| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | Überlingen, Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek | 1 |
| Austria | St. Paul in Kärnten, Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal | 1 |
| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| France | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France | 1 |
| United States of America | Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art | 1 |
| Russia | St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia | 1 |
Number of manuscripts: 51, displayed: 41 – 51
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 141
Parchment · 113 ff. · 16.5 x 11.8 cm · 14th century
The "Little Book of Eternal Wisdom" ("Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit") by Dominican monk and mystic Heinrich Seuse (1295-1366). This is both the oldest copy of this particular text and the oldest surviving copy of a work by Seuse. Probably produced shortly after Seuse's death.
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 147
Parchment · 51 ff. · 14.0 x 11.0 cm · Engelberg · second half of the 12th century
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).
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154
Parchment · 125 ff. · 12.1 x 9.6 cm · Engelberg · 12th century
This small-format codex contains Cicero's rhetorical work De inventione. The text, mostly in dark-, sometimes light-brown ink comes from multiple hands, which all have their own careful and consistent appearance. Except for some simple decorated initials, slightly larger at the beginning of the prologue and of both books, and the occasional red-ink accentuated capitals and text-beginnings, there is no book decoration whatsoever. A later inscription on 1r indicates that this is probably a volume from the milieu of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 335
Paper · 147 ff. · 21.5 x 14.5 cm · Engelberg (parts also from Stans?) · between 1378 and 1386
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.
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 336
Paper · 112 ff. · 21.5 x 14.5 cm · Engelberg (parts also from Stans?) · between 1378 and 1386
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 Lucerne city scribe 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 by the Abbey Library of Engelberg since 1887.
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 337
Paper · 85 ff. · 21.5 x 14 cm · probably between 1415 and 1420
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 by the Abbey Library of Engelberg since 1887.
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 339
Paper · 189 ff. · 21.5 x 15.0 cm · Lucerne · 1396
Paper manuscript with colored pen sketches from 1396. The tract of the Passion follows the Vita Christi by Ludolf von Sachsen (first German edition), the liturgical tract follows Marquard von Lindau. Produced by Nicholaus Schulmeister, City Scribe of Lucerne from 1368 to 1402, for Lucerne Patrician widow Margaretha von Waltersberg. After her death the codex was inherited by the nuns. It remained in their possession until 1887 and since then has been held by the Abbey Library of Engelberg.
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1005
Parchment · 178 ff. · 24.0 x 18/18.5 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
During construction work in 1963, this commentary by Paschasius Radbertus on the Lamentations of Jeremiah was discovered along with 9 other manuscripts in a false floor over the Engelberg library. On the basis of the verse inscription on 1r, the manuscript can be attributed to the library of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178). The hand and the decoration correspond to those characteristic of the Frowin volumes: the text is in black-brown ink with occasional capitals that are accentuated in red, the incipits and explicits are rubricated, simple initials are in red ink, and decorative initials have tendril and bulb motifs in colorful inks (2r, 40v, 73v, 126r, 163r).
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1007
Parchment · 116 ff. · 28.5 x 20.0 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
This codex with the homilies on the Gospels by Saint Gregory was discovered in 1963 along with 9 other volumes during construction work in the monastery of Engelberg. 1v-2r and 46v each list the titles of 20 homilies. The volume has on 113r-116v various collections and lists, including on 114r, after an excised page, the so-called school-book list. The individual Homilies are each indicated with a red initial and red incipit and explicit. The only change of hands in the well-proportioned script can be observed on 40r-44r. Tears in the parchment have been artfully stitched up. A contract text on 1r and a dedicatory poem on 1v attest that the manuscript was produced under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
Parchment · 160 ff. · 28.5 x 20 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
For centuries this manuscript was unknown, until in 1963 it was discovered along with several other codices (inter alia 1003, 1005, 1007, 1009) in a false floor over the conventual library of Engelberg. The circumstances surrounding this stash – perhaps protection from theft or some other threat – are unknown. On the basis of how it was produced and the verse on 1r, this codex can be placed among the series of volumes on Augustine (Cod. 12-18, 87-88 and 138) in the library of Abbot Frowin (1143-1178).
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
Parchment · 149 ff. · 31.5 x 21.5 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
An Engelberg copy of the historical work Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII by the ecclesiastical author Orosius. The Engelberg exemplar was commissioned under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178). It contains, among other items, noteworthy initials in the Engelberg book decoration style of the time and a large number of glosses. The manuscript is a meticulous copy from the St. Gall exemplar, Cod. 621 (9th century). This Engelberg manuscript later served as the master text for yet another copy, Cod. 60 of the Schaffhausen City Library (Schaffhauser Stadtbibliothek).