Basilius, Caesariensis (330-379)
This manuscript, in a strikingly narrow format, was created in Mainz and, as a gift from the Carthusians living there, it later came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel. It contains a large number of short and very short texts: in addition to some sermons, it mainly contains excerpts from theological, church historical and political treatises, including some in German.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Basilius, Caesariensis: Contra luxuriam (60v-61r)
Incipit: Audi fili monicionem patris tui et inclina
Explicit: hec Basilius in regula sua
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Galfredus, de Vinosalvo (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Groote, Geert (Author) | Grosseteste, Robertus (Author) | Guilelmus, Parisiensis (Author) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hildegard, von Bingen, Heilige (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Damascenus (Author) | Johannes, Zotzenheim (Author) | Konrad, von Soltau (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Richardus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript was owned by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide, who donated it to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains a collection of speeches and letters by renowned humanists such as Poggio Bracciolini and Enea Silvio Piccolomini— among them an original letter from Johannes Reuchlin to Jakob Louber— with texts by Greek and Oriental authors in Latin translation. Parts of the manuscript are written by Heynlin and Reuchlin.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Basilius, Caesariensis: De legendis libris gentilium, Leonardo Aretino interprete, cum epistula dedicatoria (218r-233v)
Incipit: Magni Basilii introductiones per Leonardum Aretinum eloquentissimum virum translate ad Colutium. Ego tibi hunc librum Coluti ex media ut aiunt gretia delegi 219r Magni Basilii libellus incipit. Multa sunt filii que hortantur me ad ea vobis consulenda
Explicit: 233v recta consilia aspernantes. Magni Basilii de instituendis adolescentibus libellus explicit.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis: Homilia 11 de invidia, Nicolao Perotto interprete (244r-254r)
Incipit: Ad Nicolaum quintum. Contemplanti mihi sepenumero, summe pontifex, virtutes viciaque 245r Basilii oratio de invidia. Bonus es deus et bonorum merentibus largitor
Explicit: sicut et deus donavit nobis.
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- Balue, Jean (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Blondus, Flavius (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Translator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Librarian) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Johannes, Ioffridi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Louis XI., France, Roi (Author) | Maximus, Tyrius (Author) | Mehmed II., Osmanisches Reich, Sultan (Author) | Perottus, Nicolaus (Translator) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) | Proclus, Constantinopolitanus (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Translator) | Senilis, Paulus (Author) Found in: Standard description
One of the Isidore codices from the Monastery of Fulda; it survived because it reached Basel in the 16th century, before the library's destruction in the Thirty Years' War. There it apparently served as a possible textual source for a planned edition of Isidore's works. The codex consists of several parts. A German Anglo-Saxon manuscript from the second half of the 8th century containing the second book of Isidore's Synonyma was supplemented in the first third of the 9th century, probably in Fulda, with the first book of the same work by Isidore. Very early already, this was bound together with another item containing Admonitio ad filium spiritualem by Pseudo-Basilius as well as various excerpts, which probably were also written in Fulda around 800.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
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- Basilius, Caesariensis: Admonitio ad filium spiritualem; (28r-41v)
Incipit: Audi, filii, monitionem patris tui
Explicit: paravit deus diligentibus se. amen finit deo gratias capitula sancti bassili episcopi capodocie. qui nescit scribere nullum podet esse laborem. tres digitos describunt totum corpus laborat.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Knöttel, Johann (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This magnificent complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) was given to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Martin in Tours by the Levite Berno (note and book curse on f. 1v). Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. However, Cod. 165 does not present the true Scholia Bernensia as in Cod. 167 und Cod. 172, but rather a collection by various scholiasts which was compiled in Tours — hence the name Scholia Turonensia.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Basilius, Caesariensis: De XII libris Aeneidos. (54r)
Incipit: Primus habet Lybicam veniant ut Troes in urbem
Explicit: Ultimus inponit bello Turni nece finem.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) is connected to Auxerre. In the beginning the manuscript contains numerous paratexts to Virgil, such as the vitae, Argumenta, etc.; beginning on f. 6v, the inner column is reserved for the text, the outer one for the scholia. Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which in this form have been transmitted almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. Cod. 167 presents the true Scholia Bernensia, but only the left column, not the right column of Cod. 172; whether it was copied from the latter remains in dispute.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Basilius, Caesariensis: De XII libris Aeneidos. (54ra)
Incipit: Versus super XII libros. Primus habet Libicam veniant ut Troes in urbem
Explicit: Ultimus inponit bello Turni nece finem.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This complete edition of the works of Virgil is from Fleury. This manuscript contains only the Bucolics, the Georgics and the first five books of the Aeneid; the second part with books VI to XII is now in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 7929). In the beginning the manuscript contains the so-called Vita Donatiana and various slightly later texts. It is made with great calligraphic care so that the central column is always bordered on the right and on the left by a column of scholia. Cod. 172 is the principal textual witness of the scholia (commentaries) by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Basilius, Caesariensis: De XII libris Aeneidos. (72rb)
Incipit: Incipiunt versiculi Ovidii Nasonis super XII libros Aeneidorum. Primus habet Lybicam veniant ut Troes in urbem
Explicit: Ultimus inponit bello Turni nece finem.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24) was written by various unskilled hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to the 8th/9th century and localized in a scriptorium in northern Italy or in Switzerland. The second part (25-140) is dated to the second third of the 9th century.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Eligius, Noviomensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This collection contains, together with other texts, a collection of Canons of ecclesiastical law called the Collectio Quesnelliana. It was probably produced in a scriptorium in northeastern France and was later held by the Court Library of Charlemagne. In the 11th century it was placed in the Cologne Cathedral library, where it was annotated by Bernold von Konstanz. It was later owned by suffragan bishop of Constance Jakob Johann Mirgel (1559-1629) before making its way, together with a group of his books, to the cloister at Einsiedeln.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Annotator) | Cyrillus, Alexandrinus (Author) | Fabri, Johann (Former possessor) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Mirgel, Johann Jakob (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Annotator) | Cyrillus, Alexandrinus (Author) | Fabri, Johann (Former possessor) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Mirgel, Johann Jakob (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains a collection of classical descriptions of lives of monks in a High Alemannic translation. It was written by Jos of Ulm. He dated the completion of his work 30 September 1451.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
- Basilius, Caesariensis: De laude solitariae vitae. (209r–214v)
Incipit: Der heilig byschof und fürnem lerer Basilius sprach
Explicit: von gottes wort.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This copy of Augustine's Enarrationes in psalmos 1–50, written in two columns, is listed in the supplements to the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v); together with Min. 16, it completes the older Min. 17. Beautiful parchment, the same layout with large margins as in Min. 16, several hands. The initials with scroll ornamentation are rather small and often are not completed. The ornate decorative capital on the incipit page (f. 1v) confirms that it was created later. Judging by its shape, the leather binding is Romanesque and was equipped with five bosses and clasps in the 14th/15th century. The handwritten note of ownership on the front pastedown and the title label on the back cover probably are from the same period.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
The provost and dramatist Johannes Aal (ca. 1500-1551) was a leading figure in 16th century Solothurn. This composite manuscript, produced between 1517 and 1518, gives an insight into his time as a student. It contains excerpts on Greek and Latin grammar and rhetoric, writings on music theory, as well as excerpts from Petrarch, Guarini, Johannes Reuchlin, Sebastian Brant and others.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Aal, Johannes (Former possessor) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Vegius, Mapheus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This unimposing composite manuscript contains six works of differing content types and origins, bound together under the auspices of the librarian of St. Gall in about 1460. The individual elements were produced independently of one another during the 9th or 10th century. Some are incomplete, lacking the beginning, the ending, or both. Nevertheless, this composite manuscript received attention from early on, as some of the component parts are important for the texts they transmit. This volume contains the only early medieval transmissions of the Langobard Chronicle by Andreas Bergamensis and the life of the Irish saint Findan. The "Admonitio ad filium" by the Greek church father Basilius and the "Visio Pauli", an early christian vision of the afterlife, are among the oldest of textual artifacts.
Online Since: 05/20/2009
- Basilius, Caesariensis: Basilius Caesariensis, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem Found in: Standard description
- Basilius, Caesariensis: Admonitio ad filium spiritualem. (1r-13r) Found in: Standard description
- Andreas, Bergamensis (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Goldast, Melchior (Annotator) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Paulus, Apostolus (Author) | Schobinger, Bartholome (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript of juridical and theological content from the 10th century, probably from the Abbey of St. Gall. The codex contains, in addition to many other texts, the capitulary of bishop Hatto of Basel and bishop Theodulf of Orléan, the Poenitentiale of one Pseudo-Egbert, the provisions of the Council of Nicea (325), works by Alcuin, including his tract De virtutibus et vitiis as well as a copy of the Admonitio Generalis of Charlemagne from 789.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Basilius, Caesariensis: Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (103-131) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Ecbertus, Eboracensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Hatto, Basiliensis (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Basilius, Caesariensis: Basilii admonitio ad monachos (S. 103-131) Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Ecbertus, Eboracensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Hatto, Basiliensis (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Additional description