Kraus, Hans P. (1907-1988)
Remnants of a manuscript of the Arabel by Ulrich von dem Türlin, which constitutes the backstory to the Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Purchased by the Burgerbibliothek in 1937 from Hans Peter Kraus, antiquarian book dealer in Vienna.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bloesch, Hans (Librarian) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Ulrich, von dem Türlin (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex from southern Germany is composed of two parts bound together in one German binding in 1569. The first part of the manuscript contains about a hundred leaves from the 12th and 13th centuries. It begins with a calendar featuring numerous constellations and full page illustrations. Following are prayers and liturgical songs. The second part consists of thirty leaves containing a series of Latin prayers in carefully wrought late 14th century Gothic script.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Petrus, Damiani (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Petrus, Damiani (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Petrus, Damiani (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Additional description
Written in two columns in bastarda script with a decoration of fleuronné initials, from the first quarter of the 15th century (Wetzel), with two astrological tables added already in the 15th century (Wetzel) on the old flyleaf (f. 1r). The text of the Psalter, in the dialect of Rhenish Franconia (Hessen?), is closely related to the Psalter Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Ms. theol. 214 v from the beginning of the 15th century. Wetzel assumes at least one common model. Thus the translation is part of Schöndorf's group 9, subgroup c) around München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 182 or Walter's Psalter 18.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Arenberg, Engelbert Prosper Ernst von (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
The Edelstein contained in this manuscript consists of 100 fables, composed around 1330 by the Bernese Dominican Ulrich Boner; the fables were taken from various Latin sources and were translated by Boner into Swiss Dialect. The script and the typical characteristics of the layout with spaces for never-executed illustrations indicate a work from the late phase (approximately about 1455-1460) of Diebold Lauber's workshop in Hagenau in Alsace, a work that had been prepared to be completed at the request of a buyer.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Boner, Ulrich (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Lauber, Diebold (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
The "Codex Ricasoli Firidolfi", written on paper at the end of the 14th century, provides important evidence of the dissemination of Dante Alighieri's Commedia. The initial of the opening verse of the Inferno shows the famous profile of the author, surrounded by flowers.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Dante, Alighieri (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the German version of the Gesta Romanorum, a collection of anecdotes and tales originally in Latin that were compiled around the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century. It was very popular throughout the entire Middle Ages and was published repeatedly. This codex was written 1461 (f. 150vb) in Bavaria.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Görres, Joseph von (Former possessor) | Hinterberger, Heinrich (Seller) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Langer, Eduard (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
The Laudi by the Italian Franciscan Jacopone da Todi are religious-inspired poems, written as ballads with varying metrical forms, often set in dialog form. This codex was produced in the second half of the 14th century by four different scribes.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Jacopone, da Todi (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This 14th century Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental work which attests to the 14th century's interest in the history of Roman law. It comprises various reference texts, which are systematically accompanied by the Glossa ordinaria, the so-called "Magna glossa" by Franciscus Accursius, an interlinear gloss and the gloss of the Gloss, which are works of explanation and instruction for the use of the text. Many manicules or fists (lat manicula, ae: small hands) testify to the assiduous labor which a large number of readers have performed on this dry text. This manuscript contains numerous pecia marks. A detached page (f. 37bis) contains a poem to the reader by the Italian jurist Angelus Boncambius (about 1450).
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Accursius, Franciscus Senior (Author) | Accursius, Franciscus Senior (Commentator) | Angelus Boncambius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
The two originally independent parts of this manuscript were bound together probably in the last third of the 15th century (after 1469, cf. Index p. Iv). The first part, written in a single column (pp. 1r-272), contains the Buch der Natur (Prologfassung) by Conrad of Megenberg. This part of the manuscript features marginal corrections and glosses (especially for medically relevant parts of the text), which may be by the original owner of the manuscript (Hayer 1998, p. 162). Especially parts I, III, IV, and V of the Buch der Natur contain marginal notes and interlinear glosses in a 15th century hand which reworks the natural history texts allegorically for preaching. Numerous smaller and larger marginal illustrations. The second part, written in two columns (pp. 274ra-307rb) contains a medical compendium in six parts (childhood illnesses – illnesses due to the imbalance of the humores – diseases of the eyes – the plague, skin diseases, fever – surgery and wound care – venereal diseases, bone injuries, burns), Latin and German recipes and prescriptions, as well as a German table of contents. On p. 284ra is a drawing of surgical instruments. Formerly privately owned by the antiquarian Hans P. Kraus, New York, Nr. 1958/13; prior to that Maihingen, Fürstl. Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibl., Cod. III.1.2° 3.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Avicenna (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Conradus, de Megenberg (Author) | Denenat, Johannes (Author) | Karl und Faber Kunst- und Literaturantiquariat (Seller) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
A legal manuscript, probably incomplete, which contains an extensive collection of texts. Among the most important are four laws, the Lex Salica, Lex Ribuaria, Lex Alamannorum and Lex Baiuvariorum; a short and fragmentary collection of capitularies issued by Charlemagne; excerpts from De legibus, from Isidore of Seville's Sententiae, from the Codex Theodosianum and from the Rule of Saint Benedict. The text of the Lex Baiuvariorum also contains legal terms in Old High German. In 1789 the codex was acquired by Count Johann-Christian Solms, who resided in Klitschdorf Castle near Bunzlau (Silesia) - his coat of arms can be found on f. 1r - which is why the codex is known in the literature as the "Codex Klitschdorf" or "Codex Solmsianus.” In 1960 Martin Bodmer purchased this codex from the New York antiquarian book dealer H. P. Kraus.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Additional description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Additional description
These fragments of Ovid's Fasti were discovered around 1700 in the monastery school of Ilfeld and have since been known as "Fragmentum Ilfeldense". In 1956 they became part of the collection of Martin Bodmer, after they had been used as endpapers or in a book binding. The Fasti is a poem in elegiac couplets, the theme of which is the Roman calendar – only the first six months – as well as the changes introduced at the beginning of the Empire with the feast days in memory of Augustus.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The double page at the beginning of this manuscript of the Metamorphoses and the Fasti of Ovid shows its connections to antiquity: the use of initials in the fashion of antiquity, the purple tint that colors the entire double page and the laurels that crown the poet's verses and anchor the production of this volume in the Italian Renaissance. The dedication in golden letters on the back of the first page confirm this origin: the manuscript was copied by the Neapolitan Ippolito Lunense for the secretary of Ferdinand I. of Aragon, Antonello Petrucci, whose coat of arms, surrounded by putti and horns of plenty, may be found on the back of the second page. The style, color and ink are changed according to the text. The decoration with bianchi girari of a very high quality is typical of Neapolitan production methods that were practiced by the royal illuminator Cola Rapicano.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Hawtrey, Edward Craven (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Oricus, de Capriana (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
At an unknown date, this late 12th century parchment bifolium was used as binding, as attested by traces of folding in the lower margin. It contains an excerpt of the Tristia, a collection of letters in elegiac couplets written by Ovid during his exile. The text is continuous, which indicates that the bifolium came from the middle of a quire; only a few verses are missing due to a cut in the upper part of the leaf. It was purchased by Martin Bodmer in 1958 from the bookseller Kraus in New York.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (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
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- 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
10th century manuscript of Italian origin, which contains numerous works of rhetoric: the Ars rhetorica by Fortunatianus, the Principia rhetorices by Augustine, the Praecepta artis rhetoricae by Julius Severianus and the Partitiones oratoriae by Cicero. In the 14th century, it became the property of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), who, at various times of his life, added numerous marginal notes. The manuscript demonstrates the humanist's interest in the Oratores latini minores (minor Latin orators), which contributed to their rediscovery and proliferation.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fortunatianus, Consultus (Author) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Patron) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Former possessor) | Iulius, Severianus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Lathrop C. Harper Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (Seller) | Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) | Petrarca, Francesco (Former possessor) | Rauch, Nicolas (Seller) | Rosenthal, Bernard M. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This dated paper manuscript contains the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit by the German mystic and Dominican Henry Suso (1295-1366), which was in wide use during the Middle Ages, as well as the allegorical treatise Die zwölf Lichter im Tempel der Seele, which originally might have been part of a sermon. The linguistic characteristics of the text (Bavarian dialect) suggest an origin in South Tyrol, while a later annotation on the flyleaf (18th-19th century) could be an inventory note stating that it belonged to the library of the St. Elisabeth Convent of the Poor Clares in Brixen.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Rosenthal, Heinrich (Seller) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Theban and Trojan sagas held an important place in the literature of the middle ages. The contents of manuscript CB 160, written in 1469 on paper by Jacotin de Lespluc (« escript par la main de Jacotin de Lespluc »), form part of this tradition. This codex contains a prose version of the "Historia trojana" by Guido delle Colonne and a history of Thebes that closely follows the "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César". The ink wash drawings are very similar to those found in Ms. 9650-52 of the Königliche Bibliothek of Belgium.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Gaignat, Louis Jean (Former possessor) | Guido, de Columnis (Author) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) | Utterson, Edward Vernon (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Gaignat, Louis Jean (Former possessor) | Guido, de Columnis (Author) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) | Utterson, Edward Vernon (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the Dragmaticon, a work by the scholar Wilhelm de Conches, a member of the School of Chartres. It is possible that the codex was produced in about 1230 in the area of Cologne in a scholastic circle and that it is among the oldest surviving texts of the Dragmaticon, which is transmitted in a total of about 70 medieval manuscripts. The portable format, assorted schemata and tables provided, and the script used (Gothic cursive) indicate that the manuscript was intended for university use. The first section of the manuscript contains a computus for determining when movable feast days should fall.
Online Since: 05/20/2009
- Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Burn, Jacob Henry (Seller) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, de Conchis (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description