Petrus Alfonsi (1057-1130)
Two bifolia from a manuscript produced in France and containing the last part of Petrus Alphonsi's Disciplina clericalis. In 1632, it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Petrus Alfonsi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Petrus Alfonsi (Author) Found in: Standard description
This extensive volume was copied at the turn of the thirteenth to fourteenth century by a single hand with a somewhat varying ductus. It contains a thematically ordered compilation of short examples and observations on virtues and vices (pp. 3–658) that may have been taken from Etienne de Bourbon or Humbertus de Romanis. This summa is made accessible by an index (pp. 659–661), written in a later hand, which hand also completed the foliation. The manuscript is rubricated throughout and contains two-line red and blue lombards. On the front flyleaf can be found a fragment of a charter from 1295. The red-leather binding has the remains of a medieval clasp.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Humbertus, de Romanis (Author) | Jakob, von Vitry (Author) | Petrus Alfonsi (Author) | Stephanus, de Borbone (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Humbertus, de Romanis (Author) | Jakob, von Vitry (Author) | Petrus Alfonsi (Author) | Stephanus, de Borbone (Author) Found in: Additional description
The present Codex contains the complete text of the Dialogus (ca. 1110–1120) of Petrus Alfonsi, a converted Jew from Huesca (since 1096 Kingdom of Aragon). The Dialogus is a polemic and apologetic work, introducing (for the time) innovative, in view of the author «rational» argumentation against Jewish religion and Islam. The work spread quickly and had significant influence on Christian polemics especially in the 13th and 14th century.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
- Petrus Alfonsi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Petrus Alfonsi (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Heidegger, Johann Heinrich (Former possessor) | Hottinger, Johann Jakob (Former possessor) | Johannes, de Orsna (Former possessor) | Petrus Alfonsi (Author) | Rottendorff, Bernhard (Former possessor) | Scheuchzer, Johann (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heidegger, Johann Heinrich (Former possessor) | Hottinger, Johann Jakob (Former possessor) | Johannes, de Orsna (Former possessor) | Petrus Alfonsi (Author) | Rottendorff, Bernhard (Former possessor) | Scheuchzer, Johann (Librarian) Found in: Additional description