Ephraem, Syrus (306-373)
The Physiologus is an early Christian collection of naturalistic and allegorical descriptions from which the medieval beastiaries are derived. Bern Cod. 318, which originated in the School of Rheims, contains, in addition to the Physiologus (fol. 7r-22v), the life of St. Simeon (fol. 1r-5r), the so-called “Chronicle of Fredegar” (fol. 23r-125r) as well as a pericope from the Gospel of Matthew with Latin translation by Ephraem of Syria (fol. 125v-130r). Owners of the manuscript included the humanists Pierre Daniel and Jacques Bongars, among whose library holdings this manuscript came to Bern in 1632.
Online Since: 07/04/2012
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This copy of the Lives of the Saints, produced during the 12th century, possibly in the German Cloister of Weissenau, is decorated with ornately detailed and illustrated initial capitals, including one notable initial in which the illuminator, "Fr. Ruffilus" includes himself (fol. 244r).
Online Since: 05/20/2009
- Adrevaldus, Floriacensis (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Amphilochius, Cappadox (Author) | Amphilochius, Sidetes (Author) | Antonius, Hagiographus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cogitosus (Author) | Eberwinus, Treverensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Goswinus, Moguntinensis (Author) | Iacobus, Diaconus (Author) | Iocundus, Presbyter (Author) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) | Odo, Fossatensis (Author) | Otloh, de Sancto Emmeramo (Author) | Paulinus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pseudo-Goldscherus Trevirensis (Author) | Theodoricus, Floriacensis (Author) | Uranius, Presbyter (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Wibertus, Tullensis (Author) | Zacharias, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24) was written by various unskilled hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to the 8th/9th century and localized in a scriptorium in northern Italy or in Switzerland. The second part (25-140) is dated to the second third of the 9th century.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Eligius, Noviomensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains on V3-7r the Sermo acephalus de iudicio and on 7r-43r the Monita of the Church Doctor Ephraim the Syrian (ca. 306-373). The first two pages have been torn out, but the inner margin can still be seen, including a small red initial on V5. The main text on 7r begins with a red decorated initial and runner motifs. The numerous, frequently changing hands differ greatly from each other in line ruling and appearance. The design and construction of the manuscript correspond to the Engelberg scriptorium under Abbots Frowin (1143-1178) and Berchtold (1178-1197).
Online Since: 10/04/2011
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Copies of various works by the church father Ephraem the Syrian in Latin, written in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century. Among them are the works De iudicio dei et resurrectione, De beatitudine animae, De poenitentia, De luctaminibus and De die iudicii et monita. The leaves of the last portion of the manuscript, which contains Sermon 60 of Caesarius of Arles, were previously folded.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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Copies of assorted shorter sermons in Latin by Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), some of them incomplete, including De compunctione cordis, De iudiciis dei and De beatitudine animarum, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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Manuscript collection produced at the monastery of St. Gall, containing the oldest known surviving version of the Casus sancti Galli by the monk Ratpert, in a copy from about 900. Additional longer texts, written down between the 9th and 13th centuries contain sermons by the early Church fathers, a register of the abbots of St. Gall from the 7th through the 13th centuries, hymns, and excerpts from the Collectio Canonum by Pseudo-Remedius as well as the Micrologus by Bernold of Konstanz.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
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- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ambrosius, Autpertus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Annotator) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Remedius, Curiensis (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) Found in: Standard description