Manuscript Summary: This codex contains Augustine's exposition on the Gospel of John. According to the dedicatory poem on 1r the manuscript was produced under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178) of Engelberg. The layout, script and illustration – a few initials with vinescroll- and bulb patterns (2v, 5v, 136v) alternate with more simple rubricated capitals in dividing the sections – are closely related to Cod. 13. (grd)
Standard description:
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 30. Show standard description
Additional description:
Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 112. Show additional description
Additional description:
Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 97. Show additional description
Additional description:
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. II: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern-Porrentruy, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Dietikon-Zürich 1983, Nr. 230, S. 85-86. Show additional description
Online Since:
06/09/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 15
Parchment · 200 ff. · 38.2 x 27.8 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Augustinus, Expositio super Johannem evangelista
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 15, f. 108r – Augustinus, Expositio super Johannem evangelista (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0015)