Nider, Johannes (ca. 1380-1438)
This composite manuscript, property of the scholar and Carthusian monk Johannes Heynlin from Basel, consists of various handwritten and printed pieces of theological content: among them the treatise De saecularium religionibus by the Dominican and church reformer Johannes Nider, written in 1465 by a French scribe and annotated in the margin by Heynlin; or the text De miseria humanae conditionis by Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, one of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance. After Heynlin's death, the volume became part of the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Albertanus, Brixiensis (Author) | Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Nider, Johannes (Author) | Palatius, Arnoldus de (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript, comprising originally separate parts from the holdings of St. Leonhard Monastery in Basel, contains, among others, texts by Hugh of Saint Victor and Thomas à Kempis. Among the volume's shorter pieces are two German texts (“Fünf Mittel gegen die Ungeduld” and “Zwölf Zeichen der Minne”), as well as three small glossaries: one Hebrew-Latin, one Greek-Latin and one Latin-German. The intact thorn-clasp on the coeval binding is also noteworthy.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Johannes, Burkardi (Scribe) | Johannes, Guallensis (Author) | Nider, Johannes (Author) | Otloh, de Sancto Emmeramo (Author) | Petrus, Aureoli (Author) | Petrus, de Braco (Author) | Richardus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) Found in: Standard description
Texts in German, written in the middle of the 15th century, for use in the nuns' convent of Maria Magdalena in den Steinen in Basel. Later the book belonged to Olsberg Abbey. It contains spiritual texts by various authors, also sermons for Sundays and holidays, as well as legends of the saints. Mariastein Abbey acquired the book at a Basel auction around 1820. The sermon for the Assumption of Mary on Fol. 194r-198v can be found in a printed version in ZSKG 4, 1910, pp. 205-212 or 207-212, based on a copy therefrom by P. Anselm Dietler of Mariastein (died 1864).
Online Since: 06/22/2017
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- Erbe, Bruder (Author) | Florentius, von Utrecht (Author) | Gerardus, Leodiensis, OCist (Author) | Hermann, von Loveia (Author) | Nider, Johannes (Author) | Theodoricus, de Apolda (Author) Found in: Standard description
This volume contains the Manuale confessorumby the Dominican Monk Johannes Nider, born in Isny and later active in Nuremberg and Vienna (p. 3-124), the work De generatione et corruptione by Albertus Magnus, also known under the title Problemata Aristotelis (p. 129-168), the second Book of Aristotle's Physics In librum secundum physicorum (p. 169-212), the treatise De constellacione [siderum] in nativitate (p. 212-213), the late medieval collection of anecdotes and tales Gesta Romanorum (p. 258-453). The text on pages 129-213 is dated to 1459; pages 259-453 were completed on 30 August 1402 by the copyist Konrad Heinrich von Tettnang.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
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This extensive prayer book, probably completed over time by a single hand, contains a treatise on the canonical hours (pp. 34–224) as well as a Marian office (the German version of the Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis, pp. 225–343). These are accompanied by sermons and shorter treatises: at the beginning, texts on the sufferings of Christ, structured according to the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer (pp. 1–33, the first page is missing); at the end of the manuscript appear the short treatise Von der seligen Dorfmagd (pp. 344–346), a fragmentary treatise on the twelve virtues of the sacraments (pp. 347–352), a sermon by Johannes Nider (pp. 352–362), another sermon (In unser Capel die erst bredig von gehorsami, p. 363–384), as well as shorter texts and textual fragments (pp. 385–396). A late-medieval entry (p. 390) gives a name (das buch hadt hanns petris auch ze len). Fifteenth-century red-leather binding, detached bosses, and missing clasps; the hand-marbled pastedowns attest to a modern restoration.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
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