Theodorus, Cantuariensis (602-690)
This quaestio disputata by the Augustinian Johannes of Paltz (around 1445-1511) is a perfect illustration of the working methods of medieval scholasticism. The manuscript was written in Erfurt in the summer of 1486 and has as its topic the refutation of three errors. The first regards those who claim “to be able to calculate and foresee the Last Judgment.” It seems that this document is the only handwritten version of this text, which is known through two printed editions from the 15th century. Franz Xaver Karker (1812-1892), Canon of the Cathedral of Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), donated this work to the Fribourg library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, von Paltz (Author) | Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This small but extensive (198 ff.) prayer book is written in a variant of North German (Middle Low German). In accordance with the female form in many of the prayers, it was intended for a woman. With the exception of one full-page miniature depicting Christ as the gardener before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), all illuminations have been removed. An ex-libris on the front pastedown informs us that this small manuscript was a gift to the Fribourg Library in 1891 from Franz Xaver Karker, canon of Wroclaw Cathedral.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanistic script, was commissioned by Pope Leo X († 1521). The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding's cover, in a rich frieze on the frontispiece, and in the initials on f. 3v and f. 134v. The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525) or his circle. This codex is from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Attavanti, Attavante (Illuminator) | Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Leo X., Papst (Patron) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris (Author) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript from Fulda with texts primarily on the topic of repentance and asceticism. Similar to a series of Isidore-codices from Fulda, it reached Basel in the 16th century - possibly because one of the texts contained therein also survived under Isidore's name; thus it escaped the abduction and destruction of the Fulda library during the Thirty Years' War. The various parts and texts are written in Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian minuscule and originated in Fulda and its surroundings, up to Mainz. The leather binding, presumably still Carolingian, was much changed at a later time, especially due to the removal of the covers. Apparently in Basel, what had formerly been the first quire (Paenitentiale Theodori), in a markedlay smaller format, was removed from the collection. Today it bears the shelf mark N I 1: 3c.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ambrosius, Autpertus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Columbanus, Sancti Trudonis (Author) | Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Knöttel, Johann (Librarian) | Petri, Heinrich (Former possessor) | Silvester I, Papa (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This fascicle contains the version of the Paenitentiale Theodori named for this textual witness the ‘Canones Basilienses;' it was written by two hands from Fulda in an Anglo-Saxon minuscule of the first quarter of the 9th century. Around 1500, this quire was part of the current manuscript F III 15e. This explains the title de conflictu viciorum et virtutum on 1r, which does not fit with the content of the quire. As evidenced by the lost text at the beginning and at the end, N I 1: 3c had previously been part of another codex.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Ambrosius, Autpertus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains over a hundred lives of the saints and acts of the martyrs, most of them accompanied by rubricated initials and incipits. Aside from a few decorated initials, also red, there is no book decoration. The layout of the manuscript and the careful preparation of the parchment with artful colored needlework express the tradition of the scriptorium under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178). The staid script in black ink, often interrupted by another finer hand, sets this volume apart from the others from Frowin's library; it is therefore also possible that this codex was made under Frowin's successor, Berchtold (1178-1197).
Online Since: 06/09/2011
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- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
This voluminous composite manuscript brings together the Casus Sancti Galli, the history of the monastery of St. Gall from the early and high Middle Ages, and about 50 lives of saints in texts of various lengths, among them those of the St. Gall saints Gallus, Otmar and Wiborada. The manuscript was created in the 1450s, when relations between the monastery and the town of St. Gall were sorted out, and the monastery launched extensive reforms.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Theodorus, Cantuariensis: Vita sancti Magni (37ra-44vb)
Incipit: In tempore illo cum beatissimus Columbanus simul cum beato Gallo diversa loca perlustrarent
Explicit: Celebratur autem sollemnitas sancti Magni confessoris Cristi atque abbatis quarto ydus Septembris ad laudem et gloriam nominis domini.
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- Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Conradus, de Fabaria (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Goldast, Melchior (Annotator) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Hermannus, Sangallensis (Author) | Iso, Sangallensis (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Annotator) | Joachim, Vadianus (Former possessor) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) | Sulpicius, Severus (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can be dated to the 15th century. It belonged to Franz Miklosich (1813-1891), one of the most important Slavicists of his time, and was a gift to the Basel Antiques Collection, the precursor of the Basel Historical Museum.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description