Johannes, Hildesheimensis (ca. 1315 - ca. 1375)
This manuscript was the property of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; in a German translation, it transmits the legend of the Three Magi by John of Hildesheim, the legends of the Desert Fathers known as the “Vitaspatrum“ and the Athanasian Creed.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Johannes, Hildesheimensis: ; Alemannische Vitaspatrum Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, Hildesheimensis: Historia trium regnum (1r-73r)
Incipit: // das gelopt lande und sy daz land allenthalb betzwungen hatten, das sich nieman wider sy getorst gesetzen
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This manuscript contains the Historia trium regum by John of Hildesheim in a High Alemannic translation. It dates to the first quarter of the 15th century and still retains its original binding. In the beginning and after leaf 8, parts of the text are missing.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
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- Johannes, Hildesheimensis: Historia trium regum. (1r–75v)
Incipit: Capitulum primum. Lob und ere und wirdikeit der heiliger dryer küng
Explicit: 75rgnedlichen gestellet werdest zuͦ der rechten hand. Dise wort glich als sy lutten und vorgeschriben statt vindet man geschriben in allen kriechen in India die cristen sind zuͦ lattin und gerümet.
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The paper manuscript was copied in a rapid cursive by Friedrich Kölner during his stay at the monastery of St. Gall between 1430 and 1436. It contains first the lives of the Apostles in the German translation of the summer part of the Golden Legend (pp. 6-269). There then follow, also in German, the sermon Von den Zeichen der Messe, composed by the Franciscan Berthold of Regensburg (pp. 269-284), Die Legende von den Heiligen Drei Königen, composed by Johannes von Hildesheim (pp. 284-389), a Pilatus-Veronika-Legende (pp. 389-400), a Greisenklage (pp. 400-402), and finally the Fünfzehn Vorzeichen des Jüngsten Gerichts (pp. 402-403). According to Cod. Sang. 1285, p. 11, the manuscript entered the possession of the Abbey Library as part of the acquisition of manuscripts by Johann Nepomuk Hauntiger, which took place between 1780 and 1792.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Johannes, Hildesheimensis: [Johannes von Hildesheim], Leben der hailigen dry kungen (284-389) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Hauntinger, Johann Nepomuk (Former possessor) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Bertholdus, Ratisbonensis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Friedrich, Kölner (Scribe) | Hauntinger, Johann Nepomuk (Former possessor) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
The largest part of this voluminous manuscript consists of an abbreviated version of the Universal Chronicle of Platterberg/Truchseß, completed in 1459 (pp. 3−796), which in the older literature is also referred to as the “St. Gall Universal Chronicle.” This chronicle also contains the so-called St. Galler Cato (pp. 259−260; Disticha Catonis; Von Catho dem weysen und seinen spruchen), a partial German translation of the work De officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero (pp. 263−265); as well as more quotations from other works by Cicero (pp. 265−271). Next are a German version of the fictional correspondence between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, King of the Brahmins, written by Meister Wichwolt (pp. 809−815); Cronica Allexandri des grossen konigs), the German version of the History of the Three Kings (Historia trium regum) by John of Hildesheim (pp. 816−854); and the report about Jean de Mandeville's travel to India in the German translation by Otto von Diemeringen (pp. 854−917). At the end (pp. 918−940), the volume contains an incomplete version of the travelogue of Johannes Schiltberger (1380 – after 1427) from Bavaria, who had been taken captive by the Ottomans. The book decoration consists of numerous red and blue Lombard initials. In 1570, the volume was owned by Luzius Rinck von Baldenstein (p. 940), brother-in-law of Prince-Abbot Diethelm-Blarer (1530-1564) of St. Gall; at the latest by the 17th century, the volume became part of the holdings of the monastery library of St. Gall (p. 3: Liber Monasterii S. Galli).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Johannes, Hildesheimensis: Legende von den drei Königen, nach Johannes von Hildesheim (816a-854a)
Incipit: Nach dem vnd die kinder von israhel gingen aus Egypten vnd in vnterthenig machten Jerusalem vnd vil ander land
Explicit: der do geborn was zu erlosen alles menschlich geslecht.
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains three substantial treatises in German. At the beginning there is the life of Archbishop Johannes of Alexandria (pp. 5−83), written by Anastasius Bibliothecarius. It is followed by the edifying treatise Die vierundzwanzig Alten oder der goldene Thron der minnenden Seele by Otto of Passau (pp. 87−544) and the History of the Three Kings (Historia trium regum) by John of Hildesheim (pp. 546−602). The treatise by Otto of Passau is illustrated with 25 colored pen and ink drawings, outlined in red and extending the width of the column. The History of the Three Kings begins with a full-page miniature (p. 546), which shows the three Magi visiting the infant Jesus. The scribe and the illustrators of this manuscript, which possibly originated in the circle of the community of lay brothers of St. Gall, are unknown; stylistic characteristics suggest the Konstanz book illumination of Rudolf Stahel. The manuscript is dated to the year 1454 in three places (p. 93 as an inscription in a picture; p. 544; p. 602). In the 15th century the manuscript was the property of the community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall (who did not know Latin); in 1618 the manuscript was still in the library of the community of lay brothers. At least since 1755 it has been attested in the main library of St. Gall Abbey.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Anastasius, Bibliothecarius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | Leontius, Neapolitanus (Author) | Otto, von Passau (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anastasius, Bibliothecarius: Anastasius Bibliothecarius/Leontios a Neapoli, Vita Johannis patriarchae Alexandrini, p. 5a-83a; Otto von Passau, Die fier vnd zwaintzig alten, p. 90a-544a; Johannes von Hildesheim, Liber de tribus regibus (deutsch), p. 546/547a-602a. (p. 5a-83a) Found in: Additional description
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- Anastasius, Bibliothecarius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | Leontius, Neapolitanus (Author) | Otto, von Passau (Author) Found in: Additional description