Manuscript Summary:This codex contains the Benedictine Rule. A German translation follows each Latin chapter. The different sections are to varying degrees distinguished from each other through simply decorated initials in red ink, and the Latin text appears in a slightly thicker script. According to a Latin (1r) and a German (72r) dedicatory verse, the manuscript was produced under Abbot Walther (Walther I. of Iberg, 1250-1267, or Walther II. of Cham, 1267-1276).(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. 100.
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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. 251, S. 92-3.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 72
Parchment · 72 ff. · 24.5 x 16.2 cm · Engelberg · 1250-1276
Benedictus s. abbas. Regula lat. germanica
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 72, f. 1r – Benedictus s. abbas. Regula lat. germanica (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0072)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 100.
Manuscript title: Benedictus s. abbas, Regula lat. germanica
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XIII.
Extent:
Foliorum 72
Format: 245 : 162 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration:
Hi versus, tituli et litterae initiales in exordio capitum necnon multae maiores in textu rubri sunt coloris; prima littera (A) ambitiosus delineata exstat et ornata figuris, quibus repraesentantur Waltherus abbas, Monachus Chouno et Gvota magistra.
Contents:
Benedictus s. abbas. Regula lat. germanica. >In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi incipit prologus regulae patris eximii beatissimi Benedicti.<Ausculta, o fili, praecepta magistri …–…
ſo chvnſt denne mit gottiſ hilfe zi der hohi dir tvgindon. Amen.
Edidit
Troxler. Die Regel des hl. Benedict. Geschfr. 39. I sqq. Engelberg, pag. 94 sqq.
Origin of the manuscript:
sub abbate Engelbergensi Walthero II. de Chamo (1267-1276), quod indicatur his versibus fol. 1:
Abbas Waltherus hoc fecit nempe volumen.
Quo circa petimus capiat coeleste cacumen.
Sit diz bvoch in ſelchir ſrift.
In bvocſhvn […] vn in tvſchvn iſt.
Nah monſlichir chvnſt geſcribin.
Warm were den hindir ſtelle blibin.
Ein grvoz dim ortfrvm mere.
Dim apt Walthere.
Dem wunſche der leſere heilſ.
Vñ himilſlichiſ teilſ.
Daz ſelbe tvot der verſin schin.
Die da obnan ſtant in Latin.