Conradus, de Megenberg (1309-1374)
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
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- 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
This manuscript contains a collection of computistic and astronomical texts, as well as medical recipes in German (Alemannic) and Latin. Among the identified texts there are excerpts from the Buch der Natur by Konrad von Megenberg. Spaces intended for decorations and perhaps for illustrations have remained blank.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Conradus, de Megenberg (Author) | Falck, Peter (Former possessor) | Gremaud, Jean (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
TThis southern german manuscript is a collection of medical texts that include, in addition to the Artzneibuch (Book of Nutrition) by Ortolf von Baierland and extracts from the Thesaurus pauperum by Petrus Hispanus,a complete separate text on healing as the Corpus of cloister medicine as well as assorted versions of the Wacholderbeertraktat (Juniper berry tract), extracts from Bartholomeus, the Antidotarium Nicolai and much more. These texts were assembled between 1463 and 1466 by Reichenau physician Hans Stoll. The codex is listed in the first catalog of the Solothurn City Library of 1766/1771.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Alexander Hispanus (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Baierland, Ortolf von (Author) | Bartholomaeus, Anglicus (Author) | Bernardus, de Gordonio (Author) | Conradus, de Megenberg (Author) | Johannes XXI, Papa (Author) | Johannes, de Sancto Amando (Author) | Nicolaus, Salernitanus (Author) | Peter, von Ulm (Author) | Regenbogen (Author) | Schrick, Michael (Author) | Stoll, Hans (Author) | Stoll, Hans (Scribe) | Weiss, Peter von Köln (Author) | Wilhelm, von Wallis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alexander Hispanus (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Baierland, Ortolf von (Author) | Bartholomaeus, Anglicus (Author) | Bernardus, de Gordonio (Author) | Conradus, de Megenberg (Author) | Johannes XXI, Papa (Author) | Johannes, de Sancto Amando (Author) | Nicolaus, Salernitanus (Author) | Peter, von Ulm (Author) | Regenbogen (Author) | Schrick, Michael (Author) | Stoll, Hans (Author) | Stoll, Hans (Scribe) | Weiss, Peter von Köln (Author) | Wilhelm, von Wallis (Author) Found in: Additional description
Collection of German medical texts. The beginning is missing, then the Ordnung der Gesundheit for Rudolf von Hohenberg (pp. 3-60); various recipes for medicine, magic and food (pp. 63-101), among them a treatise on vultures and verbena from the Bartholomäus (pp. 64-69); “Verworfene Tage” (pp. 69-71); a recipe for vinegar (pp. 73-76); an excerpt from the Buch der Natur by Conrad of Megenberg (pp. 82-85); recipes making use of “Schwalbenstein” (pp. 89-90); prognostics for the new year and for thunder (pp. 90-94); recipes for wine (pp. 95-101). Herbal book with excerpts from the Macer Floridus by Odo von Meung (pp. 101-146); medical recipes (pp. 146-147); applications for medicines according to the Macer Floridus (pp. 147-161); recipe against the ritten (p. 162). At the end on p. 164 there is a colored sketch of Agrimonia (Odermennig). The manuscript, originally from the library of Aegidius Tschudi (no. 117), is related to the 2° Cod. 572 of the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
- Conradus, de Megenberg (Author) | Odo, Magdunensis (Author) | Tschudi, Aegidius (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
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This codex, written by multiple hands, contains a nearly complete copy of Conrad of Megenberg's natural history (Das Buch der Natur); only a few chapters are missing, some of which are due to a loss of pages. Quires 17 (pp. 371–394) and 18 (pp. 395–418) are bound in the wrong order. A contemporary table of contents introduces each of the parts of the third book (on animals) and of the fourth book (on trees). The numbers of the leaves given there correspond to the individual parts' foliation, which frequently starts over. On the back paper pastedown there is an ownership mark written in the hand that numbered the leaves: sint der bletter CClxxvj bletter vnd ist dz ůrrich [Ulrich] von fulach. This note indicates that a total of 12 leaves have been lost. As the dedication to Abbot Joseph von Rudolphi (Abbot 1717–1740) on the front pastedown shows, this volume was in the Abbey Library of St. Gall by the eighteenth century at the latest.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
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