Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (ca. 1180-1240)
This manuscript is part of the holdings of the Carthusian monastery of Basel, to which it came as a gift from a former dean of Rheinfeld, Antonius Rütschmann. It contains mainly Gregory the Great 's Homiliae in evangelia and the first two books of the Libri miraculorum by Caesarius of Heisterbach, as well as sermons and excerpts by Johannes of Freiburg, Johannes of Mülberg, and Jordan of Quedlinburg.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Libri miraculorum I. et II. (ex VIII) (131r-155v)
Incipit: Qui infirmus est olera manducet. Fragmentis pulmentum adiiciendum est quo Christi reficiantur pauperes. Confessus in professione [am Rand korrigiert zu perfectione] decalogi qui per meum
Explicit: et virgo cecidit cuius stultitie atque vesanie pius dominus parcens non se percutientem repercussit.
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- Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Johannes, de Friburgo (Author) | Mulberg, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
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
- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: De episcopis Alemanniae satis terribile (73v)
Incipit: Cesarius in dyalogo suo distinccione secunda cap. xxix [richtig: xxvii]. Clericus quidam Parisius ante annos paucos verbum terribile contra episcopos locutus est
Explicit: unus homo tot animas regere posset sine periculo.
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- 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 manuscript, written mostly in German, consists of various parts, all of which probably date from the same time, the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century. This codex belonged to the library of the lay brothers of the Carthusian monastery in Basel and may have been written, at least in part, in this same monastery. Among the texts in this devotional book are the exemplum of the pious [female] miller, the “Guten-Morgen-Exempel” often attributed to Meister Eckhart, a recounting of the history of the Carthusian order, as well as various sermons, prayers, sayings and exempla.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Gedanken eines Konversen bei der Tischlesung (lateinisches Exempel) (100r)
Incipit: Quidam conversus quadam die requisitus a priore suo quid in mensa cogitaret eo quod leccionem mense non intelligeret. Respondit ille
Explicit: Talis inquid est leccio mea cottidiana.
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- Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Conradus, Marburgensis (Author) | Engelhart, von Ebrach (Author) | Freidank (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Platon (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript originally consisted of at least two books, as can still be seen from the separate original foliation. The first part was written in the 13th century by several very similar hands; it contains numerous sermons, among others some by Gilbertus Tornacensis and Bonaventure. The second part, written by a main hand from the 14th century, contains a vast collection of exempla of various origins. This plain manuscript belonged to the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, as confirmed by numerous notes of ownership, two old title labels and various old shelfmarks.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: De Beatrice (100v-101r)
Incipit: In monasterio quodam monialium fuit virgo speciosa Beatrix nomine
Explicit: circa se gesta manifestans
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: De utilitate confessionis (109v)
Incipit: Magister Thomas theologus in morte vidit dyabolum
Explicit: predicator exspiravit
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (116v-122v)
Incipit: Ludewicus langravius Thoringie cum esset tyrannus [-ra- von anderer Hand über der Zeile]
Explicit: ecclesia fabricata est
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exempla (123r-124v)
Incipit: Miles quidam Heinricus nomine de castro Falkilnstein oriundus
Explicit: a laco [sic pro: loco] recedens monacho se fecit
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (125r-138r)
Incipit: In Susacia civitate dyoc. Coloniensis quidam Dyemo nomine habitabat
Explicit: crucem suscepit et transfretavit.
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exempla (139v-147r)
Incipit: Sacerdos quidam in provincia Francie
Explicit: non possum bene velle
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (152v-153v)
Incipit: Miles quidam erat cui quidam iuvenis serviebat
Explicit: que circa se sunt gesta
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (154r-v)
Incipit: Sacerdos quidam vir religiosus dum quadam die sollempni circuiret ecclesiam
Explicit: exemplum humilitatis dedit
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (155r-156r)
Incipit: In dyoc. Coloniensi miles quidam erat. Sic totus vino deditus
Explicit: graciam in venissem
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (158r)
Incipit: Quidam senex hereditatem filio suo sedit [sic pro: dedit]
Explicit: dare patri tuo
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exemplum (161v-162r)
Incipit: In civitate Argentinensi .X. heretici deprehensi sunt
Explicit: penitus ignorabant
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Exempla (162v-168r)
Incipit: Monachus quidam vite venerabilis
Explicit: socii illius de evasione sua hortabantur.
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- Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gilbertus, Tornacensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Saresberiensis (Author) | Moser, Urban (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This miscellany was assembled by Friedrich von Amberg (Guardian of the Franciscan Convent of Fribourg, † 1432) from various earlier compilations and text fragments. The volume, divided into eight parts, has an extensive collection of exempla (Part 1), excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum (Parts 3, 4, 5 und 6), from the De cognicione of Helinand of Froidmont (Part 2), from Robert Holcot's Moralitates (Part 6), from Hugh of Folieto's De avibus (Part 7) and Nicholas of Hanapis‘ Liber de exemplis Sacrae scripturae (Part 8). The back cover and flyleaf contain a large part of a Fribourg charter. The formerly chained volume with a white-leather cover was restored in 2021 by Carole Jeanneret.
Online Since: 12/20/2023
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- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Annotator) | Fridericus, de Amberg (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hélinant, de Froidmont (Author) | Hugo, de Folieto (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Caro (Author) | Nicolaus, de Hanapis (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Standard description
This extensive manuscript miscellany was written by the secular priest Matthias Bürer. According to the numerous colophons, he finished the copies of the texts in the period from ca. 1448 to 1463 in Kenzingen (Baden-Württemberg) and in many places in Tyrol. The manuscript transmits among other things several theological treatises, a confessors' manual, two mirrors of confession, an ars moriendi (“the art of dying”), the Acts of the Apostles with the Glossa ordinaria, sermons, as well as Books II–IV of Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues. After the death of Matthias Bürer in 1485, the manuscript went, along with other books, to the Abbey of St. Gall, in accordance with a 1470 agreement.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Caesarius, Heisterbacensis: Dialogus miraculorum (Exzerpte) (212a) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Additional description