Damasus I, Papa (305-384)
This early 14th century manuscript was copied in Italy; it brings together Ovid's Ars amatoria (The Art of Love), two books of Priscian's grammar, excerpts from the Secretum secretorum, an incomplete book on physiognomy by an unknown author, as well as a series of hymns attributed to, among others, Gregory the Great, St. Ambrose or Sedulius. The manuscript, which is missing two leaves at the beginning, shows old signs of use, with commentaries and maniculae added in the margins. This copy has no decoration with the exception of several red and mauve pen-flourish initials, highlighted in gold and framed.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
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- Ambrosianus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Paulinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Philippus, Tripolitanus (Translator) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Standard description
In the foreword to CB 142, Prudentius underscores his desire to please God through the work he does, or at least though his poems. The most important works of this Latin-Christian poet, born in the 4th century in Tarragona, have been collected in this manuscript from the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century, and they reflect the light of the word of God. One may read here, among other things, the famous Psychomachia, which portrays the struggle between the allegorical figures of vice and virtue, a lesson that had a profound influence upon medieval art and poetry.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) 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
Copies of 40 letters written by the church father Jerome, set down by a number of different scribes in the Cloister of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century in Carolingian minuscule script. Annotated in the 11th century with rich interlinear and marginal commentaries by the monk Ekkehart IV († about 1060). This codex also contains the homilies of Origen on Jerome's Latin translation of the Song of Songs as well as the work De anima by Cassiodorus.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Translator) | Oceanus, Presbyter (Author) | Origenes (Author) | Pammachius (Author) Found in: Standard description
A manuscript compilation produced outside of St. Gall in about 800, written and illuminated unusually colorfully with numerous small initials, possibly at the Cloister of St. Denis near Paris. It consists of a large number of texts and excerpts, especially from the works of Isidore of Seville (Liber Sententiarum, Liber Differentiarum, Etymologiae), but also including texts by Augustine, Caesarius of Arles, Defensor (Liber scintillarum), Jerome, Gregory the Great, Eucherius (Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae) and many other authors. Near the end is an incomplete copy of the life story of St. Dionysius.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Defensor, Locogiacensis (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gelasius I., Papst (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A patristic manuscript of unknown provenance from the first half of the 9th century. It contains the Liber Testimoniorum by Paterius, letters exchanged between Jerome and Damasus, selections from the homilies of Augustine on the Gospel of John, the Athanasian Creed with exegesis, and an exegesis of the Our Father.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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Manuscript compilation consisting mainly of works of liturgical and pastoral character, produced between 845 and 870 in the monastery of St. Gall. It contains, among other items, a liturgical study by Abbot Walahfrid Strabo of Reichenau (808/09-849) Liber de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum, the first western European reference work on liturgical history, the so called Ordines Romani, a liturgical study by Amalar of Trier, the first Capitular of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, two treatises about baptism and the mass attributed to Alcuin as well as the Capitular documents (diocesan legislative documents) of Haito, Bishop of Basel and Abbot of Reichenau.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
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- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description