Johannes, Gerson (1363-1429)
This volume contains a large number of texts about theology and canon law. All of it was written by one scribe, the Carthusian Heinrich von Vullenhoe of Basel. In a long note he provides information about the motives that guided him during the compilation: Since as a Carthusian he could not himself act as a preacher, he only had the possibility to spread the Word of God with his hands, i.e. by writing books. He expresses the hope that this compilation he has organized may strengthen the pious on their path and may offer an occasion for remorse for the sinners. Many of the texts that Vullenhoe has combined in this volume refer directly to the Carthusian Order. One example is the treatise de esu carnium, which defends the Carthusian practice of renouncing meat as a foodstuff. Many texts have also been handed down in other manuscripts from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Johannes, Gerson: De religionis perfectione et moderamine (107r-113v)
Incipit: Gratia vobis et pax in Christo Iesu. Utique
Explicit: si placet videatur. >Explicit opusculum petenti<.
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This anthology contains theological treatises, including various texts by Jean Gerson (1363-1429). The volume was written by Alfred Löffler (1416-1462). This scribe, originally came from Rheinfelden, entered the Basel Dominican monastery in 1445; at several places in the manuscript, he requests prayers for him. He also mentions individual dates (1454, 1456) as well as places of writing. The latter are the Convents of Dominican nuns at Steinbach and at Himmelskron near Worms, where Löffler served as confessor during the years in question. When he returned to Basel, he probably also brought with him this volume, which found its way into the library of the Dominican monastery of Basel and, after the Reformation, became part of the university library.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Johannes, Gerson: De meditatione cordis (200v-204v)
Incipit: Meditacio cordis mei [ps. 18,15]. Felix certe qui cum propheta potest ex sentencia dicere verbum istud, sed videamus
Explicit: et alieno magis quam proprio semper iudicio credens.
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- Johannes, Gerson: De simplificatione cordis (205r-213v)
Incipit: In simplicitate cordis [sap.1,1]. Hanc sapientis exhortacionem hanc simplificacionem cordis illi facere nequeunt qui sunt in se multiplices variique
Explicit: Et iterum confitebor tibi in directione cordis.
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- Johannes, Gerson: De directione cordis (214r-222v)
Incipit: Confitebor tibi in directione cordis [ps. 118,7]. Pollicetur hoc psalmista personam in se gerens anime cuiuslibet fidelis
Explicit: et evadat in malum.
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- Johannes, Gerson: Quaestiones quattuor (223r-229v) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, Gerson: Tractatus de remediis contra pusillanimitatem (229v-239r)
Incipit: Qui pavidus est et pusilanimis cavere sibi debet a nimio timore. Si enim cor suum
Explicit: quia placuit patri vestro celesti dare vobis regnum in secula seculorum Amen.
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- Johannes, Gerson: Tractatus de monte contemplationis (239v-273v)
Incipit: Mirari nonnulli fortasse poterunt ac querere provide cur de materia tam sublimi
Explicit: alcioribus doctioribusque id relinquens discuciendum. Deo gracias omni tempore amen.
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- Albertus, Loeffler, OP (Scribe) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Gerardus, Leodiensis, o P (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Jacobus, de Susato (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Theodoricus, de Monasterio (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is mostly by the hand of the librarian Georg Carpentarius, who for the sake of daily spiritual exercises compiled prayers for various occasions, hymns, meditations and other theological texts. Among the identifiable authors are great ones such as Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as lesser known names such as Basilius Phrisius. Two colored prints are glued in the covers: St. George with the dragon (front pastedown) and the Mass of St. Gregory (back pastedown).
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Johannes, Gerson: Meditationes seu orationes ante et post missam dicendae per hebdomada (73v-104r)
Incipit: Domine Iesu Christe sacerdos summe non sum dignus per me accedere ad sacrum altare tuum nec auderem sed in virtute
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- Johannes, Gerson: Monotessaron, cap. 136-149 (De passione domini) (137r-159v)
Incipit: Appropinquabat autem dies festus azymorum qui dicitur pascha. Erat autem pascha et azyma post biduum. Et factum est cum consummasset Iesus sermones hos omnes
Explicit: signantes lapidem cum custodibus. Amen.
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- Adamus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Alantsee, Ambrosius (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Dorlandus, Petrus (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Author) | Gennadius, Scholarius (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hermannus, Augiensis (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Phrisius, Basilius (Author) | Robert I., France, Roi (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript of theological content originally belonged to the patrician family Gossembrot of Augsburg (late 15th century); via Johannes Oporin († 1568), Eusebius Merz († 1616) and Remigius Faesch († 1667), it finally became part of the university library of Basel in 1823. Except for a single remaining woodcut, various miniatures and woodcuts pasted into the manuscript have been torn out.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Johannes, Gerson: Sermo de nativitate gloriosae virginis Mariae et de commendatione Virginis sponsi eius Ioseph factus in concilio Constantiensi (181v-185v)
Incipit: Iacob autem genuit virum Marie, de qua natus est Ihesus qui vocatur Christus. Matthei primo. Mt. 1,16 Invocandam te iudicamus imprimis o Maria
Explicit: sed cum laudabili gratiarum actione apud deum qui taliter dedit nasci denuo. Qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen
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- Albrecht, von Eyb (Author) | Andreas, Capellanus (Author) | Baptista Dionysius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Fäsch, Johann Rudolf (Librarian) | Fäsch, Johann Rudolf (Annotator) | Fäsch, Ruman (Librarian) | Fäsch, Ruman (Annotator) | Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Gerlach, Franz Dorotheus (Librarian) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Annotator) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Author) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Former possessor) | Huber, Daniel (Librarian) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Meisterlin, Sigismundus (Annotator) | Meisterlin, Sigismundus (Scribe) | Merz, Eusebius (Former possessor) | Oporinus, Johannes (Former possessor) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Vegius, Mapheus (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Wimpfeling, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript of catechetical-ascetic content, in quarto format on paper. Three fascicles of various strengths. The oldest is from the second half of the 14th century; it is written by Albert von Münnerstadt, Conventual from the Commandry of the Teutonic Knights of Hitzkirch, and contains Moralitates super evangelium sancti Lucae. In the second half of the 15th century, probably in Beromünster, this was bound together with two natural science Compendia moralia (excerpts from Thomas of Cantimpré's encyclopedia) and with catechetical treatises by Heinrich von Langenstein, Johannes Gerson and Bonaventure. Scholarly manuscript for regular use in the area of pastoral care (hasty hand with numerous abbreviations, especially in the third fascicle).
Online Since: 09/23/2014
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Solinus, Gaius Julius (Author) | Thomas, de Cantiprato (Author) | Zeller, Ludwig (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains German-language lives of the saints: the “Lives of the Fathers” (Vitaspatrum) (pp. 5a–482a), the Life of Saint Meinrad (pp. 482a–501b) and the Life of Saint Fridolin, a translation of the Latin Vita of Fridolin written by Balther von Säckingen (pp. 502a–541a). The main scribe of this codex was Johannes Gerster, citizen of Säckingen, who identifies himself on p. 361 and p. 541, each time including a date. Several pen drawings: tree with blossoms and fruit (p. 361), young man in secular clothing (p. 482), sketches of dragons (p. 528 and p. 541), rosette (p. 541). In the 17th century, this manuscript was in the possession of the Convent of the Poor Clares in Freiburg i. Br. (note p. 3); only in the 18th century was it purchased for the Monastery of St. Gall.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Baltherus, Seckinganus (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
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Five codicological units make up this paper manuscript; the text was written by one or more hands in the fifteenth century. The longest texts in the manuscript are the Tractatus de vitiis capitalibus, which is probably to be ascribed to Robert Holcot, the Dialogus rationis et conscientiae of Matthew of Krakow, and the Dialogus de celebratione missae by Henry of Hessia the Younger. The remaining texts are shorter, including sermons, spiritual instructions, and astrological and medical treatises. In addition, there are added numerous documents related to the Council of Constance (1414—1418) that deal with the condemnation of John Hus and with the question of Communion under both kinds.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Johannes, Gerson: De necessaria communione laicorum sub utraque specie [20. August 1417]. (131-140)
Incipit: Oblaturus iuxta seniorum huius sacri concilii Constantiensis monitionem generalem nonnulla que concernunt expugnationem heresum Scriptura sacra est fidei regula
Explicit: prouideat siue disponat. Amen. Deo gratias.
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Hassia (Author) | Henricus, de Segusia (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Jacobus, de Noviano (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, de Toleto (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Essen (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Additional description
This extensive manuscript miscellany was written by the secular priest Matthias Bürer. According to the numerous colophons, he finished the copies of the texts in the period from ca. 1448 to 1463 in Kenzingen (Baden-Württemberg) and in many places in Tyrol. The manuscript transmits among other things several theological treatises, a confessors' manual, two mirrors of confession, an ars moriendi (“the art of dying”), the Acts of the Apostles with the Glossa ordinaria, sermons, as well as Books II–IV of Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues. After the death of Matthias Bürer in 1485, the manuscript went, along with other books, to the Abbey of St. Gall, in accordance with a 1470 agreement.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Johannes, Gerson (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Dinkelspuhel, Nicolaus de (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Henricus, de Frimaria (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Konrad, von Waldhausen (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Jauer (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Additional description
The first quire transmits various texts written non-uniformly (pp. 5-20). After a short, one-column text De excommunicatione (p. 22) is Jean Gerson's De audienda confessione (pp. 23a–70a). There then follow two works ascribed to Augustine in the Middle Ages, namely De spiritu et anima (cap. I-XXXIII on pp. 70a–92b) and Speculum (pp. 92b–109b); Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et libero arbitrio (pp. 110a–138a); Bonaventura's De compositione hominis exterioris under the title Speculum monachorum (pp. 139a–154a) and Lucius Annaeus Seneca's De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus (pp. 154a–166b). Pages 23a-109b are written in a two-column textualis with red headings and blue and red alternating pen-flourished initials as well as pieds-de-mouche. On pp. 110a-166b only red ink was used for such highlights. Between pp. 6 and 7 a slip of paper with writing is pasted in. On the lower margin distinctiones are often added (pp. 30–34, 72–76, 82–85, 111, 113, 121). Within the ruling lines of column 138a is a number-matrix. In column 138b there is a pen trial (ANNO with flourishes). There is a fair amount of marginalia. The pasteboard binding from the 17th or 18th century has a white leather cover with doubled scudding decoration as well as two green laces. The table of contents was added by Pius Kolb (p. 1).
Online Since: 09/06/2023
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Martinus, Bracarensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description