th century devotional volume, mostly written by the Carthusian Johannes Gipsmüller and owned by the Carthusian monastery of Basel. On the verso side of a parchment leaf, inserted as f. 57 into the paper manuscript, there is a full-page image of Christ on the cross with Mary and John. A peculiarity is a collection of Bible passages in Latin and sayings in German by Petrus Wolfer, which are said to have been written on a wall of the Carthusian monastery, surrounding a crucifixion.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Passio domini una ex quattuor cum excerptis patrum necnon suffragiis (12v-73r) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) | Wolfer, Peter (Author) Found in: Standard description
The first part of this paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains the Tractatus de modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam dei et proximi dilectionem by the Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1407-1487) and, in the second part, titled De humilitate, it contains a collection of his minor texts. Both text units are also found in manuscript A X 83, which was written the same year.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Henricus Arnoldi Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Tractatus de modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam dei et proximi dilectionem (2r-124v)
Incipit: Caritatis excellentia satis in divino commendatur eloquio et in sanctorum patrum doctorumque scriptis ut tibi deus caritas est
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Scripta de humilitate (126v-160r) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Exhortacio efficax de sancta humilitate (126v-132v)
Incipit: [126v] Nota beatus Gregorius in libro xviiiº moralium super illud Iob et omne preciosum vidit oculus eius scribit sciendum magnopere est quia tantum unaqueque anima fit preciosior ante oculos dei
Explicit: qui ab amore presentis seculi loquendo que potest humanam animam evellit. Hec ille. Nota bene.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Via monachi in celum (132v-133r)
Incipit: Timore dei omni hora se custodire a peccatis
Explicit: tanquam reus divino iudicio.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Via monachi ad infernum (133r-134r)
Incipit: [133v] Consuetudo peccandi que implicat contemptum dei
Explicit: que in nulla gravitate sensus interiores et exteriores coarcet.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Conditiones veri humilis (134r)
Incipit: Timorem dei semper habet pre oculis
Explicit: O deus quis est hic et laudabimus eum
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Humilitas vera cognoscitur (134r-v)
Incipit: [134v] Voluntatum propriarum mortificatio est signum primum
Explicit: sed gravitatem in moribus tenere.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Unde anima possessionem humilitatis acquirere possit (134v-135r)
Incipit: Inquisitus senex unde anima possessionem humilitatis acquire posset
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Mons sancte humilitatis cum suis vii gradibus (135r-137r)
Incipit: Beatus Anselmus Cantuariensis archiepiscopus vir devotissimus hunc montem sancte humilitatis in suo libro de similitudinibus descripsit
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Oratio devota pro humilitate (137r-v)
Incipit: Ihesu mitis et vere patientie forma et humilitatis exemplum repelle a me omnes fastus superbie
Explicit: plenam graciam inveniam in oculis tue maiestatis amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Oratio pro patientia (137v)
Incipit: Domine Ihesu Christe mitissime totius humilitatis et patientie magister da michi servorum tuorum ultimo et supplici ut me humilem
Explicit: Ut inter filios et electos tuos merear tua gracia numerari. Anen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Formula religiose vivendi tradita in modum orationia (137v-157v)
Incipit: [138r] Humilitatis perfecte preclarissimum speculum domine Ihesu Christe fili dei vivi filique humillime virginis Marie qui licet velut dominus virtutum
Explicit: a tua miseratione inexhausta desidero, requiro et peto, humillime domine Ihesu Christe qui Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Nucleus quasi humilitatis per modum orationis (157v-160r)
Incipit: Ave humillima ancilla domini virgo dulcissima Maria cuius humilitas tantum divine placuit maiestati ut cum angelo [158r] te gracia plenam
Explicit: quanta tibi et sibi in me placebit michique ad salutem sufficere poterit eternam. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The writings of Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1407-1487) in the first part of the manuscript (the collection De humilitate and the treatise De modo perveniendi) for the most part are the same as those contained in Cod. A X 69. The second part contains the Tractatus de reformatione virium animae by the Dutch theologian Gerardus de Zutphania (1367-1398). This manuscript was written in 1472 by Johannes Gipsmüller (1439-1484) at the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. There must have been a colored woodcut before fol. 1; color residue and a mirror-inverted imprint of the caption are still visible.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Scripta de humilitate (1r-27v) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Formula religiose vivendi tradita in modum orationis (1r-18r)
Incipit: Humilitatis perfecte preclarissimum speculum domine Ihesu Christe
Explicit: a tua miseratione inexhausta desidero, requiro et peto humillime domine Ihesu Christe qui Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Exhortatio efficax de sancta humilitate (18r-23v)
Incipit: Fratres carissimi humilitatem libenter amplecti debemus quam dominus noster Ihesus Christus verbis docuit
Explicit: ut discatis a domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui cum patre Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Via monachi in celum (23v-24r)
Incipit: 1. Timore dei omni hora se custodire a peccatis
Explicit: tamquam reus divino iudicio.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Via monachi ad infernum (24r)
Incipit: Consuetudo peccandi que implicat contemptum dei
Explicit: que in nulla gravitate sensus interiores et exteriores coartet.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Nucleus quasi humilitatis per modum orationis (24v-26v)
Incipit: Ave humillima ancilla domini virgo dulcissima Maria cuius humilitas tantum divine placuit maiestati
Explicit: michique ad salutem sufficere poterit eternam. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Conditiones veri humilis (27r)
Incipit: 1. Timorem dei semper habet pre oculis
Explicit: usque in finem inmobilis.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Humilitas vera cognoscitur (27r)
Incipit: Voluntatum propriarum mortificacio est signum 1(m)
Explicit: sed gravitatem in moribus tenere
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Unde anima possessionem humilitatis acquirere possit (27v)
Incipit: Inquisitus senex unde anima possessionem humilitatis acquirere posset
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Summa summarum humilitatis (27v) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Tractatus de modo perveniendi ad veram et perfectam dei et proximi dilectionem (29r-142v)
Incipit: Caritatis excellentia satis in divino commendatur eloquio et in sanctorum patrum doctorumque scriptis ut ibi deus caritas est
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Oratio pro caritate impetranda a domine Iesu (143r-148r)
Incipit: Amorosissime domine Ihesu Christe amator meus unice amicorum summe deus altissime qui me indignum
Explicit: [147v] et michi expedire videtur ad salutem. [148r] Qui vivis et regnas cum deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: Scripta de humilitate: orationes duae (148r-v)
Incipit: Ihesu mitis et vere patientie forma et humilitatis exemplum
Explicit: graciam inveniam in oculis tue maiestastis [sic]. Amen.
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- Gerardus, de Zutphania (Author) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript, comprising originally separate parts from the holdings of St. Leonhard Monastery in Basel, contains, among others, texts by Hugh of Saint Victor and Thomas à Kempis. Among the volume's shorter pieces are two German texts (“Fünf Mittel gegen die Ungeduld” and “Zwölf Zeichen der Minne”), as well as three small glossaries: one Hebrew-Latin, one Greek-Latin and one Latin-German. The intact thorn-clasp on the coeval binding is also noteworthy.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Concordantia quattuor evangelistarum de passione domini (244r-246r)
Incipit: Passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi textum seu hystoriam in unam quandam continuam consonantiam contrahere
Explicit: [273v] munierunt sepulcrum signantes lapidem cum custodibus
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Johannes, Burkardi (Scribe) | Johannes, Guallensis (Author) | Nider, Johannes (Author) | Otloh, de Sancto Emmeramo (Author) | Petrus, Aureoli (Author) | Petrus, de Braco (Author) | Richardus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Standard description
This 13th century manuscript with Peter Lombards' commentary on the Psalms, previously owned by Petrus Medicus, came to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel in the 15th century. The codex is organized in three columns, although the outermost column closest to the margin remains empty. The two columns of text are in turn again partly divided in half and give the biblical text in the left half and the commentary in the right half, in lines of half the height. Figure initials in delicate French style correspond to the division of the Psalter into eight liturgical sections. The blank area below the text contains nearly unreadable notes perhaps in pencil, which may be a further commentary.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Petrus, Lombardus (Author) Found in: Standard description
First part of a two-volume edition of Gregory's Moralia in Iob. From the Carthusian Monastery, purchased at the Council of Basel. The main part of the manuscript was written at the turn from the 11th to the 12th century; the Tabula found at the very beginning and very end of the volume was added in the 13th century. The earlier provenance of the manuscript is not clear, but an origin in common with the second volume (B I 13a) stands to reason.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Second part of a two-volume edition of Gregory's Moralia in Iob. This volume from the end of the 12th century, richly decorated with initials, was purchased at the Council of Basel for the Carthusian Monastery of Basel and was augmented at the monastery by the scribe Heinrich von Vullenhoe. The provenance of the volume is not certain. An erased note of ownership of the Monastery of S. Maria in Insula could refer to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Marienwerd in Goldern or to the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame de l'Ile-de-Ré near La Rochelle. The first volume (B I 12) probably has the same origin.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Vullenhoe, Heinrich von (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This Gospel Book, written in an accurate Carolingian book hand, was probably created in the Marmoutier abbey by Tours. It features richly decorated initials and artistically designed frames for the canon tables. The manuscript was a gift to the Carthusians of Basel from the former dean of Rheinfeld, Antonius Rüstmann, in 1439.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Brower, Adolf (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Rüstmann, Antonius (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the homilary of Paulus Diaconus for the winter season and was written and illustrated during the 9th and 10th centuries by various St. Gall copyists. It belonged to the Charter House at Basel, to which it was presented, like B IV 26, by Pierre de la Trilline, Bishop of Lodève near Montpellier (1430-1441), who served in various capacities at the Council of Basel.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pierre, de la Trilline (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pierre, de la Trilline (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
The Legenda aurea by the Dominican Jacobus de Voragine (about 1228-1298) is one of the most widely known spiritual collections of the Middle Ages. This 14th century manuscript from Bologna preserves it along with further legends of the saints. The codex is written in a regular Italian Gothic script and, as a matter of routine, is carefully decorated; a large lacuna in chapter 45 (legend of St. Michael) was augmented by a 15th century hand. The volume belongs to the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
The greatest part of this manuscript consists of two texts by Rudolf von Biberach – Sermones super cantica and De VII itineribus aeternitatis. They were originally created in the 14th century as two separate pieces; later they were bound together into the current volume at the Carthusian monastery of Basel, whose library owned the manuscript from the 15th century on. Still in the 14th century, a German translation of De VII gradibus contemplationis was added as a supplement to the second part. Probably only at the time of binding the manuscript was the beginning of the Abstractum-Glossars added as a last page, bound in upside down; the transcription of this text also dates from the 14th century and therefore could not have been produced at the monastery.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Rudolfus, de Biberaco (Author) Found in: Standard description
This Interpretatio evangeliorum, attributed to an Epiphanius Latinus, is a compilation of excerpts from the commentary on the gospels by Fortunatianus of Aquileia and from a collection of sermons by an Italian author from the period of late antiquity (whose name may have been Epihanius); it was compiled between the 7th and the 8th century. This manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains only the homiletic part (without introduction) in chapters 18-62).
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Epiphanius, Beneventanus (Author) | Fortunatianus, Aquileiensis (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery of Basel, whose shelfmark was changed several times, consists of three originally independent parts. The first, homiletic, part contains a series of Sermones and interpretive Expositiones on the Gospel readings of the day. The second part consists of a treatise on the ten commandments by the Augustinian Hermit Heinrich von Friemar (1245-1340) and an anonymous commentary on the Latin version of the Physiologus Theobaldi. In the third part of the manuscript, in addition to instructions for leading a God-pleasing life, there is a dispute between angel and devil about the seven deadly sins.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Kamenschede, Gottschalk (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Origenes (Author) | Pfister, Conrad (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from the lay library of (the Carthusian Monastery of) Basel transmits two texts from the Teutonic Order: the legend in rhyme “Martina” by Hugo von Langenstein, as well as the “Littauer” by Schondoch. The “Martina” survives only in this manuscript and is considered the oldest sacred poetry of the Teutonic Order. As a third text, the codex contains the “Mainauer Naturlehre.”
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Huber, Daniel (Librarian) | Hugo, von Langenstein (Author) | Konrad von St. Gallen (Scribe) | Lassberg, Joseph von (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Schondoch (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which has been decoratively sewn with silk thread in many places, was donated to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel in the 15th century by Johannes Obrest, chaplain of St. Martin in Basel. It contains, in addition to several short texts of pastoral and medical character, the Summa poenitentialis by the English theologian and subdean of Salisbury, Thomas of Chabham (ca. 1160-1233/36).
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gualterus, Agulinus (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Obrest, Johannes (Former possessor) | Thomas, de Chabham (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format parchment volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is composed of three originally separate fascicles. The first is decorated with three initials (1r, 53r, 58r) and contains the Stimulus dilectionis by Eckbert of Schönau along with prayers, Penitential Psalms and a Litany of the Saints. This is followed by the fragment of a prayer book, which is missing the beginning as well as the end. The third part contains a compilation from Bonaventure's Soliloquium and Hugh of St. Victor's De vanitate mundi. The heavy soiling of pp. 24-53 (Agenda defunctorum and Penitential Psalms) should be noted; it indicates intensive use of this part of the codex.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Fiscannensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Urban V., Papst (Author) | Vullenhoe, Heinrich von (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript is from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains the first part of the Orationes et meditationes de vita Christi by the mystic Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471), one of the most important representatives of the Devotio moderna. The script and decoration of the fascicle indicate a Dutch school. A central printed part is followed by a collection of supplications and prayers in Latin.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Amerbach, Johannes (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Loy, Johannes (Scribe) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) 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
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- 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 small-format manuscript in Latin is from the Carthusian monastery of Basel; in particular, it treats the Passion of Christ. The devotional image on the front pastedown takes up this topic, as do the texts, which are by, among others, Ludolph of Saxony, Bonaventure and Eckbert of Schönau. The manuscript's first text, a long devotional text De vita et passione Iesu Christi, may have been written by Heinrich Arnoldi, Carthusian of Basel.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Meditationes de vita et passione Iesu Christi (1r-110r)
Incipit: Ihesu bone, Ihesu pie, dulcissime domine, singularissime amice cum deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti, deus meus, creator meus, redemptor meus et salvator meus, qui propter nimiam tuam bonitatem et summam caritatem ac ineffabilem misericordiam
Explicit: desiderans ut omnes sancti tui pariter mecum. Tibi perpetuas referant graciarum actiones. Amen.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This small-format parchment manuscript is known as the “Basler Liederhandschrift”; it transmits German and Latin texts in verse and prose, which are primarily spiritual in character and in part are supplemented with musical notation. Among them are texts by Konrad of Würzburg and Walther von der Vogelweide, among others. This manuscript was written around 1300; in the 15th century it was in the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, and in the 17th century it was the property of Remigius Fäsch, a collector from Basel.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Boppe (Author) | Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Konrad, von Würzburg (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Walther, von der Vogelweide (Author) | Wipo, Presbyter (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format parchment manuscript is from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, where it was completed in 1478 by the scribe Johannes Gipsmüller. The numerous devotional texts on various female saints have mostly been passed down anonymously; some – such as those on Margareta, the patron saint of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel – can probably be attributed to Heinrich Arnoldi. The codex is decorated with full-page illustrations of saints treated in the text as well as numerous initials, the latter in a variety of styles.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Margarita (19r-37r)
Incipit: Ave. Salve. Gaude. Mille millesies et in infinitum pluries
Explicit: per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Catharina Alexandrina (38r-64r)
Incipit: Ne quis forte putet ea que hic de ortu et conversione beate Katherine narrantur fore ficticia sciendum quod
Explicit: securum ascensum per dominum. >Ad honorem tuum o Katherina beatissima pro meis peccatis dominum interpella<.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Barbara (65r-71v)
Incipit: Salutant te cordis mei intima
Explicit: adherere tibi iugiter valeamus. Per.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Gertrudi (89r-99r)
Explicit: Exaudi nos deus salutaris noster ut sicut de beate Ghertrudis festivitate gaudemus ita pie devocionis erudiamur affectu.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Brigitta (122r-149r)
Incipit: Hec de beatissima Brigitta que sequitur oratio seu meditacio
Explicit: cum eodem patre in unitate eiusdem sancti spiritus etc. Amen.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Catharina Senensi (179r-204r)
Incipit: Salutat cor tuum affectuosissimum utinam digne servorum tuorum infimus virgo sanctissima Katherina preelecta domini Ihesu sponsa
Explicit: erudiamur affectum. Per dominum.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Agatha (209r-211v)
Incipit: Gaude Agatha beatissima virgo et martir inclita
Explicit: tam multis honorasti meritorum insigniis. Qui vivis et regnas cum deo etc.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Maria Magdalena (224r-235v)
Incipit: [224v leer; 225r] >De beatissima sancta Maria Magdalena prohemium ad illa scripta [sic]<. Quicumque voluerit faciliter et veraciter a domino peccatorum suorum impetrare veniam vite emendacionem devocionis graciam
Explicit: in gracia consumatos ad finem beatum promoveat. Per.
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- Adamus, Easton (Author) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Hermann Joseph, von Steinfeld, Heiliger (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains prayers to and about the saints and martyrs Margaret of Antioch, Barbara of Nicomedia and Catherine of Alexandria. The Meditationes were composed by the Carthusian Henricus Arnoldi of Basel; the small-format manuscript was written by his fellow monk Johannes Gipsmüller.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi: Meditationes tres de sanctis virginibus / Henricus Arnoldi de Alveldia (?) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Margarita (4r-37v)
Incipit: Ave salve gaude millesies
Explicit: populi Christiani felix incrementum. Amen
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Barbara (38r-50r)
Incipit: Salutant te cordis mei intima o sancta domina Barbara
Explicit: Deus qui sanctissimam virginem Barbaram roseo martirii cruore perfusam in thalomo regni tui collocasti, concede propicius ut per eam nostrorum apud te peccatorum veniam consequi mereamur. P.
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- Heinrich Arnoldi: De Catharina Alexandrina (52r-101r)
Incipit: Ave gemma claritatis
Explicit: securum ascensum. Per dominum nostrum.
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- Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, written by several Northern Italian hands, contains the Lectura super codicem by the legal scholar Guilelmus de Cugno or Cuneo, who gave lectures in Toulouse in 1316-1317. The original must have been divided into quires, at least there are annotations in the manuscript that are similar to those of the pecia system. In 1383, this volume was owned by a converted Jew in Trier; later it became part of the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
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- Arsendi, Argentino (Author) | Bauer, Albert (Restorer) | Guilelmus, de Cugno (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This 14th century parchment manuscript contains the commentaries of the legal expert and canonist Johannes Andreae (around 1270-1348) on the Liber Sextus Decretalium Bonifacii, the third part of the Corpus iuris canonici. The volume came into the possession of the Carthusian monastery of Basel during the Council (1431-1449).
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
For efficiency, writings of law and canon law were often copied using the pecia system, where a model was divided into quires and distributed to several copyists. In the same manner, this commentary on the decretals by ”Abbas antiquus“, only later identified as Bernardus de Montemirato, was created in three pieces. The sparingly decorated manuscript is written in a littera bononiensis and was owned by the library of the Carthusian monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Bernardus, de Montemirato (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
From 1470 until 1475, Jakob Lauber, later the head of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel and its richly endowed library, attended lectures by the famous decretist Peter Andlau at the newly founded University of Basel; this is attested by his lecture notes on the Conclusiones Clementinarum and the Liber sextus of Boniface VIII from the year 1471.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Scribe) | Petrus, De Andelo (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, a composite manuscript of legal content, has as its main text the Summa super rubricis decretalium by the Italian legal scholar Godefridus de Trano (deceased 1245). This is a textbook on the Compilation of Decretals commissioned by Pope Gregory IX, which was widely distributed. The text is decorated with five small figure initials, probably of French origin.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Arnulfus, Magister (Author) | Bartholomaeus, Brixiensis (Scribe) | Damasus, Hungarus (Author) | Godefridus, de Trano (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The core of this manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is a copy of the Flores temporum, a Latin world chronicle from the 13th century that was widely used in Alemannic areas. The copyist, Nicolaus Gerung de Blauenstein, supplemented this chronicle with a self-written, partly German appendix on events from the region around Basel as well as a chronicle of the Basel bishops. Shorter texts such as treatises on councils or on the Carthusian order and lists of emperors, cathedrals, kingdoms and languages in various parts of the world round off the collection.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Heinrich Arnoldi: De sanctis ordinis Cartusiensis (178r-179r)
Incipit: Si ponatur differentia inter sanctus et beatus non dubium quin multos habeat ordo Cartusiensium beatos quos tamen nec ipsi Cartusienses nec alii ut sanctos venerantur. Ex quo ab ecclesia non sunt sollemniter in communi sanctorum canone conscripti
Explicit: quod numerus narrando nimis excederet in immensum etc.
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- Benevenutus, Imolensis (Author) | Gerung, Nicolaus (Author) | Gerung, Nicolaus (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Iselin, Jakob Christoph (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This Eusebius manuscript is from the 14th century and was already part of the holdings of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel under Heinrich Arnoldi (prior between 1449 and 1480). The manuscript is made of high quality calfskin vellum; it is carefully written and rubricated, in part with pen-flourish initials. The manuscript contains various 14th and 15th century additions; the binding is from the 19th century.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript with content regarding astronomy, bound in crimson sheepskin, was owned by Heinrich Amici († 1451), city physician of Basel, who bequeathed it to the city's Carthusian monastery. In addition to calculations of planetary conjunctions and eclipses, the volume also contains astronomical treatises by Pierre d'Ailly or Petrus de Alliaco (around 1350-1420). D'Ailly was a scholar and church politician and infused his theological works with astrological justifications.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Amici, Henricus (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, de Wara (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Magister Romanus (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Venantius de Moerbeka (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript comes from the library of the Carthusian monastery of Basel and contains school texts on the ancient comic poet Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) (ca. 195 - ca. 159 B.C.), such as Comoediae cum didascaliis, as well as various Rhetoricae, or teachings on the art of speech making and letter writing. The first part of the manuscript was written by the later Prior Jacob Lauber while he was still a student in 1471 and 1472.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Alpoleius, Jacobus, de Urbisaglia (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Gasparinus, Barzizius (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Henricus, Francigena (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Scribe) | Louber, Jakob (Commentator) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Luder, Petrus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Theophrastus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume contains the so-called Wörterbuch des alten Schulmeisters (old schoolmaster's dictionary). This is an independent adaptation of the more widely used Vocabularius ex quo. In contrast to the more original version, in the old schoolmaster's edition the German explanations take a back seat to the purely Latin ones. The original pastedowns, which were detached from the cover during a restoration in 1974, also contain excerpts from a Latin translation of Aristotle's De anima and other pieces of related content. The fact that the text on the rear pastedown directly continues the text from the front pastedown shows that, in their original context, the pastedowns must have been two successive pages of one manuscript.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Alfredus, Sereshalensis (Author) | Alter Schulmeister (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Hermes, Trismegistus (Author) | Iohannes, Hispanus (Translator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Qusta Ibn-Luqa (Author) Found in: Standard description
Pierre d'Ailly (Latin: Petrus de Alliaco) was a scholar, church politician and productive writer. His geographic work Imago mundi became famous; Christopher Columbus used it in order to plan his voyages of discovery. This Basel exemplar belonged to the city physician of Basel, Heinrich Amici († 1451), who bequeathed it to his city's Carthusian monastery.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Amici, Henricus (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Penliuard, J. de (Scribe) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume contains texts that are related to late medieval, early humanistic school practice; i.e. on the one hand, works intended for school practice (grammars, word lists) and on the other hand, theoretical treatises of didactic-pedagogical content. This volume, bound at the Carthusian monastery of Basel, brings together several originally independent parts. The first part, the prose version of Alexander of Villedieu's versified grammar, is from the Carthusian monastery of Mainz and was donated to the Carthusian monastery of Basel. The last part, the grammar of Giovanni Sulpizio, here in a version printed by Johannes Amerbach, came to the monastery library as a gift from the printer.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Amerbach, Johannes (Former possessor) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caspar, vicarius in Ahrensbök prope Lubecam O.Cart (Author) | Giovanni Sulpizio, da Veroli (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Martinus, Aragonensis (Author) | Moser, Ludwig (Scribe) | Ströulin, Martin (Author) | Ströulin, Martin (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains exercises and Quaestiones on Aristotle's works De anima and De physica by the reform theologian Johann von Wesel (1425-1481). This volume is from the Carthusian monastery of Basel; based on a comparative study of the script, it can be assumed that the scribe of the first part is Jakob Louber. Numerous annotations in the margins and on slips of paper attest that the manuscript was heavily used.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
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- Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Johannes, Rucherath von Wesel (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Scribe) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript of philosophical content, owned by Jakob Lauber and even partially written by him. Jakob Lauber from Lindau studied at the then newly founded University of Basel from 1466 until 1475, first in the Faculty of Arts, then canon law in the Faculty of Law. After serving as rector for a short period, he entered the Carthusian Monastery of Basel in 1477; as its prior from 1480 on, he expanded it significantly and reorganized its library. When he entered the monastery, Lauber's library became the property of the monastery.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Anonymus (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Euclides (Author) | Gerardus, Cremonensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Scribe) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Petrus, Dresdensis (Author) | Siber, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
Missal following the liturgical custom of the Diocese of Basel, datable to around 1300. In the 15th century, a part containing the Ordo Missae was added, preceded by a Crucifixion miniature. The binding was restored in 1992 and replaces the unpreserved original binding.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) Found in: Standard description