Benedictus, de Nursia (480-547)
Death records compiled at the time of the double cloister of Muri, between 1120 and 1140. Includes, among other items, death records from Hermetschwil, seasonal monetary contributions and interest, a martyrology (Usuardus Sangermanensis), and a copy of the Benedictine Rule.
Online Since: 04/14/2008
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula Benedicti. (S. 125-181)
Incipit: Ausculta o fili
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from the beginning of the 13th century is of unknown origin; it contains monastic and canonistic writings, among them, for example, the monastery rule that Benedict of Nursia issued for his monastery at Monte Cassino in 529, Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis about the ideal of the (secular) pastor of souls from the late 6th century, or the abbreviated version of a part of the Decretum Gratiani from the 12th century.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula (sine prologo) (78r-103r)
Incipit: Monachorum quatuor esse genera manifestum est
Explicit: deo protegente pervenies.
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- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have been intensely used, as suggested by soiling and signs of heavy usage. The original red leather binding is covered with another layer of leather that sticks out beyond the covers at the bottom and can be folded over the lower edge as protection. The manuscript contains prayers, hymns and other devotional texts by numerous different authors — primarily saints and popes — such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Bernard of Clairvaux. Also represented are Carthusian authors such as Heinrich Arnoldi. Several colored woodcut and metalcut prints have been glued onto leaf 4v and 316v.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Oratio de beata Maria virgine (311r)
Incipit: Ave sidus lux dierum. Ave gemma mulierum
Explicit: quia per te datur via ad eterna gaudia. Amen.
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- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Bonifatius IX., Papst (Author) | Coelestinus V., Papa (Author) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Thomas, Becket (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume is from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains the first part of the Collationes Patrum by John Cassian (360/365-432/435). It also contains assorted excerpts on the life and work of Cassian from various sources, as well as a letter on the way of life at the Abbey of Monte Cassino under abbot Desiderius (1058-1087). This manuscript was produced in Lorsch and forms a unit together with B V 14. It has supplements and signs of use up to the15th century.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A legal manuscript, probably incomplete, which contains an extensive collection of texts. Among the most important are four laws, the Lex Salica, Lex Ribuaria, Lex Alamannorum and Lex Baiuvariorum; a short and fragmentary collection of capitularies issued by Charlemagne; excerpts from De legibus, from Isidore of Seville's Sententiae, from the Codex Theodosianum and from the Rule of Saint Benedict. The text of the Lex Baiuvariorum also contains legal terms in Old High German. In 1789 the codex was acquired by Count Johann-Christian Solms, who resided in Klitschdorf Castle near Bunzlau (Silesia) - his coat of arms can be found on f. 1r - which is why the codex is known in the literature as the "Codex Klitschdorf" or "Codex Solmsianus.” In 1960 Martin Bodmer purchased this codex from the New York antiquarian book dealer H. P. Kraus.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula monachorum (f. 17v-18v) Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Karl I, Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains a martyrology (pp. 1-28), the Rule of Saint Benedict (pp. 28-83) and a homiliary (pp. 84-126). It was written by two scribes in a late Carolingian minuscule and contains two initials decorated with plant branches drawn in ink. In the 13th century, a document about the confraternity of Einsiedeln Abbey and St. Blaise Abbey in the Black Forest was added to a blank area at the end of the text of the Rule of Saint Benedict (p. 83).
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Martyrologium, S. Benedicti Regula, Homiliarium Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula monachorum (28-83) Found in: Standard description
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- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript consists of five parts. The first part (1-93) contains an exemplar of the Benedictine Rule, which was probably brought to Einsiedeln by Saint Meinrad († 861). From the viewpoint of textual-criticism, the text belongs to the group of Textus receptus of the Benedictine Rule, as it is found in northern Italy and in Montecassino in the 8th/9th century; noteworthy are the many interlinear glosses. The other parts of the composite manuscript contain: a Martyrologium (93-108), a Breviarium Apostolorum (98-99), two hymns (100), and a poem composed by Heinrich von Würzburg (109-148).
Online Since: 04/23/2013
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula Sancti Benedicti (S. 1-93) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula Sancti Benedicti (Seite 1-93)
Incipit: Auusculta o fili precepta magistri et inclina aurem cordis tui et ammonitionem pii patris libenter excipe
Explicit: uirtutum que culmina deo protegente peruenias. Amen. Facientibus hæc regna patebunt superna fiat. amen
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- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Henricus, Herbipolensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The first part (pp. 1-178) contains ascetic treatises in Rhaetian or Alemannic minuscule, which originally constituted a single volume together with Einsiedeln 199. The other parts were written in Carolingian minuscule. The second part there of (pp. 179-270) can be localized to Switzerland or Northern Italy and the last part (pp. 271-314) to France. The manuscript was held in Einsiedeln in the 14th century already, as attested by numerous maniculae in the hand of Heinrich von Ligerz.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Benedictus, de Nursia: sregel, Kapitel 4 (Seite 1-4)
Incipit: Inprimis dominum deum diligere ex toto corde
Explicit: et stabilitas in congregatione.
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Ebbo, Remensis (Author) | Halitgarius, Cameracensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains the Benedictine Rule. A German translation follows each Latin chapter. The different sections are to varying degrees distinguished from each other through simply decorated initials in red ink, and the Latin text appears in a slightly thicker script. According to a Latin (1r) and a German (72r) dedicatory verse, the manuscript was produced under Abbot Walther (Walther I. of Iberg, 1250-1267, or Walther II. of Cham, 1267-1276).
Online Since: 06/09/2011
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Benedictus s. abbas, Regula lat. germanica Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Benedictus s. abbas. Regula lat. germanica.
Incipit: Ausculta, o fili, praecepta magistri
Explicit: ſo chvnſt denne mit gottiſ hilfe zi der hohi dir tvgindon. Amen.
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- Benedictus, de Nursia: Benedictus de Nursia, Regula deutsch (In dem namen vnsirs herrin ihesv chtisti so vet an dv regula des vrmerigin vatirs...). Found in: Additional description
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Cistercian capitulary for the nuns of Fille-Dieu Abbey in Romont. In addition to the martyrology and the necrology, the manuscript contains the Rule of Benedict in French. The text was probably written at the Abbess's request and copied by Uldry Charbodat, the priest of Romont, who describes his work in a poem. In it he confirms that he received the parchment from Catherine de Billin (f. 107r). The Capuchin Apollinaire Dellion (1822-1899) donated the manuscript to the Fribourg library in 1879.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula S. Benedicti, französisch (f. 78v-106v) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Coelestinus III., Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript consisting of two distinct parts: 1) a 9th century St. Gall copy of the commentary of Jerome on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes and the commentary of Bishop Justus of Seu de Urgel (Urgelitanus) on the Song of Songs, 2) a collection of manuscripts of mainly patristic content, including excerpts from the works of Jerome, Benedict, Eucherius and Augustine. The manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, is also called the Egino-Codex and is supposed to have been produced in about the year 800 at the cloister of Reichenau by a group of Veronese scribes who had settled on the island of Reichenau together with their former (Veronese) bishop (796-799) Egino after he stepped down from his office.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Egino (Patron) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Iustus, Urgellensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Egino (Patron) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Iustus, Urgellensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Egino (Patron) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Iustus, Urgellensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Egino (Patron) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Iustus, Urgellensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
Meant for daily use in the chapter office, this volume was written in 1542/43 by the secular cleric Fridolin Sicher (1490−1546), born in Bischofszell, for St. Gall Prince-Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1530−1564; cf. his coat of arms on p. 5 and p. 8 as well as p. 268); later the volume came into the possession of the monastic community of St. Gall. Before as well as after the Reformation, Fridolin Sicher was cathedral organist and calligrapher for St. Gall Abbey. In the front of the volume there is a Latin copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict (pp. 5-72), followed in the later part by an abridged version, consolidated into a single draft, of the Martyrologium Romanum and a necrology related to St. Gall Abbey (pp. 83-267). Under Prince-Abbot Bernhard Müller (1594−1630), this chapter office book was replaced with a new necrology begun in 1611 (cf. Cod. Sang. 1442) that no longer contained the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regel des hl. Benedikt (p. 3) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula sancti Benedicti abbatis (5-72)
Incipit: Ausculta o fili precepta magistri ac inclina aurem cordis tui ac admonicionem pij patris
Explicit: virtutum culmina: deo protegente peruenies Amen.
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Blarer von Wartensee, Diethelm (Patron) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula S. Benedicti. - Martyrologium cum necrologio S. Galli Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula S. Benedicti. - Martyrologium cum necrologio S. Galli Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Blarer von Wartensee, Diethelm (Patron) | Sicher, Fridolin (Scribe) Found in: Additional description
The second-oldest surviving chapter office book of the Abbey of St. Gall, begun in the 12th century and maintained, with the addition of many entries, until early modernity. This volume contains, among other things, lists of the bishops of Constance (736-1318) and the abbots of the cloisters at Reichenau (724-1343) and St. Gall (719-1329), records of brothers who became members of the Abbey of St. Gall, readings and homilies for Sundays and holy days in the chapter assembly of the monchs, a copy of the Rule of St. Benedict, a martyrology complete with death records, tables and explanations for figuring the dates for Easter, and a copy, with continuation, of the St. Gall Annals found in Cod. Sang. 915. At the very back: two printed lists of St. St. Gall monks from 1757 and 1798.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Mone, Franz Joseph (Annotator) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Mone, Franz Joseph (Annotator) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Mone, Franz Joseph (Annotator) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula sci. Benedicti: (p. 73-125) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Mone, Franz Joseph (Annotator) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Mone, Franz Joseph (Annotator) | Usuardus, Sangermanensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
The most historically significant exemplar of the Benedictine Rule from the time after 810.
Online Since: 09/14/2005
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula S. Benedicti (p. 1-172) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, Anianus (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Fructuosus, Bracarensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Reginbertus, Augiensis (Librarian) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, Anianus (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Fructuosus, Bracarensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Reginbertus, Augiensis (Librarian) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, Anianus (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Fructuosus, Bracarensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Reginbertus, Augiensis (Librarian) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Benedictus, Anianus (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Fructuosus, Bracarensis (Author) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Reginbertus, Augiensis (Librarian) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Additional description
The oldest capitulary from the monastery of St. Gall, containing, among other items, a martyrology, a necrology, the annals of St. Gall and several rules for monks.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula [sci. Benedicti] (p. 27-110) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Columbanus, Sanctus (Author) | Gregorius IX, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Hymmonides (Author) | Macarius, Aegyptius (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Columbanus, Sanctus (Author) | Gregorius IX, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Hymmonides (Author) | Macarius, Aegyptius (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
The Latin-Old High German Rule of St Benedict, one of the oldest monuments of the Old High German language.
Online Since: 09/14/2005
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Chrodegangus, Metensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Simplicius, Cilicius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regula [S. Benedicti] (S. 2-159) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Chrodegangus, Metensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Simplicius, Cilicius (Author) Found in: Additional description
The main text of this manuscript, which shows signs of intense use, is the Rule of St. Benedict in a German translation (pp. 3-107). Based on a comparison of the script with that of Cod. Sang. 546, this text was written by the St. Gall monk Fr. Joachim Cuontz († 1515). According to a 1504 note of ownership on p. 1, the manuscript belonged to the monastic women's community of St. Georgen above St. Gallen. On pp. 120-121 there is an admonition to the sisters to keep the Rule, also written by Fr. Joachim Cuontz. In between and after, there are short texts by other hands: pp. 108-112 an instruction on how to pray the "Heavenly Rosary" following on pp. 112-117, a spiritual song for rosary meditation in 13 verses with the promise of indulgence (Inc. gott vater in dem höchsten tron), p. 118 an exhortation to the sisters to be vigilant (according to 1 Pt 5:8-9) and to ask for blessings, pp. 123-125 a dictum and the rhyming prayer of Nicholas of Flüe (ain guotti hailsamy lerr von bruoder clausen in schwitz, Inc. bruoder klaus von underwalden, and bruoder klausen gewonliches gebett, Inc. O min gott und min schöpfer nim mich und gib mich gantz zuo aigen). On p. 126 there are notes of ownership (?), on p. 128 (according to Paul Staerkle, Die Handschriften des ehemaligen Klosters Wiborada zu St. Georgen, in: Die hl. Wiborada, vol. 2: Die Verehrung der Heiligen, St. Gallen 1926, p. 84) a register for the transport of sand from 1477-1487, "which stipulates some services from the quarry donated to the church for the new church construction” ("der einige Dienstleistungen aus dem der Kirche geschenkten Steinbruch zum neuen Kirchenbau festsetzt”).
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Benedictus, de Nursia: Regel des h. Benedict in deutscher Uebersetsung. (S. 3-107) Found in: Standard description
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