Manuscript Summary:This manuscript contains Jerome’s exposition of the twelve prophetic books. Each prophet is colorfully depicted in a historiated initial at the beginning of his book. The name of the prophet under discussion appears in red ink in the top margin of every other two-page spread. Small, colourful decorated initials sometimes introduce new paragraphs in the prologues. Except for the prologues, the pages are laid out in three columns: the middle column contains the biblical text, the left and right columns provide, in a smaller script, the exposition. A two-line verse dedication on 1r ascribes the codex to the library of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).(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. 102.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 123-124.
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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. 253, S. 93.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 76
Parchment · 124 ff. · 27.4 x 18.8 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Expositio S. Hieronymi duodecim prophetarum
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 76, f. 122v – Expositio S. Hieronymi duodecim prophetarum (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0076)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 102.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 3/24.
Extent:
Foliorum 124
Format: 274 : 188 mm.
Page layout:
ternis columnis
Decoration: Prologi et argumenta ornantur initialibus litteris tum rubri tum caerulei tum viridis coloris; initia singulorum librorum eximia venustate, adhibitis variis coloribus decorata sunt figuris quibus XII minorum prophetarum suo quisque ordine repraesentatur. Caeterum codex parce rubricatus est.
Contents:
Liber duodecim prophetarum cum glossâ ordinariâ et interlineari nec non variis prologis et argumentis
Provenance of the manuscript: sub b. Frowino abbate, testibus his versiculis leoninis in fronte codicis:
Non rodant mures, non ausint tollere fures
Librum, qui domino datus est a patre Frŏino.
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