Petrus, Comestor (1100-1179)
Part two (New Testament) of an illuminated three-volume bible (of which MsWettF 1 and MsWettF 2 remain), probably bequeathed to the cloister of Wettingen by Rudolph Schwerz, choirmaster of the Grossmunster Cathedral of Zurich and pastor of Altdorf. The origin of the Biblia Sacra is not documented, but it is assumed that it originated in the Zurich art circle. There is some text loss because certain initials have been cut out.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
- Langton, Stephanus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript from the second half of the 14th century. The main part contains the Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor (1r-235v), augmented with various texts about the genealogy of Christ. The manuscript contains numerous graphic representations and illuminated initials which indicate provenance from Basel. The many holes in the parchment are artfully patched with embroidery. The manuscript originated in the Cistercian Monastery Maris Stella, Wettingen.
Online Since: 12/18/2014
- Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Petrus, Pictaviensis de Sancto Victore (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Legenda aurea by the Dominican Jacobus de Voragine (about 1228-1298) is one of the most widely known spiritual collections of the Middle Ages. This 14th century manuscript from Bologna preserves it along with further legends of the saints. The codex is written in a regular Italian Gothic script and, as a matter of routine, is carefully decorated; a large lacuna in chapter 45 (legend of St. Michael) was augmented by a 15th century hand. The volume belongs to the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
The historical-biblical compilation by Peter of Poitiers (around 1130-1205), the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, was very widely used during the last centuries of the Middle Ages. Like many other examplars of this text, this copy was written on a parchment scroll, but at an unknown date it was cut into 7 parts. Figurative medallions and schemata, most of them genealogical, cover the entire work and thus represent a continuous line of world history, from the Fall of Man (f. 1) to the Christmas story (f. 5).
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Beatty, Alfred Chester (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Breslauer, Martin (Seller) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Petrus, Pictaviensis, Cancellarius (Author) | Zacharias, Chrysopolitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the Dragmaticon, a work by the scholar Wilhelm de Conches, a member of the School of Chartres. It is possible that the codex was produced in about 1230 in the area of Cologne in a scholastic circle and that it is among the oldest surviving texts of the Dragmaticon, which is transmitted in a total of about 70 medieval manuscripts. The portable format, assorted schemata and tables provided, and the script used (Gothic cursive) indicate that the manuscript was intended for university use. The first section of the manuscript contains a computus for determining when movable feast days should fall.
Online Since: 05/20/2009
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- Burn, Jacob Henry (Seller) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, de Conchis (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This is an especially lovely exemplar, written in France (Paris?) or Flanders, of The Mirror of Human Salvation, or Speculum humanae salvationis. The work itself exists in over 200 manuscript copies and numerous print editions. The Mirror of Human Salvation is divided into the prefiguring of salvation (Old Testament), the story of salvation as told in the New Testament (from the Annunciation to the Judgement Day), the 7 Stations of the Passion, the 7 Sorrows and the 7 Joys of Mary. At this time, four leaves and the opening portion are missing.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end of the 13th century. It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor. It was quickly supplemented with the second volume of the Bible du XIIIe siècle (“Thirteenth-century Bible”). Because it was widely disseminated during the 14th and 15th centuries, today there are 144 known examples, both complete exemplars and fragments.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
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- Guiart, des Moulins (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end of the 13th century. It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor. It was quickly supplemented with the second volume of the Bible du XIIIe siècle (“Thirteenth-century Bible”). Because it was widely disseminated during the 14th and 15th centuries, today there are 144 known examples, both complete exemplars and fragments.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
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- Guiart, des Moulins (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Bibliothèque de Genève preserves a third copy in two volumes of the Bible Historiale by Guyart des Moulins (besides Ms. fr. 1/1-2 and Ms. fr. 2). Despite the rough execution of his drawings, this copy is remarkable because of its origin. It was copied by Jean Bagnel at the behest of Hugonin Dupont, a merchant and citizen of Geneva; in 1603 it became part of the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Guiart, des Moulins (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Bibliothèque de Genève preserves a third copy in two volumes of the Bible Historiale by Guyart des Moulins (besides Ms. fr. 1/1-2 and Ms. fr. 2). Despite the rough execution of his drawings, this copy is remarkable because of its origin. It was copied by Jean Bagnel at the behest of Hugonin Dupont, a merchant and citizen of Geneva; in 1603 it became part of the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Guiart, des Moulins (Author) | Martin, Lefranc (Translator) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Exodus and Leviticus, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
- Heiland, Hans (Restorer) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
Commentaries by the Franciscan monk Nicholas of Lyra (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, I and II Samuel (I and II Kingdoms), with illustrations produced in central Switzerland.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
- Heiland, Hans (Restorer) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
Contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
- Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
Contains the commentary of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Genesis, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
- Heiland, Hans (Restorer) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
This rather hefty tome (weighing nearly 17 Kilos) compiled around 1200 contains copies in Latin of major works of world-, church- and ethnic history; examples include the History of the World by Orosius, the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea, the Summa of Biblical history (Historica Scholastica) of the early Parisian scholastic Peter Comestor († ca. 1179), the history of the first crusade by Robert of Reims, the history of the Langobards by Paulus Diaconus, the History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede, and Einhard's Life of Charlemagne.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the main work of the Parisian early scholastic Petrus Comestor († 1179), his Historia scholastica; completed around 1169-1173, it is a summa of biblical history from Creation to Ascension. It is written by three late 12th/early 13th century hands, with marginal notes by several hands from the 13th to the 15th century. At the bottom of p. 2 is the writer's name, Uolricus.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
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13th century composite manuscript consisting of 8 parts: 1) excerpts from the martyrologies of the St. Gall Monk Notker Balbulus and of Ado of Vienne (p. 3-10), 2) copy of about half of Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica (p. 11-234), 3) Canones apostolorum et conciliorum prolati per Clementem papam in a smaller format booklet by another hand (p. 235-252), 4) excerpts from the work Panormia by Ivo of Chartres (p. 246b-252b), 5) Historia Langobardorum by Petrus Diaconus with an annex by Andrea Bergamensis (p. 253a-272b), 6) Historia Hierosolymitana by Robertus Monachus Remigiensis (p. 273a-313a), 7) appendices concerning the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the schism of the Church of Utrecht, and the death of Conrad III (p. 313), 8) excerpts from the Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ab Hadriano usque ad Constantinum by Martin of Opava (Martinus Polonus; p. 314-330).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Andreas, Bergamensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Martinus, Oppaviensis (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Andreas, Bergamensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Martinus, Oppaviensis (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains Burchard of Strasbourg's Summa casuum (pp. 7a-261a); according to the colophon (p. 261a), it was completed by the clergyman Fridolinus Vischer in the parish of Mollis in Glarus, probably on April 4, 1419. In the course of the 15th century, notes on personages from the Old Testament were added at the beginning of the manuscript (pp. 4-5), and brief canonical and theological explanations on spiritual kinship, on legitimate and illegitimate contracts and purchases, on tithes and found objects were added at the end of the manuscript (pp. 261b-271b).
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Burchardus, Argentinensis (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Burchardus, Argentinensis (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) Found in: Additional description