Robertus, Holcot (-1349)
This quaestio disputata by the Augustinian Johannes of Paltz (around 1445-1511) is a perfect illustration of the working methods of medieval scholasticism. The manuscript was written in Erfurt in the summer of 1486 and has as its topic the refutation of three errors. The first regards those who claim “to be able to calculate and foresee the Last Judgment.” It seems that this document is the only handwritten version of this text, which is known through two printed editions from the 15th century. Franz Xaver Karker (1812-1892), Canon of the Cathedral of Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), donated this work to the Fribourg library.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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This small but extensive (198 ff.) prayer book is written in a variant of North German (Middle Low German). In accordance with the female form in many of the prayers, it was intended for a woman. With the exception of one full-page miniature depicting Christ as the gardener before Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), all illuminations have been removed. An ex-libris on the front pastedown informs us that this small manuscript was a gift to the Fribourg Library in 1891 from Franz Xaver Karker, canon of Wroclaw Cathedral.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Karker, Franz Xaver (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanistic script, was commissioned by Pope Leo X († 1521). The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding's cover, in a rich frieze on the frontispiece, and in the initials on f. 3v and f. 134v. The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525) or his circle. This codex is from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Leo X., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
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- Abbey, John R. (Former possessor) | Attavanti, Attavante (Illuminator) | Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Leo X., Papst (Patron) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Apollinaris (Author) Found in: Standard description
A large part of this manuscript was written by the Dominican Heinrich von Rheinfelden (†1433 or later) of Basel during his student days in Vienna in the late 14th century. The codex contains diverse theological writings of early Viennese theologians (the University of Vienna was founded in 1365). Among them are highly regarded authors such as Henry of Langenstein (†1397), as well as authors such as the theologians and university rectors Stefan von Enczensdorf (†1405) or Johannes von Russbach (†1417), of whom no texts are known other than the ones in this manuscript. Heinrich von Rheinfelden himself must have brought the codex to the Dominican monastery in Basel, where it was signed into the library; as part of the holdings of that library, it became part of the University Library Basel after the Reformation.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
- Robertus, Holcot: In sap. 3,9 exc. (48r-v)
Incipit: Qui confidunt in illum ... [sap. 3,9]. Circa quod nota quod veritatibus theologicis indigemus in presenti
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Commentary on the Sentences by the Dominican theologian Robertus Holcot (ca. 1290-1349), who critically discusses the theological problems raised by Lombard. Robertus Holcot gave lectures on biblical theory at Oxford and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries. This volume, originally a catenatus from the Dominican monastery in Basel, was created between 1429 and 1431.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Robertus, Holcot: Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarum Found in: Standard description
- Robertus, Holcot: Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarum (1ra-153rb) Found in: Standard description
- Robertus, Holcot (Author) | Schretz, Heinricus (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
This 1394 composite manuscript contains an excerpt of the Super libros sapientie (ff. 1r-192r) by Robert Holcot (ca. 1290-1349). Folio 1r has a note of ownership Jste liber est h. wahter prespiteri et detur filijs fratris mei (et johanni . heinrici by another hand) in remedium anime mee, which names Heinrich Wachter (priest) as the owner. This single-column manuscript was written in a cursive script by two different hands. Folios 1r-86v can unequivocally be attributed to Heinrich Wachter. Folios 87r-192r were written by an unknown second hand. The rest of the volume can also be ascribed, albeit not entirely unambiguously, to the two hands mentioned above. The pastedowns, the flyleaves and the reinforcing strips are from a register of names, perhaps from a chancellery. The wood-leather binding is contemporary.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Robertus, Holcot (Author)
This miscellany was assembled by Friedrich von Amberg (Guardian of the Franciscan Convent of Fribourg, † 1432) from various earlier compilations and text fragments. The volume, divided into eight parts, has an extensive collection of exempla (Part 1), excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum (Parts 3, 4, 5 und 6), from the De cognicione of Helinand of Froidmont (Part 2), from Robert Holcot's Moralitates (Part 6), from Hugh of Folieto's De avibus (Part 7) and Nicholas of Hanapis‘ Liber de exemplis Sacrae scripturae (Part 8). The back cover and flyleaf contain a large part of a Fribourg charter. The formerly chained volume with a white-leather cover was restored in 2021 by Carole Jeanneret.
Online Since: 12/20/2023
- Robertus, Holcot: Moralitates. (121v-131v)
Incipit: Legitur in historia Romanorum quod quidam magnus princeps habuit duos filios, senior morabatur cum patre in quodam palacio Secundum Fulgencium et Ysidorum ymmago amoris
Explicit: Legitur parabolice de quodam rege tres filios habuisse et illi debetur regnum inferni etc. Expliciunt moralitates Holckolt et alique ymagines Fulgencii.
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The manuscript consists of two codicological units brought together in a fifteenth-century binding. The first unit (pp. 1-132) is copied in an older Gothic cursive; the second (pp. 133-180) in a textualis, and both date from the fourteenth century. The labels glued to the back inside cover and on the spine give as the title of the work: Fulgentius de virtutib[us], a title confirmed by a note written on a leaf added in the back of the volume: bellus differentiarum Fulgentii. Only two pages remain from this text (pp. 97a-98b), which is brought together with three other collections of exempla: Robert Holcot's Moralitates (pp. 1a-97a), the Declamationes Senecae moralisatae (pp. 99a-115a) and the Enigmata Aristotelis moralizata (pp. 115b-120b). This combination of four texts, which Nigel Palmer called the Compilatio exemplorum anglicorum, circulated predominantly in Germany and in Central Europe. The first part ends with tables and an alphabetical index (pp. 121a-132b). The second codicological unit contains an anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments (pp. 134a-180b).
Online Since: 09/06/2023
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Five codicological units make up this paper manuscript; the text was written by one or more hands in the fifteenth century. The longest texts in the manuscript are the Tractatus de vitiis capitalibus, which is probably to be ascribed to Robert Holcot, the Dialogus rationis et conscientiae of Matthew of Krakow, and the Dialogus de celebratione missae by Henry of Hessia the Younger. The remaining texts are shorter, including sermons, spiritual instructions, and astrological and medical treatises. In addition, there are added numerous documents related to the Council of Constance (1414—1418) that deal with the condemnation of John Hus and with the question of Communion under both kinds.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Robertus, Holcot: Tractatus de vitiis capitalibus (1-41) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Hassia (Author) | Henricus, de Segusia (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Jacobus, de Noviano (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, de Toleto (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Essen (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Hassia (Author) | Henricus, de Segusia (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Jacobus, de Noviano (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, de Toleto (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Essen (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Additional description
Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can be dated to the 15th century. It belonged to Franz Miklosich (1813-1891), one of the most important Slavicists of his time, and was a gift to the Basel Antiques Collection, the precursor of the Basel Historical Museum.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Miklosich, Franz (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description