Hagen, Hermann (1844-1898)
This codex consists of two parts that were united in the 9th century already. The first part, written in Mainz (ff. 1-110), contains the second book of Cassiodorus' Institutiones, which is devoted to secular knowledge; since the 9th century, it has been preserved in several manuscripts in an interpolated version that contains Cassiodorus' remarks on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, supplemented with excerpts from Quintilian, Boethius, Augustine and others. The second part, written in Mainz or in Saint-Amand (ff. 111–126), contains the picture poems of Optatianus Porphyrius as well as some from the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne. A note in Jacques Bongars' own hand indicates that the manuscript - like many others - came into his possession from the chapter library of Strasbourg Cathedral.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Josephus, Scotus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Remnants of a manuscript of the Summarium Heinrici as well as of the glossary of plants appended thereto, with interlinear glosses in German. Prior to 1875, Hermann Hagen detached them from three book bindings from the Stadtbibliothek of Bern. Other parts are located in the Zentralbibliothek of Zurich and the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek of Bonn.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
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- Cramer, Andreas Wilhelm (Former possessor) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Henzi, Niklaus (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Folium from a manuscript of the Collectanea rerum memorabilium by Gaius Julius Solinus; it contains parts of the Descriptio Indiae. Prior to 1875, Hermann Hagen detached it from a host volume from the Stadtbibliothek of Bern.
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- Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Niklaus, Johannes (Librarian) | Solinus, Gaius Julius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium from a manuscript of the Viaticus by Constantinus Africanus, from a handbook for traveling doctors, translated from Arabic. Prior to 1875, Hermann Hagen detached it from a host volume from the Stadtbibliothek of Bern.
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- Constantinus, Africanus (Author) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Henzi, Niklaus (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
The first page of this manuscript contains a note in Latin, listing the six texts that make up the volume; the note is contemporaneous with the manuscript that was executed during the 12th century. The note identifies four of the texts as treatises by Augustine – De doctrina christiana, Contra Felicianum arrianum, Explanatio epistolae ad Galatas, De consensu quatuor evangelistarum – and reports not knowing "nescitur" who wrote the last two texts. Modern criticism recognized in these texts the De vita christiana attributed to Fastidius (4th-5th century) and a treatise on the Trinity identified as the Pro fide catholica and attributed to Fulgentius Ruspensis (467-532). This copy was executed very carefully, the text was checked and corrected, and the main divisions are marked by elegant ornamental initials in red and blue. The origin of the manuscript, before its publication in the 1620 catalog of printed books and manuscripts of the Bibliothèque de Genève, is unknown.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Fastidius, Britannicus (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) Found in: Standard description