Robertus, Helveticus (floruit 1491)
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
This collection of hagiographical texts was written by various hands in the second third of the 13th century, probably in Hauterive. The presence of certain texts indicates a Cistercian origin (Vita of St. Robert of Molesme, the author Geoffroy de Hautecombe) and, based on our knowledge of medieval Hauterive, a regional origin (the Vita of St. Theodore, Bishop of Sion; the Vita and the Miracula of Saint Nicholas of Myra; the Vita of St. Elizabeth of Hungary; the Passio of Saint Maurice and his companions by Eucherius of Lyon). The end of the book contains a collection of texts related to confession. The last one of these attests a little know activity of the monks: the pastoral care of the Cistercian nuns. The manuscript remains in its original cover which, although damaged, is still well recognizable: a cover with wide flaps that cover the edges of the book.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Robertus, Helveticus: Vita s. Theodori episcopi Sedunensis (F. 1ra-7rb) Found in: Standard description
- Bertoni, Giulio (Annotator) | Cono abbas Morimundi (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Godefridus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Gremaud, Jean (Librarian) | Johannes, Diaconus Neapolitanus (Author) | Leontius, Neapolitanus (Author) | Martin, von Tours (Author) | Robertus, de Sorbona (Author) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) | Sulpicius, Severus (Author) Found in: Standard description
A school manuscript from the Abbey of St. Gall containing texts for the subjects of dialectic and rhetoric. The manuscript provides copies of the commentaries of Boethius on the Categories and on the Hermeneutics of Aristotle, a selection of the rhetorical tract by Alcuin († 804) with many schematic diagrams, and copies of Cicero's works De inventione and De optimo genere oratorum. The texts were copied around the end of the 9th century and during the 10th century and contain a multitude of Latin and Old High German glosses as well as numerous glosses in dry point from the 10th through 12th centuries.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional 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