Lindt, Johann (1899-1977)
This composite manuscript contains various texts in chronicle form, some of them rare, regarding worldly and ecclesiastical rulers. It is a heavily edited and corrected manuscript from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy, which contains characteristic writings in various black and brown inks and which is richly decorated with many calligraphic initials in different styles. Based on various supplements, the time of its writing can be dated quite exactly to the middle of the 11th century.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Aurelius Victor, Sextus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Busaeus, Johannes (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript consisting of three parts, bringing together French translations of classic reports of voyages to the Far East. The manuscript, especially its first and third parts, is richly adorned with gold decoration and delicate scroll ornamentation in the margins, yet it contains no illustrations. Hand-painted coats of arms make it possible to identify the family de Pons de Saint-Maurice from the Périgord as a previous owner; later the codex was purchased by Jacques Bongars, who, towards the end of his life, was preparing a volume of source materials about travels to Asia.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, de Boldensele (Author) | Het'owm, Patmič' (Author) | Johannes, Longus (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Bookbinder) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Nicolaus, Falconi (Translator) | Odoricus (Author) | Polo, Marco (Author) | Ricoldus, de Monte Crucis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Cod. 207, presumably created in Fleury (St. Benoît-sur-Loire), is one of the few and by far the richest representative of a style that evolved in Fleury towards the end of the 8th century; with its extremely rich and high-quality artistic decoration, consisting of three ornamental pages and almost 140 initials, it is an outstanding example of the creative evolution that the insular language of forms underwent in the important cultural centers of the continent. The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval period: Bede, Donatus, Maximus Victorinus, Julianus Toletanus, Servius Honoratus, Asper minor, Sergius, Petrus Pisanus, Isidore, as well as numerous other anonymous treatises and excerpts.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
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- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) Found in: Standard description
- Asper (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Maximus, Victorinus (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Petrus, Pisanus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex consists of two parts that were united in the 9th century already. The first part, written in Mainz (ff. 1-110), contains the second book of Cassiodorus' Institutiones, which is devoted to secular knowledge; since the 9th century, it has been preserved in several manuscripts in an interpolated version that contains Cassiodorus' remarks on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, supplemented with excerpts from Quintilian, Boethius, Augustine and others. The second part, written in Mainz or in Saint-Amand (ff. 111–126), contains the picture poems of Optatianus Porphyrius as well as some from the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne. A note in Jacques Bongars' own hand indicates that the manuscript - like many others - came into his possession from the chapter library of Strasbourg Cathedral.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Josephus, Scotus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Reims, consists of two parts that contain only the scholia on Lucan, but not the actual text. The first part (up to f. 125v) contains the scholia known as the Commenta Bernensia, which are preserved only in this codex. The text is interspersed with 21 simple schemata in color, geographic representations as well as plans of cities and of battles. The second, unfortunately incomplete part contains a collection of non-illustrated glosses (Adnotationes) for books 1 to 4 as well as 9 and 10 (beginning). As becomes clear from the content, the original plan of merging the Commenta and the Adnotationes into a single text was apparently abandoned in the middle of the first book of the Commenta, and the Adnotationes were copied separately in the last third of the manuscript (from f. 125v).
Online Since: 03/29/2019
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- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Frechulf (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
One of the oldest and most important manuscripts of the Alexander story by Curtius Rufus; it probably was copied on the initiative of Lupus of Ferrières at the local abbey. A quire bound in the front contains a collection of excerpts from the Pseudo-Isidorian papal letters (= false decretals) which has been preserved only here. This collection is larger than the related partial collection by Hinkmar of Laon and most probably stems from the common 'legal invention', which was thought to have been lost. The final pages of the manuscript contain a geographical index of the late Roman administration and notes on the city of Rome. This volume came into the possession of Pierre Daniel, who annotated it extensively; in 1632 the manuscript came to Bern as part of Jacques Bongars' collection.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
This Merovingian composite manuscript, which was created in Bourges, originally consisted of six independent parts, which were written by different, often not very practiced hands in various phases. Most of the close to thirty individual pieces are texts from grammatical, patristic, computistic and medical works. The longer pieces are interspersed with further excerpts, partly written in Tironian notes. One quaternio from the only partially preserved third part is today held in Paris (BN lat. 10756). Noteworthy is the palimpsest in the fifth part, whose undertexts were probably written in Italy in the 7th century and in the second half of the 5th century respectively.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Asper (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Methodius, Olympius (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Author) | Pithou, Pierre (Former possessor) | Pomerius, Iulianus (Author) | Taio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Remnants of an Alcuin's Bible from the Dominican Monastery of Bern, which were used around 1495 by the bookbinder Johannes Vatter as pastedowns for various incunables that are currently held in Bern and Solothurn. After the secularization of the monastery in 1528, the host volume (MUE Inc I 85) became the property of Eberhard Rümlang (ca. 1500–1551) and Wolfgang Musculus (= Müslin, 1497–1563), who donated the volume to the Bern library in 1556. Around 1945, the fragments were removed from the host volumes by Johannes Lindt. Reunification of the fragments : [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 5 (Biblia latina).
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Musculus, Wolfgang (Former possessor) | Rümlang, Eberhard von (Former possessor) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder)
Remnants of an Alcuin's Bible from the Dominican Monastery of Bern, which were used around 1495 by the bookbinder Johannes Vatter as pastedowns for various incunables that are currently held in Bern and Solothurn. After the secularization of the monastery in 1528, the host volumes (MUE Inc. III.15, Vol. 3–4; the strip of Cod. 756.70e is from MUE Inc. I.6), perhaps as part of a bequest of books by the Venner [standard bearer] Jürg Schöni in 1534, became part of the Bern library. Around 1945, the fragments were removed from the host volumes by Johannes Lindt. Reunification of the fragments: [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 5 (Biblia latina).
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Musculus, Wolfgang (Former possessor) | Rümlang, Eberhard von (Former possessor) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder)
Remnants of an Alcuin's Bible from the Dominican Monastery of Bern, which were used around 1495 by the bookbinder Johannes Vatter as pastedowns for various incunables that are currently held in Bern and Solothurn. After the secularization of the monastery in 1528, the host volume (MUE Inc. III.15, Vol. 1) perhaps as part of a bequest of books by the Venner [standard bearer] Jürg Schöni in 1534, became part of the Bern library. Around 1945, the fragments were removed from the host volumes by Johannes Lindt. Reunification of the fragments: [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 5 (Biblia latina).
Online Since: 12/12/2019
- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Musculus, Wolfgang (Former possessor) | Rümlang, Eberhard von (Former possessor) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder)
This manuscript is probably from Murbach Abbey; it is an example of the transmission of texts by the medium of the medieval scroll. The Rotulus von Mülinen contains more than 460 recipes, incantations and blessings in Latin, with selective interlinear glosses in Old High German. In addition there is an isolated recipe purely in Old High German Contra paralysin theutonice. The verso side contains an extensive glossary with over 1500 lemmas from the field of medicine, partly provided with Latin and Old High German explanations.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Mülinen, Familie (Former possessor) | Pfister, Conrad (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
The so-called "Berner Parzival" is the last dated manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic poem about the Holy Grail, created between 1200 and 1210; moreover, this textual witness is adorned with illustrations. Presumably the Bernese merchant Jörg Friburger commissioned the manuscript in 1467 from the scribe Johann Stemhein of Konstanz, who edited and stylistically modernized the text of his model to match the tastes of a late medieval urban public. In addition, he gave directions for illustrations, which were later executed by a painter who created 28 colored pen and ink drawings. The further history of this manuscript,which today consists of 180 leaves, is unknown; it must, however, have reached the Bernese municipal library in the early years of the 19th century, where it is attested at least since 1816.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
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- Guilelmus, Arvernus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Stos, Rolet (Bookbinder) | Wolfram, von Eschenbach (Author) Found in: Standard description
The only textual witness for certain letters by Salvianus of Marseille, the complement of which is preserved in Paris BN lat. 2174, f. 113–115. This non-illuminated fragment probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) Found in: Standard description
- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Salvianus, Massiliensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Amtliche Berner Chronik (Official Chronicle of Bern) was commissioned by the city of Bern in 1474. About ten years later, Diebold Schilling was able to present the city council with this three-volume work, with its title pages in color, decorative initials, and more than six hundred large illustrations. The first volume contains the early history of Bern from the founding of the city until the year 1421, based on the older chronicle by Konrad Justinger, following the version by Bendicht Tschachtlan. The work remained in the possession of the Bern Chancellery for nearly three hundred years before the volumes were given to the City Library in 1762.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
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- Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Schilling, Diebold der Ältere (Author) | Schilling, Diebold der Ältere (Scribe) Found in: Standard description
Remnants of an Alcuin's Bible, written in Tours in the early 9th century; from the Dominican Monastery of Bern; around 1495 the remnants were used as pastedowns for various incunables by the bookbinder Johannes Vatter. After the secularization of the monastery in 1528, the host volumes by various paths reached the Municipal Library of Bern and various libraries in Solothurn. Around 1945, the fragments BBB Cod. 756.59 (1 leaf), Cod. 756.70 (8 leaves and 1 strip) as well as Cod. 756.71 (2 leaves) were removed from the host volumes by Johannes Lindt; today they can be found in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (BBB). Also in situ, i.e., in incunables from the University Library Bern (MUE), is a further leaf (MUE Inc. I.20) or smaller fragments (MUE Inc. IV.77). In addition, the Central Library of Solothurn holds: Cod. S 458 (pastedowns) as well as S II 151 (detached fragments).
Online Since: 12/12/2019
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- Gugger, Urs (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Musculus, Wolfgang (Former possessor) | Rümlang, Eberhard von (Former possessor) | Schöni, Jürg (Former possessor) | Vatter, Johannes (Bookbinder) Found in: Standard description