Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 a.C.n.)
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
- 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 small-format codex probably is from the Carthusian monastery of Mainz, from where it came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, where numerous ownership notes were added. It contains a great variety of excerpts from religious, historical and other literature from the Middle Ages and antiquity. The length of the texts also varies considerably: in addition to short excerpts and two- or four-line verses about various things such as popes or bees, there are longer pieces such as Hugh of Fouilloy's De rota verae et falsae religionis or the first half of Paradisus Animae by Pseudo-Albertus Magnus.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Adamus, de Einesham (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Hugo, de Folieto (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Hugo, Lincolniensis (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Jacopone, da Todi (Author) | Johannes, Damascenus (Author) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, Lombardus (Author) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Venturinus, de Bergamo (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel was written by various hands; it contains primarily astrological writings, among them texts by Abraham ibn Esra, Al-Zarkali and Hermes Trismegistus translated from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. In the margin of f. 120r there is a blessing against worms, on f. 145v medical advice in a blend of German and Latin. In addition to handwritten parts, the volume also contains three prints. One of the two original leather clasps is still intact.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alfonsus, Bonihominis (Translator) | Aristoteles (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Campanus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Henricus, Bate (Translator) | Hermes, Trismegistus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Johannes, de Lineriis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Maġribī, as-Samauʾal Ibn-Yaḥyā al- (Author) | Nicolaus, de Tudeschis (Author) | Petrus, de Abano (Translator) | Petrus, De Andelo (Author) | Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Ṯābit Ibn-Qurra (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Valescus, de Taranta (Author) | Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Yaḥyā az- (Author) Found in: Standard description
The parts of this volume, originally bound separately, were bound together in the Basel Franciscan library. They contain different works of Cicero and the Englishman Geoffroy of Vinsauf's Poetria novella and were produced in Italy. There are many indications of previous owners, but none have been identified with certainty. One of the parts belonged to Niccolò dei Salimbeni – probably not the rich young man in Dante's Inferno, but perhaps one of his descendants in Siena. Another part once cost the father of a certain Nicholaus de Monleone 5 ducats and 30 shillings. Finally, the value of the whole volume was set at 320 Swiss Francs by the Zurich experts, who were assigned to prepare a division of property after the 1833 split of the Canton Basel.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galfredus, de Vinosalvo (Author) | Gellius, Aulus (Author) | Guizardus, Bononiensis (Author) | Guizardus, Bononiensis (Commentator) Found in: Standard description
The extensively glossed Rhetorica ad Herennium in the front part of this composite manuscript was copied by Johannes Heynlin, who also brought this book with him to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. The text from the 1st century BC represents the oldest surviving theory of rhetoric in Latin; it was very popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as attested by a vast tradition of more than 100 manuscripts as well as translations into numerous European languages. The volume transmits principles of rhetoric that have remained valid until to this day.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The so-called Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli is one of the most famous and most requested manuscripts in the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The manuscript is exceptionally richly illustrated; it is from a workshop in the circle of the imperial court in southern Italy. Neither the scribe nor the illustrator is known, but, the text was doubtlessly corrected by the author himself. The text, an epic poem in Latin in about 1700 distichs that has survived only in this manuscript, is divided into three books. The first two books describe the prehistory of Sicily and its conquest by the Staufers; the third book contains a poem in praise of the parents — Emperor Henry VI and his wife Constance, daughter and heir of King Roger II of Sicily — of the famous Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II, who was born on 26 December 1194 in Jesi near Ancona.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Caesar, Gaius Iulius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Ebulo (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Extraordinary compilation of various texts by Isidore on secular (Etymologiae, De natura rerum) and ecclesiastic topics (Prooemia biblica, De ortu et obitu patrum; Allegoriae), as well as pieces on the Latin language (Differentia, Synonyma, Glossaria). This composite manuscript contains three full-page family trees as well as astronomical and geometric figures. Originally written in the scriptorium of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, probably in Saint-Mesmin-de-Micy, this volume was soon held in Strasbourg, as attested by various Formulae iuris as well as a glossary of herbs and an incantation. From the holdings of Jacques Bongars, the volume came to Bern in 1632; here the original early 8th century flyleaves (Bern Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 91.8) were removed around 1870.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Fleury, consists of two independent parts. The first part (f. 1-47) comprises three commentaries on the Old and the New Testament; the second part (f. 48-192) consists of a total of 14 glossaries containing a total of about 25,000 lemmas. A particularity of this manuscript is that it shows different stages in the development of glossaries side by side. The first part represents an earlier stage with definitions of words in the order of the source text, also containing glosses in Old English and Old High German. In the second part the glossaries are already more developed with entries on individual authors or certain topics, ordered alphabetically by keywords.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Haimo, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Johannes, Scotus Eriugena (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This textual witness of the Rhetorica ad Herennium, erroneously attributed to Cicero, was produced in the Loire area. The manuscript gained great attention in the 19th century already because it contains a short library catalog from the 11th/12th century, which probably refers to books from the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy. The claim that the manuscript originated in Fleury, proposed by many earlier authors, is uncertain and has been rejected several times in recent times. This volume came to Bern in 1632 from the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Two bifolia from a collection that contains, alongside a fragment of Guido of Arezzo's Versus de musicae explanatione, other rhetorical, metrological, and philosophical treatises. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia (= 1 quire) from a manuscript from Northeastern France, containing the Synonyma falsely attributed to Cicero. The (Pseudo-)Hebrew terms with Latin translations on the last leaf are interesting. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia of a humanistic manuscript perhaps produced in Italy. This beautifully illuminated fragment contains the beginning of Cicero's De amicitia and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia (probably 1 quire) from a manuscript produced in Fleury. The content of the texts, which are partly designed as a student-teacher dialogue, ranges from orthography and grammer to the Artes liberales and the ages of the world to a glossary of the parts of the body. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript consisting of four very different parts that probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars; parts B and C are from the Collège de Navarre in Paris. All parts are at least partly illuminated. All fragments have related parts in other libraries: for part A, Paris BN lat. 7709, f. 1–4; for B, Paris BN lat. 17566, f. 1–40; for C, Paris BN lat. 17902, f. 1–85; and for D, Leiden UB, Voss. Q 2 IX (f. 60).
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Coeur, Jean (Patron) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, de Grana (Annotator) | Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Steiger, Karl Ludwig von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains De senectute, De amicitia, the Paradoxa ad Brutum by Cicero, the Synonyma by Pseudo-Cicero, and the anonymous treatise De punctorum ordine. It was created in Italy in a humanistic script from the second half of the 15th century. The frontispiece and the intials introducing the various texts are decorated with “bianchi girari;“ on f. 1r the coat of arms with the golden lion rampant on a red background, framed by a laurel wreath, could not be identified.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Tortellius (Author) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains Cicero's speeches, which were copied out in a humanistic script of the 15th century. The book decoration consists of initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and a frontispiece, the decoration of which extends across the entire page f. 1r. At the center of the bottom margin, surrounded by a laurel wreath, the coat of arms of the Medici family of Florence stands out, covering an even older coat of arms. The manuscript belonged to Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (1490-1553) from Florence and then to the Venetian monk and later manuscript dealer Luigi Celotti (1768-1848).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Celotti, Luigi (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Salviati, Giovanni (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
While Cicero is regarded today mainly as a philosopher and politician, he was regarded during the middle ages mainly as a teacher of public rhetoric. This is demonstrated by CB 52, most likely of French origin, which consists of copies of "De inventione" and a work long attributed to Cicero, "Rhetorica ad Herennium". The manuscript dates from the beginning of the 12th century.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Varenne de Fenille, Philibert C. (Former possessor) 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
- 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 late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek authors, among them Pliny, Cicero, Silius Italicus, Plautus, Livy, Horace, Sallust, Plutarch, Seneca and others. Pellegrin, following Tammaro de Marinis, attributes the writing to the copyist Gian Marco Cinico, who worked for the kings of Naples between 1458 and 1494. The different parts are introduced by golden initials with bianchi girari, only partly completed (ff. 1v, 4v, 20r, 22r, 50r, 186v). Some of these bianchi girari are left unfilled on a blue, red, green or black background, others are colored pink, green or blue on a black or golden background. The vine scrolls are inhabited by putti and animals such as rabbits, stags, butterflies or birds. Numerous frames show putti engaged in hunting or other playful activities (e.g., ff. 55r, 79r, 139r, 169r).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Cinico, Giovan Marco (Scribe) | Claudianus, Claudius (Author) | Heilbrun, Georges (Seller) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Rinutius, Aretinus (Translator) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vitruvius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The text De verborum significatu by the Latin grammarian Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans. This manuscript is of Italian origin and retains its contemporary binding with a wooden cover. It was written during the 15th century on parchment and contains lovely gilded initials on a blue and red background. Quotations have been added in the margins to explain certain words in the text. The last leaves in the volume contain excerpts from Greek and Latin authors.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
- Apicius (Author) | Aristophanes (Author) | Asconius Pedianus, Quintus (Author) | Berchem, Denis van (Former possessor) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Festus, Sextus Pompeius (Author) | Gellius, Aulus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Servius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This is a composite manuscript containing works with philosophical and rhetorical content. At the beginning are translations by Boethius of Aristotle's Categories and the Peri Hermeneias; these are followed by a piece called De Dialectica and Cicero's Topica with In Topica Ciceronis, the commentary by Boethius.
Online Since: 08/12/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This small-format codex contains Cicero's rhetorical work De inventione. The text, mostly in dark-, sometimes light-brown ink comes from multiple hands, which all have their own careful and consistent appearance. Except for some simple decorated initials, slightly larger at the beginning of the prologue and of both books, and the occasional red-ink accentuated capitals and text-beginnings, there is no book decoration whatsoever. A later inscription on 1r indicates that this is probably a volume from the milieu of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) Found in: Additional description
This single-column paper manuscript is dated December 20, 1453 (f. 163r). The Liber officiorum was written by a main hand, which also added the red marginalia throughout the manuscript. A second hand is responsible for the interlinear glosses, other marginalia and red manicules. Chapter headings and lombards were kept in red throughout. The three parts of the work are each introduced by an initial containing a figure (f. 1r, 69r, 112v). Fol. 1r was additionally decorated with a frame of plant ornaments. The ex-libris on the front pastedown names Georg Alfred Kappeler (1839-1916, theologian and pastor) from Frauenfeld as the owner of the paper manuscript. The Kappeler family is proven to have lived in Frauenfeld since 1443. Due to their influential activities as governors, teachers and pastors, in the 19th century the Kappeler family was part of the educated middle class, to which Georg Alfred Kappeler also belonged. His legacy lives on today through several valuable manuscripts and prints still held by the Cantonal Library of Thurgau.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Kappeler, Alfred (Former possessor)
Le Mignon is a collection of various historical narratives and moral or philosophical texts. Henri Romain is the author of the summary of the three decades of Titus Livius and the Compendium historial, a compilation of ancient stories. Laurent de Premierfait is the translator of De la vieillesse by Cicero, and Jean Courtecuisse translated Des Quatre vertus cardinales by Seneca. This manuscript from the studio of Maître François presents seven beautiful frontispiece illuminations.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Berchorius, Petrus (Translator) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | François, Meister (Illuminator) | Johannes, de Brevicoxa (Translator) | Laurent, de Premierfait (Translator) | Le Bègue, Jean (Translator) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Martinus, Bracarensis (Author) | Nemours, Jacques d'Armagnac de Castres de (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Romain, Henri (Author) Found in: Standard description
“Lives of philosophers” constitute a subcategory of the ancient literary genre of “lives of illustrious men” that was considered anew beginning in the 12th century. The Latin text of this manuscript, the Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum veterum, attributed to Gautier Burley (actually an anonymous Italian author from the early 14th century), consists of a collection of moral maxims from various philosophers, whose names are indexed at the end of the work (f. 93r-94r). This copy, dated 1452, may be from the Abbey of Saint-Denis and later was the property of Paul and Alexandre Petau, before becoming part of the holdings of the Bibliothèque de Genève as part of the bequest of Ami Lullin.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Burlaeus, Gualterus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Lentulus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Paul (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Cicero's De officiis of is a political work on ethics, used throughout the Middle Ages, from Augustine, to the compilers of his moral sequences, to Christine de Pizan in her Chemin de long estude. Numerous commentaries have been written on this work, as attested by this 15th century paper manuscript. On the last double page (f. 120v-121r) the ethical theme of the Ciceronian text is continued as a schema of virtues. This manuscript was in the possession of the regent of the Collège de Genève, Hugues Lejeune (1634-1707), who donated it to the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Dufour-Vernes, Louis Théophile (Librarian) | Senebier, Jean (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
One of the ancient authors best known in the Middle Ages doubtlessly was Cicero. Some of his speeches - the Orationes - were rediscovered by humanists, as is attested by this copy. The manuscript contains 27 of Cicero's speeches, written in a round Italian humanistic script. It begins with a miniature depicting a group of speakers in a discussion (f. 1r), painted by Péronet Lamy, an illuminator who is documented from 1432 until 1453 and who worked primarily for Amadeus VIII, the Duke of Savoy. It is likely that Péronet Lamy carried out this decoration when he was at the Council of Basel as part of the Duke's entourage. Also present there was Martin le Franc (1408-1461), ducal secretary and author of the Champion des Dames and the Estrif de fortune et de vertu; according to a scraped entry (f. 290r), he came into possession of this manuscript. Thereafter it belonged to Germain Colladon (back pastedown), a fellow student of John Calvin, who fled to Geneva in 1550. Around 1615, one of his daughters-in-law sold the manuscript, together with Ms. lat. 53, to the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Colladon, Germain (Former possessor) | Lamy, Péronet (Illuminator) | Martin, Lefranc (Scribe) | Martin, Lefranc (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the middle of the 15th century is from the Augustinian hermitage in Basel. Since 1470, several brothers there cared for the pilgrimage site Mariastein. This volume was probably left there and was found by the monks from Beinwil, when they took over the pilgrimage site in 1636. It contains, among others, sacred (S. Bonaventura), profane (Cicero, Sallust), historical (Piccolomini/Pius II.) and rhetorical (Laurentius de Aquileja) texts. The second part of the volume, containing the Rhetorica , was written in 1465/66 by the Augustinian Matthias Glaser from Breisach in Basel. A fragment glued to the interior of the front cover gives information regarding the content of the volume.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Additional description
The largest part of this voluminous manuscript consists of an abbreviated version of the Universal Chronicle of Platterberg/Truchseß, completed in 1459 (pp. 3−796), which in the older literature is also referred to as the “St. Gall Universal Chronicle.” This chronicle also contains the so-called St. Galler Cato (pp. 259−260; Disticha Catonis; Von Catho dem weysen und seinen spruchen), a partial German translation of the work De officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero (pp. 263−265); as well as more quotations from other works by Cicero (pp. 265−271). Next are a German version of the fictional correspondence between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, King of the Brahmins, written by Meister Wichwolt (pp. 809−815); Cronica Allexandri des grossen konigs), the German version of the History of the Three Kings (Historia trium regum) by John of Hildesheim (pp. 816−854); and the report about Jean de Mandeville's travel to India in the German translation by Otto von Diemeringen (pp. 854−917). At the end (pp. 918−940), the volume contains an incomplete version of the travelogue of Johannes Schiltberger (1380 – after 1427) from Bavaria, who had been taken captive by the Ottomans. The book decoration consists of numerous red and blue Lombard initials. In 1570, the volume was owned by Luzius Rinck von Baldenstein (p. 940), brother-in-law of Prince-Abbot Diethelm-Blarer (1530-1564) of St. Gall; at the latest by the 17th century, the volume became part of the holdings of the monastery library of St. Gall (p. 3: Liber Monasterii S. Galli).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Additional description
A compendium of 39 medical texts by known and unknown authors, produced in the second half of the 9th century, most likely in northern Italy, already obtained at an early date by the Abbey Library of St. Gall. This codex includes—sometimes in unique exemplars—an alphabetically ordered Greek-Latin herbal glossary, the treatise De re medica by one Pseudo-Plinius (Physica Plinii), and a longer medical tract entitled Liber Esculapii.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A small-format compendium of ten different medical texts, produced shortly after 800 in an unknown scriptorium, probably in Italy. The contents also include a treatise by the Greek physician Anthimus in the form of a letter to the king of the Franks Theoderich "On the diet" (De observatione ciborum), through which we gain insight to the nutritional habits of one Germanic people.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A copy of Aristotle's Categoriae (Categories) and De interpretatione (On interpretation) in Latin with commentaries by Boethius, with translation into Old High German and additional commentaries by St. St. Gall monk and teacher Notker the German († 1022); written during the 11th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. In addition, the manuscript includes copies of two works by Cicero, the Topica and De optimo genere oratorum.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
A school manuscript from the Abbey of St. Gall containing texts for the subjects of dialectic and rhetoric. The manuscript provides copies of the commentaries of Boethius on the Categories and on the Hermeneutics of Aristotle, a selection of the rhetorical tract by Alcuin († 804) with many schematic diagrams, and copies of Cicero's works De inventione and De optimo genere oratorum. The texts were copied around the end of the 9th century and during the 10th century and contain a multitude of Latin and Old High German glosses as well as numerous glosses in dry point from the 10th through 12th centuries.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional description
A composite manuscript intended for teaching purposes, written in Mainz during the first half of the 11th century, possibly brought to St. Gall by the monk Ekkehart IV. Ekkehart IV. taught intermittently at the cathedral school in Mainz and added a great many glosses to this manuscript. The codex gathers together a number of texts used in school teaching, for example copies of the commentary of Boethius on Aristotle's De interpretatione, Cicero's Topica, the Geometry I by (pseudo?)-Boethius as well as additional works by Boethius, such as De differentiis topicis, De divisione, De syllogismis categoricis and De syllogismis hypotheticis. At the end of the volume are two brief texts by Ekkehart IV. about the Septem Artes Liberales, (on page 488) verses in praise of Boethius and (on page 490) an allegory based on the Septem Artes Liberales in the form of instructions to a goldsmith.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
This codex, written in humanist minuscule, contains philosophical works by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC): pp. 3–121 Tusculanae disputationes (“Tusculan Disputations”), pp. 121–248 De finibus bonorum et malorum (“On the Ends of Good and Evil”), pp. 249–344 De natura deorum (“On the Nature of the Gods”) and pp. pp. 345–416 De divinatione (“On Divination”). The coat of arms on p. 3 (four bearded male faces in profile, arranged in a circle) most likely was that of the later Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli (1397–1455, Pope 1447–1455). Parentucelli used this coat of arms (“stemma delle quattro barbe”, Manfredi, p. 662) in the years before he was elected pope. It is found in 38 manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome as well as in a codex in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Padua (ms. C27). The white vine initials, typical of Florentine book decoration, are similar to those in the codex from Padua, whose illuminations Silvia Fumian attributes to the Florentine artist Bartolomeo Varnucci (* ca. 1412/1413). Perhaps Parentucelli commissioned this manuscript in 1439–1443, when he resided in Florence for the Council.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
- Bartolomeo, d'Antonio di Luca di Iacopo Varnucci (Illuminator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Nikolaus V., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
This codex probably did not originate in St. Gall; it contains two important works of rhetoric: Cicero's De inventione (pp. 3–107) and the Rhetorica ad Herennium (pp. 107–205). Here the latter work is divided into six rather than four books. There are numerous glosses by hands from the 12th to the late 15th or early 16th century.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, probably not written in St. Gall, contains Cicero's Topica on pp. 1-21 (defective at the end), and Boethius' commentary on that work on pp. 21-216. On the inside of the front cover, one can discern the negative impression of a page from the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sag. 730, p. 17).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description