Manuscript Summary:This manuscript contains the 15 books of St. Augustine's On the Trinity. On 1v, under the Capitula a pen-drawing depicts Augustine with his three adversaries. The codex has been decorated in a particularly artistic manner by the so-called Engelberg Master. A large initial with figurative motifs in red-brown and blank ink begins each book; in the text that follows, intermediate initials are smaller, monochromatically red, and richly ornamented. In verse on 1r, the copyist describes in detail the circumstances of the production of the volume: it was begun under Abbot Berchtold of Engelberg (1178-1197), who died shortly after the copying was underway; his successor Heinrich (1197-1223) supervised the completion of the work.(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. 29-30.
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Additional description: Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 97.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 111-112.
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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. 229, S. 85.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 14
Parchment · 187 ff. · 38.5 x 24.2 cm · Engelberg · 1178-1223
Augustinus S. Aurelius. De Trinitate libri quindecim, praemissa epistola ad Aurelium
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 14, Front cover – Augustinus S. Aurelius. De Trinitate libri quindecim, praemissa epistola ad Aurelium (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0014)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 29-30.
Manuscript title: Augustinus S. Aurelius. De Trinitate libri quindecim, praemissa epistola ad Aurelium.
Date of origin: Exaratus saeculo XII. exeunte.
Former shelfmark:
Olim signatus 1/11.
Extent:
Foliorum 187.
Format: 385 : 242 mm.
Page layout:
Lineis plenis exaratus.
Decoration: Litterae initiales partim minio tinctae omni ornatu carent, partim voluta et folia repraesentantes monstruosis hominum atque animalium figuris intermixtis suffusco colore confectae audaci manu insignique arte sunt delineatae.
Cfr. Rahn, Geschichte der bildenden Künste in der Schweiz. Zürich 1876. Pag. 309 sqq.
Contents:
Augustinus S. Aurelius: De Trinitate libri quindecim, praemissa epistola ad Aurelium.
P. L. 42, 817-1098.
Singulos libros praecedunt capitula.
Folio 1'. conspicitur imago s. Doctoris tres adversarios confundentis his versibus illustrata: Malleus erroris, divini rore saporis Augustinus hic ebrius indeque sobrius huius. Hi metuunt vultum, quia scit confundere multum, Reges perfidiae convincens ore sophyae.
Origin of the manuscript:
Exaratus saeculo XII. exeunte sub b. Berchtoldo (1178-1197) et Henrico I. (1197-1223) abbatibus monasterii Engelbergensis. Aetatem codicis indicant versus sequentes fol. 1:
Abbas dum fulsit Berhtolt me scribere jussit, Unde deus trinus vere quoque noscitur unus. Sed mox hic dignus, castus pater atque benignus Carnis onus posuit, praesentia scriptaque linquit Imperfecta. Sibi successit munere Christi Dictus Heinricus; bonus hic retinereque dignus Abbatis nomen perfecit et ipse volumen. Ergo dei pia mamma, tui quae filia nati, Tu genitusque tuus dignare voluminis huius Munus blanda datum bona mitis suscipe gratum.
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