Gottwald, Benedikt (1845-1908)
This manuscript contains on 3v-142v the homilies of Gregory the Great on the prophet Ezechiel. On 1v-3r, in the same hand, appears the tam veteris quam novi testamenti testominia; on 143r-144r follows a short treatise on Grammar written in a different, slightly later hand; the bottom part of 144 has been cut out. On 4r, a line above the text attributes the volume to Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178). Places where the parchment has been damaged have been carefully mended with different-coloured thread. Two of the decorative initials appear against a coloured background, in accordance with the later Engelberg style (24v and 76v). A few marginal notes are written in a later hand.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
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This codex contains the first of four volumes of the Book of Job by Gregory the Great. The subsequent three volumes are in codices 21, 22 and 23. The first volume encompasses the parts one (ff. 6r-99r) and two (99r-193v), each divided into five books. At the front of the volume there was originally a full-page illustration consisting of an artistic portrayal of Job with his three friends (upper half) and a portrayal of Gregory the Great and a monk writing (lower half). On the back, the actual recto side, is a Leonine verse couplet of dedication to Frowin. This leaf was carefully described by P. Karl Stadler in his hand-written catalog of 1787, which helped to identify the membrum disiectum, which is now held by the The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1955.74 (Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund), as belonging to this volume.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains, along with three other volumes (Cod. 20, 22 and 23), Gregory the Great's interpretation of the Book of Job. In two lines of verse on 1r, Abbot Frowin of Engelberg dedicates the volume to the Mary, the patron saint of the monastery. On 89r and 89v a change in the ruling produces markedly larger line spacing. The incipit and explicit are rubricated, and every section begins with a decorative initial and red and brown-black ink with the figurative and vinescrolls motifs typical of Frowin's scriptorium. The layout, script and illustration are closely related to Cod. 20.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Annotator) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Annotator) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Annotator) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Annotator) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This codex contains Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob. According to poem on 1r, the manuscript was produced under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178). The individual chapters are introduced by initiales in red and brown-black ink; in comparison to the first two initials (6r and 16v), those later in the book appear incomplete. Explicits are written in red majuscule. Tears and holes in the parchment are partially stitched up, but in a less artistic manner as in other manuscripts of the library of Frowin (e.g., Cod. 16). Between 39 and 40 a strip of parchment has been attached to complete the text.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
Following Cod. 20, 21 and 22, this manuscript constitutes the final volume of the Engelberg series of Pope Gregory the Great's interpretation of the book of Job. The decoration has rubricated incipits and explicits and different sorts of initials: simple ones in red ink (1v, 71r), somewhat larger ones with typical bulb motifs (15r, 49v, 101v) and figurated initials in red and brown ink (3r, 32r, 84r, 113r). Tears in the parchment have been stitched with yellow and red thread. At least some of the sparse marginal notes have been written in the same hand as the text. A note added to the end of 123v indicates that Abbot Frowin commissioned the volume.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Knoll, Adelhlem, Pater (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
Thin evangelistary, consisting of only 32 parchment leaves containing 27 pericopes. The very carefully produced codex, which has only a leather binding, is decorated with artistic initials in red and black ink. Although it is not dated, based on the script and decoration the codex can be assigned to the abbots Frowin (1143-1178) and Berchtold (1178-1197).
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the Venerable Bede's homilies on the Gospels, which are listed in a chapter-index on 2r-vv and 65v-66r. A full-page colour illumination on 1v shows the author writing this work, framed by the attributes of the Evangelists. Rubricated initials, incipits and explicits divide the text, itself prepared in a light- to dark-brown ink; at the beginning, when the name of Mary, the patron-saint of the monastery of Engelberg, appears in the text, it is slightly emphasized through the use of majuscule or rubrication. 3r and 11v contain large multicolour decorative initials. Holes and tears in the parchment have been mended in a particularly artistic manner. On 1r a two-line verse states that the copy was made during the abbacy of Frowin (1143-1178).
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Stadler, Karl (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the De sacramentis (also known as the De corpore et sanguine Domini) written by the Frankish Benedictine Paschasius Radbertus. The text has been copied by multiple hands, each of which has its own line-ruling. The decoration of the book is limited to red accentuated capitals and simple red decorated initials that are occasionally rather awkwardly decorated (6v, 12r). The codex's layout and the appearance of its script match those of the volumes prepared under the Engelberg Abbots Frowin (1143-1178) and Berchtold (1178-1197).
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Paschasius, Radbertus (Author) | Straumeyer, Ildefons (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Paschasius, Radbertus (Author) | Straumeyer, Ildefons (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Paschasius, Radbertus (Author) | Straumeyer, Ildefons (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
With his brief "Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit,” the Dominican Henry Suso (1295-1366) created a work that was widely distributed in the late Middle Ages. This manuscript is part of the collection of the women's cloister of St. Andrew in Engelberg; together with cod. 141, it is a very early witness of the text.
Online Since: 12/18/2014
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Additional description
The first volume of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of fascicle groups and individual leaves containing copies of sermons in German, assembled near the end of the 14th century or early in the 15th century for use in the women's cloister of St. Andreas at Engelberg. Together with Cod. 336, this is the oldest textual witness for the body of works known as the "Engelberger Predigten" (formerly the "Engelberger Prediger"). One sermon was written, in 1383 at the lastest, by the parish priest Bartholomäus Fridower from Stans. The Benedictine nuns of St. Andreas took the two complementary volumes Cod. 335 and Cod. 336 (a third volume may have been lost) as well as Cod. 337 and at least 24 additional manuscripts with them to their new location at Sarnen; these have been held by the Abbey Library of Engelberg since 1887.
Online Since: 12/21/2010
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Heer, Gall (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Heer, Gall (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
The third volume, now missing materials from the end, of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of fascicle groups and individual leaves containing copies of sermons in German, assembled near the end of the 14th century or early in the 15th century for use in the women's cloister of St. Andreas at Engelberg. Together with Cod. 335, this is the oldest textual witness for the body of works known as the "Engelberger Predigten" (formerly the "Engelberger Prediger"). Scribes have been identified as the latter Johannes von Bolsenheim, Prior of Engelberg, and the clerk of Lucerne and lay prebendary Johannes Friker, who died in 1388. The Benedictine nuns of St. Andreas took the two complementary volumes Cod. 335 and Cod. 336 (a third volume may have been lost) as well as Cod. 337 and at least 24 additional manuscripts with them to their new location at Sarnen; these have been held in the library of Engelberg Abbey since 1887.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Heer, Gall (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Heer, Gall (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
The collection of nine Easter sermons in German from the body of works known as the "Engelberger Predigten" (früher "Engelberger Prediger") found in the Cod. 337 copy, which was probably made between 1415 and 1420, provides additional content to that found in the sermon collection in Engelberg Codices 335 and 336. In 1615 the Benedictine nuns of St. Andreas took this volume as well as Cod. 335, Cod. 336 and at least 24 additional manuscripts with them to their new location at Sarnen; these have been held in the library of Engelberg Abbey since 1887.
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- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
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Paper manuscript with colored pen sketches from 1396. The Passion tract follows the Vita Christi by Ludolf von Sachsen (of which it is the first German version), the liturgical tract follows Marquard von Lindau. Produced by Nicholaus Schulmeister, clerk of Lucerne from 1368 to 1402, for Lucerne patrician widow Margaretha von Waltersberg. After her death the codex was to be inherited by the nuns. It remained in their possession until 1887 and since then has been held in the library of Engelberg Abbey.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Scribe) Found in: Additional description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Marquard, von Lindau (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Author) | Schulmeister, Nikolaus (Scribe) Found in: Additional description
The origin of this Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit attributed to Henry Suso (1295-1366), is unknown; perhaps it originated in a Franciscan environment in the Western Alemannic region. This text may have been created about a century after the very early witnesses in codd. 141 and 153.
Online Since: 12/18/2014
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Gottwald, Benedikt (Librarian) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Additional description