Augustinus, Dati (1420-1478)
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
- Augustinus, Dati: Elegantiolae (187r-196r)
Incipit: Credimus iam dudum a plerisque viris
Explicit: ad exercitationem accomoda. Vale etc.
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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
The extensively glossed Rhetorica ad Herennium in the front part of this composite manuscript was copied by Johannes Heynlin, who also brought this book with him to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. The text from the 1st century BC represents the oldest surviving theory of rhetoric in Latin; it was very popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as attested by a vast tradition of more than 100 manuscripts as well as translations into numerous European languages. The volume transmits principles of rhetoric that have remained valid until to this day.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Augustinus, Dati: Elegantiolae Augustinus Datus (1r-44v) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This volume, S 56, from the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son Georg (ca. 1450-1529) in five parts brings together various Latin texts, classical texts as well as works by Italian humanists; the first two parts are printed (with initials in red and green), the latter three are handwritten. The first part, printed around 1472 by Michael Wenssler and Friedrich Biel in Basel (GW 3676), contains the Epistolae by the humanist and professor of rhetoric Gasparino Barzizza from Bergamo (ca. 1360-1431). This is followed by The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, also from the workshop of Michael Wenssler in Basel from about 1473-1474 (GW 4514). Next is the first handwritten text (incomplete, with marginal and interlinear glosses), Jesuida seu De passione Christi by the humanist and physician Girolamo della Valle from Padua († ca. 1458 or 1494). This work, written in hexameter and dedicated to Pietro Donato, Bishop of Padua from 1428 until 1447, was most likely copied from the edition of about 1474 that was printed by Michael Wenssler in Basel (GW M49385) and that also served as model for the lay-out. The fourth part contains the Catiline conspiracy by Sallust. At the end of the volume, the fifth part is made up of three works by two authors (with marginal and interlinear glosses; initials in red and green); due to a bookbinder's error, the order of the quires is mixed up. This fifth part contains the Elegantiolae (the order for reading would be: ff. 1r-10v, 27r-38v, 11r-20r) by the humanist and professor of rhetoric Agostino Dati from Siena (*1420 or 1428, †1478), as well as two treatises by Gasparino Barzizza, which are already included in the printed part, the Praeceptorum summula (ff. 20r-21v) and the Modus orandi (ff. 21v-26v, 39r-43r). The three handwritten parts of the volume were produced by different hands, among them that of the anonymous scribe of Georg Supersaxo. S 56 therefore is comparable to the other manuscripts (S 51, S 101, S 105) that were made for Georg Supersaxo at the time when the young man studied law in Basel (around 1472-1474). Among the annotations on the flyleaves one can recognize a note of ownership by his father Walter Supersaxon, Bishop of Sion (f. N2r).
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Gasparinus, Barzizius (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Supersaxo, Georg (Patron) | Supersaxo, Walter (Former possessor)
The eighteenth- or nineteenth-century cardboard binding contains four roughly contemporary manuscript parts from the second half of the fifteenth century. Parts I and III are written in the same hand and transmit instructions and examples for the correct composition of Latin letters and charters and for the use of rhetorical figures. Part II contains a textbook of procedural law by Johannes Urbach; Part IV is a collection of Latin letters composed in the years 1465–1480 and addressed to the Einsiedeln monk and early humanist Albrecht von Bonstetten.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Augustinus, Dati: Elegantiolae, gefolgt von (anonymen) lateinischen Worterklärungen und Kurzregeln (Ars dictandi: Regeln für die Abfassung von Briefen mit eingestreuten Beispielsätzen) (125-170) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Dati: Elegantiolae. (125-169)
Incipit: Credimus iam dudum a plerisque viris etiam disertissimis persuasum demum artem quempiam
Explicit: in dies assequere ad exercitationem accomoda.
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- Achaz, Mornauer (Author) | Albert Cavallazzo della Bancha (Author) | Antonius Laudensis (Author) | Arnold Truchsess von Wolhusen (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Bartholomäus von Welden (Author) | Bodman, Familie (Author) | Brisacher, Marquard (Author) | Christan, Michael (Author) | Frickart, Thüring (Author) | Galeazzo Maria, Milano, Duca (Author) | Georg Richli (Author) | Georg, Baden, Markgraf (Author) | Giovanni, Republik Venedig, Doge (Author) | Heinrich von Ampringen (Author) | Heinrich von Epinal (Author) | Jakob Rink (Author) | Jakob Waldenburg (Author) | Johann Dominicus de Beccaria (Author) | Johann von Talheim (Author) | Johannes Hux (Author) | Johannes II., von Werdenberg (Author) | Johannes Langfeld (Author) | Johannes von Watt (Author) | Johannes, Urbach (Author) | Luder, Petrus (Author) | Ludwig, von Freiberg (Author) | Marquart, von Stein (Author) | Menger, Konrad (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Neufchâtel, Charles de (Author) | Nithart, Heinrich (Author) | Petrus Siculus (Author) | Philelphus, Franciscus (Author) | Polraus, Johann (Author) | Rad, Ludwig (Author) | Rammung, Matthias von (Author) | Rochefort, Guy de (Author) | Sforza, Ascanio Maria (Author) | Sforza, Filippo Maria (Author) | Ulrich Juvalt (Author) | Urdemann, Heinrich (Author) | Weißenburg, Martin von (Author) | Wyle, Niklas von (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Achaz, Mornauer (Author) | Albert Cavallazzo della Bancha (Author) | Antonius Laudensis (Author) | Arnold Truchsess von Wolhusen (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Bartholomäus von Welden (Author) | Bodman, Familie (Author) | Brisacher, Marquard (Author) | Christan, Michael (Author) | Frickart, Thüring (Author) | Galeazzo Maria, Milano, Duca (Author) | Georg Richli (Author) | Georg, Baden, Markgraf (Author) | Giovanni, Republik Venedig, Doge (Author) | Heinrich von Ampringen (Author) | Heinrich von Epinal (Author) | Jakob Rink (Author) | Jakob Waldenburg (Author) | Johann Dominicus de Beccaria (Author) | Johann von Talheim (Author) | Johannes Hux (Author) | Johannes II., von Werdenberg (Author) | Johannes Langfeld (Author) | Johannes von Watt (Author) | Johannes, Urbach (Author) | Luder, Petrus (Author) | Ludwig, von Freiberg (Author) | Marquart, von Stein (Author) | Menger, Konrad (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Neufchâtel, Charles de (Author) | Nithart, Heinrich (Author) | Petrus Siculus (Author) | Philelphus, Franciscus (Author) | Polraus, Johann (Author) | Rad, Ludwig (Author) | Rammung, Matthias von (Author) | Rochefort, Guy de (Author) | Sforza, Ascanio Maria (Author) | Sforza, Filippo Maria (Author) | Ulrich Juvalt (Author) | Urdemann, Heinrich (Author) | Weißenburg, Martin von (Author) | Wyle, Niklas von (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, written in 1499 under the schoolmaster Cunradus Reuschman of Lindau (note on p. 488), contains predominantly works by ancient writers, as well as several works by 15th century Italian authors. All texts have commentaries, and the more important works are generally preceded by an argumentum. Often there are several pages left blank between the texts. In the margins, there are several simple pen sketches (pp. 498–501, 504, 511, 513; on p. 706 and 712 sketches of maps of the world). P. 3 contains a full-page pen sketch of the city of Troy. The individual texts are: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias latina (pp. 5–51); Virgil, Georgica (pp. 57–146); Horace, Epistolae (pp. 148–230); Horace, Carmen saeculare (pp. 231–234); Lactantius, De ave Phoenice (pp. 234–241); Persius, Satires (pp. 245–282); Margarita passionis, inc. Cum prope pasca foret (pp. 283–288); Seneca, De providentia (pp. 289–298); Augustinus Datus, Elegantiolae (pp. 323–361); Carmen de dolo et astutia cuiusdam mulieris, inc. Summe procus caveat ducatur ne mala coniunx (pp. 362–365); hymns (pp. 366–388); Parvulus philosophiae moralis (pp. 395–417); Dominicus Mancinus, De quattuor virtutibus (pp. 419–488); Hieronimus de Vallibus, Jesuida (pp. 491–514); Matthaeus Bossus, Oratio in beata coena domini (pp. 515–524); Ps.-Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Comoedia Poliscena (pp. 539–549); Terence, Andria (pp. 563–621); Virgil, Bucolica (pp. 629–660); Horace, Ars poetica (pp. 661–678); Horace, Epodes (pp. 679–692); Ps.-Virgil, Moretum (pp. 692–694); Ps.-Ovid, Remedia amoris, inc. Qui fuerit cupiens ab amica solvere colla (pp. 694–695); Ps.-Ovid, De arte amandi, inc. Si quem forte iuvat subdi sapienter amori (pp. 695–698); a treatise on punctuation, De kanone punctorum (pp. 699); Virgil, Aeneis, lib. 1 and 3 (pp. 701–726 and 741–760); Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (pp. 765–802); Sallust, De bello Iugurthino, incomplete (pp. 803–804); Seneca, Epistolae morales (pp. 812–853).
Online Since: 10/04/2018
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- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Dati: Isagogicus libero Found in: Additional description
- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description