Innocentius III, Papa (1160-1216)
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
- 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 small-format parchment volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is composed of three originally separate fascicles. The first is decorated with three initials (1r, 53r, 58r) and contains the Stimulus dilectionis by Eckbert of Schönau along with prayers, Penitential Psalms and a Litany of the Saints. This is followed by the fragment of a prayer book, which is missing the beginning as well as the end. The third part contains a compilation from Bonaventure's Soliloquium and Hugh of St. Victor's De vanitate mundi. The heavy soiling of pp. 24-53 (Agenda defunctorum and Penitential Psalms) should be noted; it indicates intensive use of this part of the codex.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Innocentius III, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Innocentius III, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Ecbertus, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Johannes, Fiscannensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Urban V., Papst (Author) | Vullenhoe, Heinrich von (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
The Latin part of this fragment (f. 1r–3r) contains a collection of excerpts from various authors regarding sins and penance, morals, etc. The French part (f. 3v–4v) contains one or two poem(s) in verse, which seem to have survived only in this fragment.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Abdias, Babylonius (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Defensor, Locogiacensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a collection of letters exchanged in the court circle of Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is generally attributed to Petrus de Vinea (Chancellor of Friedrich II.; ca. 1200-1249). This collection has been reproduced in over 230 manuscripts and was long regarded as a model for writers because of the elegant language used in the letters. The role of the collection as a model is enhanced in CB 132 by the inclusion of a copy of the "Ars dictaminis" by Bovilius Aretinus.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Bonfilius, Aretinus (Author) | Charles, d'Anjou, I (Author) | Clemens IV, Papa (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Mazzei, Lapo (Former possessor) | Petrus, de Vinea (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript produced at the end of the 13th century contains a copy of the Arthurian romance tales in prose: "Estoire del Graal", "Merlin", "Suite Merlin", "Queste del saint Graal", and "Mort le roi Artu". The interpolations used in CB 147 make it a particularly unusual manuscript: the heroes of the Arthurian tales are made to utter translations of the Gospels, Genesis, and various other biblical texts as well as sermons by Maurice de Sully. The manuscript also contains the "Faits de Romains", and a prose version of the "Roman de Troie" not found elsewhere. The plentiful illuminations are executed in a highly unusual style.
Online Since: 07/25/2006
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Mauritius, de Sulliaco (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a treatise on penitence in German. It is dated April 25th 1453 (f. 72r). The guardleaves consist of fragments from the Prima collectio decretalium Innocentii III by Rainerius of Pomposa.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Reinerus, Pomposanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Reinerus, Pomposanus (Author) Found in: Additional description
The volume was copied by several fourteenth-century hands. Its contents were either planned to be more extensive or it is not completely preserved. A summary of contents on p. 3, as well as a slip of paper glued to the front cover with a post-medieval table of contents list seven parts, of which, however, only four are present: excerpts from the lives of the Monastic Fathers in two parts (pp. 3–28 and 28–53), excerpts from Gregory the Great's life of St. Benedict (pp. 53–79), and excerpts from the Purgatorium Patricii (pp. 80–91). An index of these four parts can be found on pp. 92–95, followed by two sermons of Pope Innocent III (pp. 96–111) and passages from other sermons (pp. 111–114). On the front and back parchment flyleaves appear numerous notes and ownership entries of different sorts, dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. According to them, in the fifteenth century, the book belonged to the Leper chapel of St. Gallen. The medieval half-leather binding was reused in the seventeenth century for a new binding.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) Found in: Additional description
The paper manuscript, bound with a limp binding, is composed of four parts written in the first half of the fifteenth century. Parts II and IV are probably to be ascribed to the hand of Johannes de Nepomuk, who came from the Cistercian house of Nepomuk in Bohemia. The manuscript probably reached the Abbey of St. Gall by the middle of the fifteenth century at the latest. It contains Latin sermons, spiritual treatises, and documents pertaining to the Council of Constance in the years 1417–1418.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aelred, von Rievaulx, Abt (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Conradus, de Brundelsheim (Author) | David, de Augusta (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Michael, de Massa (Author) | Valerianus, Cemenelensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This small-format manuscript contains for the most part sermons (pp. 3–49). They have been numbered (1–39) in the margin by a later hand, which also wrote the title Sermones de tempore and the ownership mark Liber s. Galli on p. 3. According to Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150–1350, II.766 und IV.49 and Hamesse, Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, No. 31477, the authors of these sermons include Lothario dei Segni (Innocent III), Hugh of Saint-Cher, and Nicholaus de Gorran. A wide range of texts follows on p. 49: seven short letters or letter formularies on pp. 49–51 (including from the Abbot of Isny to the Abbot of Blaubeuren, from the Duke of Bavaria to two bailiffs, from parents to their son, studying in Padua, and from the student to his parents); mnemonic aids on the Eucharist, the duties of a confessor, the seven sacraments, etc. (p. 51); an additional sermon (p. 52) (by Lucas de Bitonto; Schneyer, Repertorium, IV.56, No. 88); the Fifteen Portents of the Last Judgment (p. 53); Odo of Cheriton's Parabola De rustico et eius domino (p. 54); a Tractatus naturalis, inc: Cum alterius nature sit truncus, alterius surculus (pp. 55–62); a commentary on Aristotle's De anima, inc: Bonorum honorabilium noticiam [...] subiectum huius libri de anima est anima prout est coniuncta corpori (p. 63-77). The manuscript, bereft of ornamentation, is bound in an early-modern cardboard binding that has been covered in fragments of a printed missal.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Aristoteles (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Caro (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Lucas, de Bitonto (Author) | Nicolaus, de Gorra (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) Found in: Standard description