Mechthild, von Magedeburg (ca. 1207-1282)
This small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have been intensely used, as suggested by soiling and signs of heavy usage. The original red leather binding is covered with another layer of leather that sticks out beyond the covers at the bottom and can be folded over the lower edge as protection. The manuscript contains prayers, hymns and other devotional texts by numerous different authors — primarily saints and popes — such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Bernard of Clairvaux. Also represented are Carthusian authors such as Heinrich Arnoldi. Several colored woodcut and metalcut prints have been glued onto leaf 4v and 316v.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Benedictus XII, Papa (Author) | Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Bernardinus, Senensis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Bonifatius IX., Papst (Author) | Coelestinus V., Papa (Author) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Innocentius IV, Papa (Author) | Johannes XXII., Papst (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Thomas, Becket (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript (third quarter of the 15th century), a collection of theological texts, consists of two parts; it originated in the Carthusian Monastery in Basel, where it was probably also created. This is certain for the second part of the manuscript, which, in addition to the Vita et revelationes by Agnes Blannbekin (Chapters 1-23), also contains extensive excerpts from Lux divinitatis, the Latin translation of Das fließende Licht der Gottheit by Mechthild of Magdeburg, which became the basis for further copies made in the monastery. The model for most of the texts contained in the second part of Cod. A VIII 6 was the manuscript Basel, university library, Cod. B IX 11.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Blannbeckin, Agnes (Author) | Cyrillus, Hierosolymitanus (Author) | Eusebius, Cremonensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Blannbeckin, Agnes (Author) | Cyrillus, Hierosolymitanus (Author) | Eusebius, Cremonensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, a collection of theological texts, from the Dominican Monastery of Basel, consists of various parts; it alone transmits the complete Latin translation of Fließenden Lichts der Gottheit by Mechthild of Magdeburg. The manuscript is remarkable not only because of its age (around or shortly before 1350), but also because of the numerous marginal notes, which reveal knowledge of the German version of the text, with which this copy of the Latin translation of Das fließende Licht was being compared.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Bertholdus, Norimbergensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bertholdus, Norimbergensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Jacobus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) | Moser, Urban (Librarian) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) Found in: Additional description
Mystic treatises in German: Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of Divinity ("Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit") and other mystic works (e.g. selections from Meister Eckhart). The manuscript was a gift, together with Cod. 278(1040), from Heinrich Rumersheim of Basel to the four sister convents in der Au near Einsiedeln at the behest of Margarete zum Goldenen Ring.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
- Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) Found in: Standard description
The first part of this manuscript contains works by and about the mystic Elisabeth von Schönau (d. 1164) as translated into Alemannic: Liber visionum, Prophetia Elisabethae, Adiuratio conscriptoris, Liber viarum Dei, Liber revelationum de sacro exercitu virginum Coloniensium, Epistolae, Visio Egberti de Ursula, Epistola Eckeberti ad cognatas suas de obitu dominae Elisabeth. The second part contains the mystical tract by Mechthild von Magdeburg (d. 1282), Das Liecht der Gotheit in an Alemannic re-translation from the Latin. This is the only known textual witness of this version.
Online Since: 12/21/2010
- Elisabeth, Schonaugiensis (Author) | Mechthild, von Magedeburg (Author) Found in: Standard description