Manuscript Summary:This codex contains Augustine's City of God. The manuscript was probably begun under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) and completed and decorated under his successor Berchtold (1178-1197). The last folio is cut out; it may have had dedicatory verse on it, as was the practice for the Engelberg scriptorium under Frowin and Berchthold. Some of the initials have been erased and reworked.(grd)
Standard description: P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 113.
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Additional description: Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 100.
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Online Since: 06/09/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 17
Parchment · 145 ff. · 32 x 22.8 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1197
Augustinus, De Civitate Dei contra paganos
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 17, f. 2r – Augustinus, De Civitate Dei contra paganos (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0017)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35.
Manuscript title: Aurelii Augustini De Civitate Dei contra paganos
Date of origin: Exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
Olim signatus 1/15.
Extent:
Foliorum 145.
Format: 320 : 228 mm.
Page layout:
Lineis plenis.
Decoration: Tituli rubricati, litterae initiales praeter duas 'Frowinianas' artificiose delineatas minio tinctae sunt; nonnullae tamen erasae et per manum saeculi XII. exeuntis conspiciuntur refectae figurisque decoratae.
Contents:
Aurelii Augustini: De Civitate Dei contra paganos
libri decem priores.
Praecedit caput 43. ex libro secundo retractationum s. Augustini.
Interea Roma Gothorum irruptione …–…
gloriosissimam civitatem Dei
P. L. 32, 647-648.
Ad calcem codicis aliquot folia per vim et nefas excisa sunt, ita ut liber decimus in capite 26. desinat his verbis:
alios autem qui in terris ea quae patris sunt, et al
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P. L. 41, 13-304.