Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Germany.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Astronomical collection, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 130
Scope and Contents
Collection of astronomical texts in German.Kalendar: starts on f. 1v. It contains lunary and planetary tables combined. Saint particulalrly linked with Germany appear in the Kalendar: 6 January – The Three Kings (Cologne); 7 January – Saint Valentine Bishop (Passau and Apostle of Rhoetia); 15 June – Saint Vitus Martyr; 13 October –: Saint Kolman Martyr.Küngsperger: starts on f. 13v. A series of tables, one for each of the...
Dates:
15th century
Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], c 1260
Item
Identifier: MS 8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. The order of books of the Old Testament is unusual: chapter 15 of Leviticus is found at the end of the book of Esther with an explanatory
rubric; Lamentations and Baruch precede Jeremiah instead of coming after it; the Letter of Jeremiah,...
Dates:
c 1260
Biblia Sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 1367
Item
Identifier: MS 9
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains the text of the Vulgate for the Old Testament from Genesis to Esther. It includes the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh, placed at the end of Second Chronicles.Prologue to the Bible (Letter to Paulinus): starts on f. 1r; this is the letter written by Jerome to Paulinus, bishop of Nola, placed at the beginning...
Dates:
1367
Book of Hours and Prayer Book, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 48
Contents
The manuscript is a Book of Hours and Prayer Book from the 15th century. It originated in Germany, possibly in Schleswig. All the prayers are for a masculine owner.The Kalendar starts on f.1r. Some entries in the Kalendar that may reflect the manuscript’s provenance are as follows. 30 January: Aldegonde, Virgin; 17 March: Gertrude, Virgin; 3 June: Erasmus, Martyr; 4 July, Odalrici (Ulrich), Martyr; 8 July: Kilian, Martyr; 11 July: Ketillus, Confessor (of...
Dates:
15th century
Book of Hours (Use of Utrecht), 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 46
Scope and Contents
Book of Hours in German from the 15th century.Kalendar: starts on f. 2r. Contains commemorations of Saints and Martyr, and other festivities (the most important are written in red). Its content points to the area of Cologne.30 January: Aldegunt iunffer (Aldegunda Virgin, hermitess and Benedectine abbess, from Hainaut); 1 March: Swicbertus, Bp. (Swithbert Bishop, founded a...
Dates:
15th century
Collection of Sermons, Epistles, Hagiographies, and other religious texts by Guerric of Igny, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Damian, and other important figures of the Catholic Church, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 98
Contents
This manuscript contains a collection of around 70 Sermons, Epistles, Hagiographies, prayers, and other religious texts by several different authors, including Guerric of Igny, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Damian, Maximus [?], Pope Sylvester, Pope Eugene IV, Pope Boniface IX, and abbot Gibuinus.ContentsSermo Guerrici Abbatis. De Adventu Domini: starts on f. 1r with the following words: Vox...
Dates:
15th century
Commentaries on the Bible by Johannes de Indagine, 1460s
Item
Identifier: MS 71
Contents
A 15th century autograph manuscript (the author of the work is also the scribe of the manuscript) from the Carthusian Charterhouse at Erfurt. The author and scribe is Johannes de Indagine, who was a Carthusian monk and prior connected to Erfurt Charterhouse and other Carthusian houses in Germany in the fifteenth century. The manuscript includes a collection of commentaries on parts of the bible, including Paul's letters, the Song of Songs, and other parts of the old and new testaments....
Dates:
1460s
Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugh Ripelin, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 74
Contents
14th century German manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', one of the most widely read theological manuals or textbooks of the Middle Ages. It is divided into seven books: 1 The Nature of God; 2 The Creation; 3 On Sin; 4 The Incarnation; 5 On Grace, Beatitudes and the Sacraments; 6 The Sacraments; 7 The Last Things. It has been attributed to a variety of authors but current research points to Hugh Ripelin (also called Hugo Argentinensis), a Dominican theologian at Strasburg,...
Dates:
14th century
Composite manuscript containing fifteen texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 78
Contents
Contains fourteen texts, a number of which have been written by Brother Sigfrid Slimdlin.ff. 1r-49r: 'De venerabili sacramento altaris' ('On the venerable sacrament of the altar').f. 49v: Alphabet poem.ff. 50r-51v: Blank folios.ff. 52r-54v: Capitula of 'Bonum universale de Apibus' by Thomas of Cantimpré (followed by an excerpt from the same work).ff. 55r-61r: Two excerpts on bees from 'De proprietatibus rerum' by Bartholomaeus...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 147
Contents
This manuscript contains nine main texts in several hands, although the last section itself is made of various notes written by different people. The whole text has been annotated by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt, which could mean this volume was his personal handbook at some point.f. 1r: List of Contents, written by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt.ff. 1v-2v: Tract on the...
Dates:
15th century