Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (1210-1272)
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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- Johannes, von Paltz (Author) | Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
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
- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- 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
A later title plate describes the content: Sermones de beata virgine super Missus est. Item tabula, in qua continentur 7 virtutes and, by a later hand, Tractatus contra pestem et tractatus super Egredietur virga. The first text (1r-48r) offers an explanation of the Hail Mary in 14 sermons. Friedrich von Amberg annotated the Tractatus bonus de VI nominibus corporis Christi by the Cistercian monk of Heilbronn (67r-97v). This is followed by the copy of a treatise on the plague (100r-105r), the Good Friday postil by the Dominican Antonius Azaro Parmensis (f. 105v-123r), and additional texts which probably interested Amberg as sermon material.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: Sermo in assumptione BMV. (123v–124r)
Incipit: Maria optimam partem elegit (Lc 10,42). In hiis verbis dupliciter preconio altissimo commendatur beata virgo
Explicit: cum enim haberet sapienciam ut arenam maris multam et disputasset a cedro usque d//.
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- Antonius, de Parma (Author) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Scribe) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Mönch, von Heilsbronn (Author) | Richardus, de Mediavilla (Author) Found in: Standard description
Collection of Latin sermons by the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg (in two volumes). The production of this codex involved consultation of Berthold's originals. Marginalia by Friedrich von Amberg appear throughout the entire manuscript (volume I).
Online Since: 04/14/2008
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- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: Sermones Rusticani prima pars (f. 2r-242v) Found in: Standard description
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- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: [Bertholdi Ratisbonensis Sermonum rusticanorum Tabulae primae et secundae partis], I: f. 255r-266v; II: f. 273v-285r. (255r-266v) Found in: Additional description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
Collection of Latin sermons by the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg (in two volumes). The production of this codex involved consultation of Berthold's originals. Marginalia by Friedrich von Amberg appear throughout the entire manuscript (volume II).
Online Since: 04/14/2008
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: OFM, Sermones Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: Sermones Rusticani secunda pars (f. 1r-262v) Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: [Bertholdi Ratisbonensis Sermonum rusticanorum Tabulae primae et secundae partis], I: f. 255r-266v; II: f. 273v-285r. (273v-285r) Found in: Additional description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript consists of four parts from different eras. The first part (ff. 1r-59v, 2nd half of the 13th century) contains Bonaventure's Breviloquium; the second part (ff. 60r-153v, 13th-14th century) contains excerpts from the Talmud; the third part (ff. 154r-239v, 14th century) contains sermons by the Franciscan Gualterus de Brugis as well as the text Pharetra by Pseudo-Bonaventure; finally, the fourth part (240r-268v, first half of the 14th century) contains the collection of sermons Rusticani by the Franciscan Berthold of Regensburg. The Extractiones de Talmud are especially interesting since they represent the largest surviving corpus of Latin translations of the Talmud and since they were produced in Paris in 1244/1245, at the time of the revision of the condemnation of the Talmud, which had been proclaimed in 1240/1241. The version in this codex has the translations organized not following the order of the treatises, but instead thematically, according to the various arguments. The binding from the last century, for which parts of an old binding were reused and which shows traces of a chain, indicates that the manuscript originated in the Franciscan monastery of Schaffhausen.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Bonaventura, Sanctus: Talmud, Gualterus de Brugis, Bertholdus Ratisbonensis Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: Rusticanus de tempore et de sanctis. (251r-268v)
Incipit: Virtutes celorum movebuntur (Lc 21,26). Per virtutes accipimus spiritus
Explicit: homini auferant. Quod nobis etc. Amen.
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- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Gualterus, de Brugis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A 14th/15th century folio manuscript, written by several hands on differently-arranged sheets of paper, contains an extensive explanation of the liturgical year (Directorium spirituale, pp. 3–205), followed by sermons (pp. 205b–211, 257–370, 375–414), the Acts of the Apostles with a commentary (pp. 213–255), a computistic table (pp. 372–373) and a few lines of Thomas Aquinas on suffrages. The manuscript is incompletely rubricated and has no ownership marks. A colophon to the Acta apostolorum provides the year 1405 (p. 255). The fifteenth-century binding is lacking clasps.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: [Sermones varii, i.a. Bertholdi Ratisbonensis] (205b-211) Found in: Standard description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Lasko, Osvald (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Lasko, Osvald (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
The paper manuscript was copied in a rapid cursive by Friedrich Kölner during his stay at the monastery of St. Gall between 1430 and 1436. It contains first the lives of the Apostles in the German translation of the summer part of the Golden Legend (pp. 6-269). There then follow, also in German, the sermon Von den Zeichen der Messe, composed by the Franciscan Berthold of Regensburg (pp. 269-284), Die Legende von den Heiligen Drei Königen, composed by Johannes von Hildesheim (pp. 284-389), a Pilatus-Veronika-Legende (pp. 389-400), a Greisenklage (pp. 400-402), and finally the Fünfzehn Vorzeichen des Jüngsten Gerichts (pp. 402-403). According to Cod. Sang. 1285, p. 11, the manuscript entered the possession of the Abbey Library as part of the acquisition of manuscripts by Johann Nepomuk Hauntiger, which took place between 1780 and 1792.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: [Berthold von Regensburg], Die bezaichnunge der hailigen Messe (269-284)
Incipit: Das erste sint die gluͤkken [i.e. glocken] die bezaichnent in der alten E die busuna die man blies
Explicit: jn gottes dienst verbotten ist vnd zebanne sint. Etc.
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Hauntinger, Johann Nepomuk (Former possessor) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Hauntinger, Johann Nepomuk (Former possessor) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This Latin-German miscellany focuses on sermons. It is comprised of five parts of varying formats (Part I: pp. 5–48; Part II: pp. 49–84; Part III: pp. 85–108; Part IV: pp. 109–144; Part V: pp. 145–156), written by varying hands in Gothic minuscule script of varying size. The following constituent works have been identified. Part I transmits the Latin sermons of Berthold von Regensburg, namely four Sermones de dominicis (pp. 5-17, one column) as well as a further Sermo de dominicis, five Sermones de sanctis and a Sermo ad religiosos (pp. 21a-28b, two columns). Part II begins with the sermon Quando hominem… about John 18:1 (pp. 49a–67b, Hamesse 25446). Part III contains five Latin-German sermons alongside a prayer for a Pope Benedict (pp. 98-108). Next, part IV presents the Dialogus Beatae Mariae et Anselmi de passione Domini (pp. 109-124), which was attributed to the Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury in the Middle Ages. The pasteboard binding from the seventeenth or eighteenth century has a white leather cover with doubled scudding decoration as well as two green laces whose ends can still be seen. The table of contents by Pius Kolb has been extended by Ildefons von Arx (p. 1).
Online Since: 09/06/2023
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript likely is from Rhenish Franconia or from the Upper Rhine area and came into the possession of the Abbey of St. Gall in 1699, probably from the Convent of Poor Clares in Freiburg im Breisgau (like, for example, Cod. Sang. 985). The manuscript contains a large number of different sermons and mystical-ascetic texts, especially from the 13th and 14th centuries. Among them are, for instance, the treatise Von der Minne (pp. 7−19) attributed to Johannes Hiltalingen from Basel, the so-called sünde-version of the pseudo-Albert work Paradisus animae (pp. 62−68 and pp. 195−196), ten sermons passed down under the name of Bertold of Regensburg (pp. 70−104), the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer Adonay, gewaltiger herre (pp. 109−192), or the allegory Es ist ein hoher Berg (pp. 211−250) attributed to Johannes Tauler.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Johannes, de Basilea (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript in Northeastern Swiss-Alemannic dialect was probably written for the community of the sisters of St. Georgen above St. Gall; it contains numerous shorter and longer texts by known and unknown authors, among them: pp. 1−106: Thomas à Kempis, 3rd book of the Imitatio Christi; pp. 106−123: Bonaventure, excerpts from the work De triplici via; pp. 124−126: preacher of St. Georgen, sermon Geistliche Blume; pp. 126−134: Meister Eckhart (attributed), treatise Von der Vollkommenheit; pp. 135−166: Johannes Tauler, sermon on Mt 13,8 and other sermon excerpts; pp. 167−181: two anonymous sermons Vom Leiden und Meiden; pp. 184−259: treatise from the “Schwester Katrei"; pp. 259−268 anonymous didactic dialog with Timothy's questions to Paul; pp. 271−372: Johannes of Neumarkt, excerpts from the 3rd so-called Jerome letter; pp. 377−407: Marquard of Lindau, Job-treatise; pp. 409−434 and pp. 472−481 (wrongly bound together by a bookbinder): Das Buch des Lebens by an anonymous author; pp. 435−442: excerpts from Meister Wichwolt (Cronica Alexandri des grossen Königs); pp. 446−448: Ps.-Bertold of Regensburg, Bertold's ten lessons for a spiritual sister. About half of the texts were written by the Reformist monk Friedrich Kölner from Hersfeld, who was active at St. Gall Abbey from 1430 until 1436; the other parts were written in the 15th century by three other hands.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis: s Lehre (446-448) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Johannes, von Neumarkt (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Johannes, von Neumarkt (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Tauler, Johannes (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Additional description
This parchment manuscript contains Latin sermons by Berthold of Regensburg († 1272) in a copy from the second half of the thirteenth century or the first half of the fourteenth century. It begins with the feast of St. Stephen Protomartyr (26 December; p. 1a) and stretches to the feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (29 August; p. 181b). There then follow additional sermons and other texts, including two that bear the titles De passione (p. 197a) and De resurrectione (p. 199b) respectively. On p. 209 the text breaks off at the end of the right column. Then follows on pp. 210a–215a in a larger script what are apparently sermons on the Conversio sancti Pauli (p. 210a) and on the Purificatio beatae Mariae (p. 213a), although both of these feasts already appear in the original part (p. 23b and 31b). In the fourteenth century, another hand wrote a German text in the right column of p. 215 (Wilt du wizzen wie …). According to the note on p. 216, in 1433, the chaplain Jodocus Maiger gave this book to Nicholaus Jeuchin or Jenchin, parish priest of St. Mangen (a church outside of the city of St. Gallen). Worthy of note are the decorative, four-color stitching with a zig-zag pattern on p. 111/112, the pen drawing on p. 150a, as well as the library stamp of Abbot Diethlem Blarer, from the period 1553–1563 on p. 216. The wooden binding probably comes from the fifteenth century.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Blarer von Wartensee, Diethelm (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript was written in a textualis probably in the second half of the thirteenth or the first half of the fourteenth century. The old foliation runs from I to CLXXXIII and from CCLXV to CCLXXX (pencil foliation: 184–209). The current foliation is A–B in pencil and then I–CLXXXIII in red ink, and finally 184–216 in pencil. The table of contents, inserted in the fourteenth century on the last, separate gathering (fol. 211r–214v) uses Roman numerals from I to CCLXXVIII without gaps. This shows that several quires were lost at some point after the production of the table of contents, a fact that was already noted on the table of contents in the fifteenth century with “vacat”. The surviving leaves transmit, in the first place, sermons of Berthold of Regensburg († 1272) on Sundays and the Feasts of Saints (fol. Ir–CLXXIIIIv) and then – owing to the mentioned loss of leaves – only the end of his sermon on the common of saints (fol. 184r–184v). In between and afterwards are other sermons (Sermones ad religiosos, Sermones ad speciales) or spiritual texts by the same hand, although at the end (fol. 209r–210r) by another hand. According to the table of contents, there follow (fol. 214r–215v) further entries, probably from the fourteenth century, including a few in the German language. According to the ownership mark Liber sancti Galli on fol. Br, the codex was in the Abbey of St. Gall in the fifteenth century at the latest.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
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