Izjemni rokopisi iz 12.–13

This manuscript (made about 1225) is one of the most important specimen of Middle High German literature. It is the oldest preserved manuscript of Veldeke’s Eneit, and it is the most delicately illustrated manuscript of this vernacular text. It presents t…

This parchment manuscript features various religious texts such as Saints Lives (Vitae Patrum, fol. 2r-94r), texts by Hugo de S. Victore (fol. 94r-123v), and texts by Williram of Ebersberg (fol. 124r-177r) including his important bilingual Expositio in Ca…

Fol. 2 : Calendrier en latin. A noter : ss. Laumer, Vaast et Amand, Édouard, Cuthbert, Médard et Godard, Alban, Arnoul, Oswald, Magloire, Quentin, les Quatre couronnés, Edmond, Thomas de Cantorbéry ; sstes Geneviève, Gertrude, Aure. En tête de chaque mois…

Manuscript 29 is closely related to manuscript 28. Firstly they share the same major texts: three commentaries on books of the Bible, written by Stephen Langton (d. 1228), archbishop of Canterbury and one of the driving forces behind the Magna Carta: Supe…

Manuscript 70 is divided in three parts and contains glosses on the Gospels of Lucas and John, and Apocalypse. The glosses were written by Peter Comestor (c. 1100 - 1179). The manuscript was owned by Ter Doest Abbey. Folio's 1r to 191 date back to c. …

The commentaries on Paul's letters contained in manuscript 85 were written by Peter Lombard (c. 1095 - c. 1160). The manuscript dates back to the thirteenth century (c. 1230 - 1240). It was in possession of Ten Duinen Abbey. By design, the text has a …

Manuscript 113, from the second half of the twelfth century, contains a copy of the treatise De Trinitate by Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430). It was a part of the Ten Duinen library. A striking feature of this manuscript is its original twelfth century Cis…

Manuscript 131, dating from c. 1170-1180, is a composite manuscript. The manuscript belongs to Ten Duinen Abbey. It contains the oldest known copy in Latin of the Rule of the Templars by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153). The second text in the manuscrip…

Manuscript 404, dating back to the thirteenth century, contains part of the Magnum legendarium Flandrense. This legendary contains a collection of the lives of saints, focussing on Flemish saints. The manuscript was part of the merged libraries of Ter Doe…

Folio 1: lower margin, with text loss; Folios 382-389, 432-439, 501 are damaged (bitten rodents?) with text loss

Manuscript 512 contains the Book of Optics or De aspectibus by Ibn al-Haytham (965 - 1039). It dates from the thirteenth century. The manuscript was part of the merged libraries of Ter Doest and Ten Duinen Abbey. In De aspectibus Ibn al-Haytham discusses …

Manuscript 545 is a thirteenth-century copy of the Metamorphoses, the famous work by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC - c. 17 AD). The text is incomplete: the first leaf containing the first 66 verses of Book I is lacking and the text ends abruptly in Book XIV,…

full-page miniatures, medaillon, historiated, decorated and pen-flourished initials; handwritten, littera textualis; 20 lines on 175x108 mm; …

The Old Testament deviating from the wording of the Vulgates (although the notation has not yet been systematically studied textologically, it can be said that the Žaltář is, according to the third version of Hieronym from Stridon, a translation into Lati…

[Beda Venerabilis: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Vincentius canonicus Pragensis: Chronicon Boemorum, Gerlacus, abbas Milovicensis: Chronicon Boemorum, Ansbertus: Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris]

Manuscript 27, from the middle of the twelfth century, contains commentary by Bede (673 - 735) on the Book of Proverbs. The manuscript was made at Ten Duinen Abbey. The manuscript has some simple decoration: large initials in red at the beginning of each …

Manuscript 184 contains a copy of the Textus Sententiarum by Peter Lombard (c. 1095 - c.1160) from the last quarter of the twelfth century. Peter Lombard summarizes the Christian doctrine of the faith. He uses sources such as the Bible, methodology by con…

Manuscript 251 contains the first nine of eighteen books of the Speculum Doctrinale - Mirror of doctrine - by Vincent of Beauvais (c. 1190-1264). Mirror of doctrine is the second part of Speculum Maius - the Great Mirror -, a compendium of medieval knowle…

Manuscript 352, dating back to c. 1300, was owned by Ter Doest Abbey. The manuscript was made in Italy. It contains Infortiatum, the second of three parts of the Digest which was ordered to be made by emperor Justinian I in the sixth century. The Digest i…

F. 76v contains pen experiments, with the name “georgius de via”.; The “Liber de animalibus” has a copied colofon that mentions the year 1232. This manuscript must therefore have been made after this year.

Ms. germ. oct. 1430

Shelfmark: Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 112

Scanning from an original document.

Scanning from an original document.; Biblia sacra moralisata.

the manuscript is richly and ornamentally decorated, the best known is the opening initiale A; - the concept of illustrations is not entirely consistent, it does not form a closed cycle, but groups of related topics popular and used in illustrative serie…

In manuscript 8 two texts pertaining to liturgy are bound together. The first four folia (ff. 1r-4v) contain an incomplete liturgical calendar, with a full month on each page (thus, two per leaf). The first and fourth leaf, corresponding to the months Jan…

Manuscript 10, from c. 1176 - c. 1200, contains texts from the Old Testament. It contains the following texts: Book of Proverbs - with a prologue by Jerome (348-420) - , Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach, Job, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Esdras and M…

Despite having only 99 leaves, this composite manuscript contains no less than twenty different texts. In general, they can be distinguished in four categories: texts on Greek and Hebrew names and interpretations on books of the Bible; Commentaries on boo…

Manuscript 101 combines no less than fourteen works from Saint Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397): (ff. 3v-17v) De paradiso; (ff. 18r-36v) De Noe et arca; (ff. 36v-66v) De Abraham; (ff. 66v-79v) De Isaac et anima; (ff. 79v-90v) De bono mortis; (ff. 90v-100r) D…

Manuscript 406 is a biography on the life of Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604), written as a conversation between master and student. It is written in late Carolingian style. The origin of the manuscript is unclear, the author and the place of origin are unknow…