Possidius, Calamensis († post 437)
This quaestio disputata by the Augustinian Johannes of Paltz (around 1445-1511) is a perfect illustration of the working methods of medieval scholasticism. The manuscript was written in Erfurt in the summer of 1486 and has as its topic the refutation of three errors. The first regards those who claim “to be able to calculate and foresee the Last Judgment.” It seems that this document is the only handwritten version of this text, which is known through two printed editions from the 15th century. Franz Xaver Karker (1812-1892), Canon of the Cathedral of Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), donated this work to the Fribourg library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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This small but extensive (198 ff.) prayer book is written in a variant of North German (Middle Low German). In accordance with the female form in many of the prayers, it was intended for a woman. With the exception of one full-page miniature depicting Christ as the gardener before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), all illuminations have been removed. An ex-libris on the front pastedown informs us that this small manuscript was a gift to the Fribourg Library in 1891 from Franz Xaver Karker, canon of Wroclaw Cathedral.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanistic script, was commissioned by Pope Leo X († 1521). The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding's cover, in a rich frieze on the frontispiece, and in the initials on f. 3v and f. 134v. The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525) or his circle. This codex is from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Attavanti, Attavante (Illuminator) | Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Leo X., Papst (Patron) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris (Author) Found in: Standard description
Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can be dated to the 15th century. It belonged to Franz Miklosich (1813-1891), one of the most important Slavicists of his time, and was a gift to the Basel Antiques Collection, the precursor of the Basel Historical Museum.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains over a hundred lives of the saints and acts of the martyrs, most of them accompanied by rubricated initials and incipits. Aside from a few decorated initials, also red, there is no book decoration. The layout of the manuscript and the careful preparation of the parchment with artful colored needlework express the tradition of the scriptorium under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178). The staid script in black ink, often interrupted by another finer hand, sets this volume apart from the others from Frowin's library; it is therefore also possible that this codex was made under Frowin's successor, Berchtold (1178-1197).
Online Since: 06/09/2011
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- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Constantius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Flodoardus, Remensis (Author) | Godescalcus (Author) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Odo, Glannafoliensis (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Theodorus, Cantuariensis (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
This single-column manuscript contains five partly incomplete texts by Augustine; it consists of two parts that clearly differ from one another, but that have been a single unit since before 1100, as can be seen from the entry in the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v). While the second part (69 ff.) is undecorated, the first part has an incipit page and an initial with scroll ornamentation. In the 15th century this codex, like many others, received a new leather binding with an inscribed front cover, metal bosses and a clasp, as well as a title label on 1r; a fragment from a 12th century missal with neumes was used for the front pastedown.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita Augustini, cap. 31,1-31,7. (82v)
Incipit: Sane ille sanctus
Explicit: vel in proposito vel extra constituit.
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript of hagiographic character containing the lives of Saints Colomban, Eustacius, Gall, Otmar, Nicholas of Myre, Augustine, Meinrad, Walburga, Sigismond, Alexis, and Aper as well as a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by Remigius of Auxerre.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita sancti Augustini. (104v-131v) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Johannes, Diaconus Neapolitanus (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Maximus, Taurinensis (Author) | Paulus, Neapolitanus (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Johannes, Diaconus Neapolitanus (Author) | Jonas, Bobiensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Maximus, Taurinensis (Author) | Paulus, Neapolitanus (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
Manuscript compilation from the second half of the 9th century, predominated by lives of the early Christian and early Frankish saints. The codex contains, among other items, the life history of St. Augustine written by Possidius as well as a catalog of the writings of Augustine, a copy of the life history of St. Remaclus with dedicatory letter and prologue (from the 11th century), and the lives of Saints Sualo (an Anglo-Saxon who lived at Einsiedeln), Pelagius, and Purchard.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Possidius, Calamensis: Indicium librorum sancti Augustini (1-48) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita sancti Augustini (50-178) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Tituli [capitulorum] (50-53) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Prologus (55-58) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita (58-178) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ermenricus, Elwangensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Herigerus, Lobiensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Notker, Leodiensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Index librorum s. Augustini (S. 1-48) Found in: Additional description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ermenricus, Elwangensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Herigerus, Lobiensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Notker, Leodiensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
The St. Gall Passionarium novum: a large-format manuscript containing the lives of early Christian, early German and Carolingian saints, written in the cloister at St. Gall during the 9th and 10th centuries. This volume includes the oldest known, and indeed the best surviving copies of the life histories of saints Meinrad, Odilia, Hilarius, Trudpert, Verena, Leodgar and Pirmin.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita sancti Augustini (S. 451a-498b) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Tituli (S. 451a-452b) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Vita (S. 452b-498b) Found in: Standard description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Commemoratio librorum sancti Augustini (S. 499a-513b) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Erchenbaldus, Argentinensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Paulinus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Neapolitanus (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Sophronius, Hierosolymitanus (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Willibaldus, Moguntinensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Erchenbaldus, Argentinensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Paulinus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Neapolitanus (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Sophronius, Hierosolymitanus (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Willibaldus, Moguntinensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Possidius, Calamensis: Augustini, cum indice librorum (auct. Possidio) (p. 240-242) Found in: Additional description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Berno, Augiensis (Author) | Erchenbaldus, Argentinensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Paulinus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Neapolitanus (Author) | Possidius, Calamensis (Author) | Sophronius, Hierosolymitanus (Author) | Ursinus, Locogiacensis (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Willibaldus, Moguntinensis (Author) Found in: Additional description