Miscellany volume assembled and supplied with catchwords by Friedrich von Amberg (Guardian of the Fribourg Franciscan Convent, † 1432) from different parts that were produced independently. The volume, divided into ten parts, contains in addition to preaching materials excerpts from William Peraldus's Summa de vitiis (Part 4), Ludolph of Saxony's Rationes XIV ad proficiendum in virtute (Part 5), Francis of Meyronnes's Moralia (Part 7), and Engelbert of Cologne's Sermones de sanctis (Part 10). The parchment pastedowns and flyleaves are from a fifteenth-century testament, probably to the benefit of the Franciscans. Several parchment quire guards in present, among which appear fragments of a thirteenth/fourteenth century commented manuscript, a fourteenth-century grammatical treatise, and a charter from the fourteenth century. The manuscript has a chained binding, covered in heavily worn leather, and restored in 2021. (cam)

Online Since: 12/11/2025

This volume contains St. Bonaventure's Legenda maior of St. Francis, the Vita beati Antonii and two documents regarding the Portiuncula indulgence. The manuscript was written by Elisabeth von Amberg (ff. 1-127) and Katherina von Purchausen (ff. 129-176) in the year 1337. It is decorated with an initial portraying St. Francis as a knight (f. 4r) and a vignette showing the bestowal of the Stigmata (f. 77v). The appearance of the name of St. Clara in the text suggests that the codex was written in a cloister of the Poor Clares, perhaps the Paradise. It came into the posession of the Capuchin cloister in Frauenfeld at the beginning of the 17th century and has been held in the provincial archive of the Capuchins in Lucerne since 1848. (ber)

Online Since: 03/31/2011