Innocentius III, Papa (1160-1216)
This small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have been intensely used, as suggested by soiling and signs of heavy usage. The original red leather binding is covered with another layer of leather that sticks out beyond the covers at the bottom and can be folded over the lower edge as protection. The manuscript contains prayers, hymns and other devotional texts by numerous different authors — primarily saints and popes — such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Bernard of Clairvaux. Also represented are Carthusian authors such as Heinrich Arnoldi. Several colored woodcut and metalcut prints have been glued onto leaf 4v and 316v.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Innocentius III, Papa: Oratio (237r-238r)
Incipit: Ave nobilissima creatura et beatissima mater Maria
Explicit: Ihesus Christus filius tuus deus noster qui est super omnia benedictus in secula amen.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Bonifatius IX., Papst (Author) | Coelestinus V., Papa (Author) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Thomas, Becket (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format parchment volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is composed of three originally separate fascicles. The first is decorated with three initials (1r, 53r, 58r) and contains the Stimulus dilectionis by Eckbert of Schönau along with prayers, Penitential Psalms and a Litany of the Saints. This is followed by the fragment of a prayer book, which is missing the beginning as well as the end. The third part contains a compilation from Bonaventure's Soliloquium and Hugh of St. Victor's De vanitate mundi. The heavy soiling of pp. 24-53 (Agenda defunctorum and Penitential Psalms) should be noted; it indicates intensive use of this part of the codex.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Fiscannensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Urban V., Papst (Author) | Vullenhoe, Heinrich von (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
The Latin part of this fragment (f. 1r–3r) contains a collection of excerpts from various authors regarding sins and penance, morals, etc. The French part (f. 3v–4v) contains one or two poem(s) in verse, which seem to have survived only in this fragment.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Innocentius III, Papa: Oratio Innocentii (III.). (2r)
Incipit: Innocencius Papa fecit hanc oracionem Deus qui nobis signatis lumine
Explicit: super nos iudicem securi videamus qui vivis.
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- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Defensor, Locogiacensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a collection of letters exchanged in the court circle of Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is generally attributed to Petrus de Vinea (Chancellor of Friedrich II.; ca. 1200-1249). This collection has been reproduced in over 230 manuscripts and was long regarded as a model for writers because of the elegant language used in the letters. The role of the collection as a model is enhanced in CB 132 by the inclusion of a copy of the "Ars dictaminis" by Bovilius Aretinus.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
- Innocentius III, Papa: Epistula ad Fridericum regem Siciliae. (f. 30v)
Incipit: Papa Imperatori. Quia prima primi lactis pocula tibi dominus absinthio miscuit
Explicit: intuitu benigno respicias
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- Innocentius III, Papa: Epistula ad legatum. (—)
Incipit: Cum enormes excessus relinqui non debeant
Explicit: incomplet: per leges dissolui meretur (4 lignes — éd. Migne, P.L. 214, col. 642 = liv. II, ep. 95 début).
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Bonfilius, Aretinus (Author) | Charles, d'Anjou, I (Author) | Clemens IV, Papa (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Mazzei, Lapo (Former possessor) | Petrus, de Vinea (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript produced at the end of the 13th century contains a copy of the Arthurian romance tales in prose: "Estoire del Graal", "Merlin", "Suite Merlin", "Queste del saint Graal", and "Mort le roi Artu". The interpolations used in CB 147 make it a particularly unusual manuscript: the heroes of the Arthurian tales are made to utter translations of the Gospels, Genesis, and various other biblical texts as well as sermons by Maurice de Sully. The manuscript also contains the "Faits de Romains", and a prose version of the "Roman de Troie" not found elsewhere. The plentiful illuminations are executed in a highly unusual style.
Online Since: 07/25/2006
- Innocentius III, Papa: Misère de la condition humaine (Ff. 66c-70c)
Incipit: Ci endroit tesmoigne la sainte Escripture que Job dit: «Porquoi issi ge dou ventre ma mere a veoir la doleur de ce monde et la poine, por degaster les jors de ma vie en confusacion». Se cil qui Dex saintefia ou ventre sa mere dit de soi tiex paroles, que porrai ge dire de moi qui suis de ma mere conceuz et congenuiz. Et aussi comme Job dist: «Porquoi ne sui ge mort ainçois que ge naquisse ou quant ge sui issuz du ventre, porquoi ne peri ge tantost, porquoi sui ge receuz des genolz, alestiez de mameles, nez en arçon et en viande de feu
Explicit: fol. 70c Jhesus Criz Nostre Sires fu crucefiez et Barrabas li lierres fu delivrés. Tiex est ores li siecles que li pesibles est tenuz a divers et li religieux a ypocrite, li simples a fol, et la simplece aus bons homes est escharnie, que la lumiere (c'est la bone vie aus bons homes) est despite en la pensee des riches homes.
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Mauritius, de Sulliaco (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a treatise on penitence in German. It is dated April 25th 1453 (f. 72r). The guardleaves consist of fragments from the Prima collectio decretalium Innocentii III by Rainerius of Pomposa.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Reinerus, Pomposanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
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The volume was copied by several fourteenth-century hands. Its contents were either planned to be more extensive or it is not completely preserved. A summary of contents on p. 3, as well as a slip of paper glued to the front cover with a post-medieval table of contents list seven parts, of which, however, only four are present: excerpts from the lives of the Monastic Fathers in two parts (pp. 3–28 and 28–53), excerpts from Gregory the Great's life of St. Benedict (pp. 53–79), and excerpts from the Purgatorium Patricii (pp. 80–91). An index of these four parts can be found on pp. 92–95, followed by two sermons of Pope Innocent III (pp. 96–111) and passages from other sermons (pp. 111–114). On the front and back parchment flyleaves appear numerous notes and ownership entries of different sorts, dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. According to them, in the fifteenth century, the book belonged to the Leper chapel of St. Gallen. The medieval half-leather binding was reused in the seventeenth century for a new binding.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Innocentius III, Papa: [Lotharius cardinalis (Innocentius III. papa), Sermones duo] (96-111) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
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The paper manuscript, bound with a limp binding, is composed of four parts written in the first half of the fifteenth century. Parts II and IV are probably to be ascribed to the hand of Johannes de Nepomuk, who came from the Cistercian house of Nepomuk in Bohemia. The manuscript probably reached the Abbey of St. Gall by the middle of the fifteenth century at the latest. It contains Latin sermons, spiritual treatises, and documents pertaining to the Council of Constance in the years 1417–1418.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Innocentius III, Papa: Dialogus inter deum et peccatorem (205-215) Found in: Standard description
- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This small-format manuscript contains for the most part sermons (pp. 3–49). They have been numbered (1–39) in the margin by a later hand, which also wrote the title Sermones de tempore and the ownership mark Liber s. Galli on p. 3. According to Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150–1350, II.766 und IV.49 and Hamesse, Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, No. 31477, the authors of these sermons include Lothario dei Segni (Innocent III), Hugh of Saint-Cher, and Nicholaus de Gorran. A wide range of texts follows on p. 49: seven short letters or letter formularies on pp. 49–51 (including from the Abbot of Isny to the Abbot of Blaubeuren, from the Duke of Bavaria to two bailiffs, from parents to their son, studying in Padua, and from the student to his parents); mnemonic aids on the Eucharist, the duties of a confessor, the seven sacraments, etc. (p. 51); an additional sermon (p. 52) (by Lucas de Bitonto; Schneyer, Repertorium, IV.56, No. 88); the Fifteen Portents of the Last Judgment (p. 53); Odo of Cheriton's Parabola De rustico et eius domino (p. 54); a Tractatus naturalis, inc: Cum alterius nature sit truncus, alterius surculus (pp. 55–62); a commentary on Aristotle's De anima, inc: Bonorum honorabilium noticiam [...] subiectum huius libri de anima est anima prout est coniuncta corpori (p. 63-77). The manuscript, bereft of ornamentation, is bound in an early-modern cardboard binding that has been covered in fragments of a printed missal.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Aristoteles (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Caro (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Lucas, de Bitonto (Author) | Nicolaus, de Gorra (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) Found in: Standard description