Sieber, Ludwig (1833-1891)
These 14 leaves were removed from a composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel around the end of the 19th century. The 11 colored woodcuts with the respective handwritten text transmit a German Ars moriendi, a type of text on the art of dying well that was very popular during the late Middle Ages.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
This undecorated paper volume from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains theological Disputationes or Quaestiones by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide. These discussions, which, according to a note on folio 1r, took place in Paris in the presence and at the instigation of Heynlin, were copied by different hands, including that of Heynlin himself.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
15th century devotional volume, mostly written by the Carthusian Johannes Gipsmüller and owned by the Carthusian monastery of Basel. On the verso side of a parchment leaf, inserted as f. 57 into the paper manuscript, there is a full-page image of Christ on the cross with Mary and John. A peculiarity is a collection of Bible passages in Latin and sayings in German by Petrus Wolfer, which are said to have been written on a wall of the Carthusian monastery, surrounding a crucifixion.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Gipsmüller, Johannes (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Scribe) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Henricus, de Calcar (Author) | Iordanus, de Quedlinburgo (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Sieber, Ludwig (Annotator) | Wolfer, Peter (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains two Middle French poems from Les Pèlerinages by Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-1360). This religious-allegorical work treats the literary topos Homo viator, man on a (spiritual) journey. The origin of the first owner, the rubricator and perhaps also the scribe of the manuscript, Petrus Guioti, suggests that the manuscript originated in the Loire region. The work was owned by the art collector and painter Peter Vischer-Passavant (1779-1851); in 1823 it became part of the Basel University Library.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Guillaume, de Déguileville (Author) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Vischer, Peter (Former possessor) | Vischer, Peter (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Missal for the Diocese of Basel, created around 1460. This richly illustrated volume was part of a donation by the widow Margaretha Brand († 1474) to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. It was used at the altar of the holy Virgin in the small cloister of the Carthusian Monastery. In terms of art history, the manuscript can be assigned to the "Vullenhoe-Gruppe."
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Margaretha, Brand (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This Gospel Book, written in an accurate Carolingian book hand, was probably created in the Marmoutier abbey by Tours. It features richly decorated initials and artistically designed frames for the canon tables. The manuscript was a gift to the Carthusians of Basel from the former dean of Rheinfeld, Antonius Rüstmann, in 1439.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Brower, Adolf (Annotator) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Rüstmann, Antonius (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This small-format composite manuscript contains numerous pieces of mysticism, such as sermons, treatises (excerpts), instructions and sayings by, among others, Meister Eckhart, Heinrich von Ekkewint and Johannes von Sterngassen. The volume was written by two different hands; the first of these complains in red ink on f. 379r that anyone unable to write could have no idea how torturous such work is. A note of ownership by abbey librarian Georg Carpentarius (around 1487-1531) and the old shelfmark E xxvi associates the manuscript with the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. As most of the German-language manuscripts at the monastery, it was part of the lay brothers' library.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Eckhart, Meister (Author) | Franke, Johannes (Author) | Heinrich, von Ekkewint (Author) | Johannes, de Sterngassen (Author) | Johannes, von Weißenburg (Author) | Kraft, von Boyberg (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript was written by Johannes Heynlin during his time in Paris between 1469 and 1471. It contains three "classic works for education", the (annotated) Bucolics, the Georgics, and the Aeneid by Virgil, as well as a whole series of pseudo-Virgilian works. The volume is finely decorated with figural initials from a Parisian studio with scenes from Virgil's works. The manuscript was probably bound in Basel, perhaps at the instigation of the Carthusian monastery, into whose possession it came when Heynlin entered the monastery.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Huber, Daniel (Librarian) | Johannes, Andreas (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Molitoris, Nicolaus (Librarian) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Sulpicius Apollinaris, Gaius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
One of the Isidore codices from the Monastery of Fulda; the codex escaped destruction because it reached Basel during the 16th century, before the abduction and destruction of the library during the Thirty Years' War. There it apparently was to serve as a textual source for a planned edition of Isidore's works. In Fulda, it originated by merging an 8th century Northern English manuscript with a continental-insular text from the first half of the 9th century, probably written in Fulda. The codex retains its Carolingian binding in a parchment cover. To the extent that the texts contained therein are critically edited, the codex is considered among important textual witnesses.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Henricpetri, Sebastian (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Knöttel, Johann (Librarian) | Petri, Heinrich (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript with the Middle High German epic poem "Laurin" about Dietrich of Bern came to the Basel University Library in a truly adventurous manner. As the head librarian Ludwig Sieber (1833-1891) himself notes in the manuscript, the codex was found on the banks of the Rhine in Basel in 1878. It was then donated to the university library by Ludwig Sieber and his predecessor Wilhelm Vischer (head librarian 1867-1871). The place of discovery left its mark on the manuscript: In parts, the paper and binding are very damaged and fragile and show water damage in various places, especially at the edges of the leaves. The text, however, is still very legible, although incompletely preserved. Fragments of documents in the binding and the pen-and-ink drawing of a flag with a Basel staff make a reference to Basel as a possible place of origin.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig () Found in: Standard description
- Burckhardt, Max (Librarian) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Vischer, Wilhelm (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
These twelve leaves are what have survived from a large-format gradual that was produced around 1460 in the Upper Rhine region (probably in Basel); they contain chants for the mass, changing according to the liturgical year. The decoration with initials and miniatures (e.g., the birth of Christ, the entry into Jerusalem, or the depiction of the resurrection) refer to the respective liturgical holiday, whereas the initial for Ecce advenit dominator dominus wrongly depicts the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Its decoration places this gradual in the later circle of the so-called “Vullenhoe-group”.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
- Sieber, Ludwig (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil, city clerk of Basel, owned a large collection of incunabula of mostly German entertainment literature and himself copied a number of manuscripts, such as this Melusine by Thüring von Ringoltingen in 1471. The paper manuscript contains 38 colored pen and ink drawings, which apparently are by two different painters. Because sheets were lost, the current text has gaps; it is unclear whether illustrations were lost as well.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Huber, Daniel (Librarian) | Niklaus, Meyer zum Pfeil (Scribe) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Thüring, von Ringoltingen (Author) Found in: Standard description
The 'twin codex' of Cod. 250 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern was produced in Fulda. It remains unclear when and how this mathematical manuscript reached Bern. It seems to have left Fulda in the 10th century at the latest, as suggested by the hands of the added texts.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Faesch, Remigius (Former possessor) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small cardboard volume from the Remigius Faesch Museum combines two fragments of German poetry. The first poem, the Sibyllen Weissagung, dates from the middle of the 14th century and was widely read until the 16th century. It is about the prophetess Sibyl, who visited King Solomon and prophesied the whole future to him until the end of days. The second text, Schondoch's Königin von Frankreich, is about the faithful love of his eponymous heroine, who is accused of adultery by a rejected court marshal and is cast out. It belongs to the genus "Märe" (fable) and is extremely widespread with 21 preserved manuscripts.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Schondoch (Author) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description