Rufinus, Aquileiensis (345-410)
The history of the early Christian church by the Greek church father Eusebius of Caesarea was translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia and continued until the end of the 4th century. In this manuscript from the second half of the 13th century, each of the eleven books of church history begins with distinctive multicolored initials.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Eusebius, Caesariensis: Rufinus Aquileiensis Found in: Standard description
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Continuatio historiae ecclesiasticae Eusebii. (73vb–89vb)
Incipit: Hucusque nobis Eusebius
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- Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript originally consisted of at least two books, as can still be seen from the separate original foliation. The first part was written in the 13th century by several very similar hands; it contains numerous sermons, among others some by Gilbertus Tornacensis and Bonaventure. The second part, written by a main hand from the 14th century, contains a vast collection of exempla of various origins. This plain manuscript belonged to the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel, as confirmed by numerous notes of ownership, two old title labels and various old shelfmarks.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Exempla (114v-115v)
Incipit: Quidam adolescens accessit ad quendam heremitam
Explicit: ad heremum properanter abscedit.
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- Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Caesarius, Heisterbacensis (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gilbertus, Tornacensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Annotator) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Saresberiensis (Author) | Moser, Urban (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This Eusebius manuscript is from the 14th century and was already part of the holdings of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel under Heinrich Arnoldi (prior between 1449 and 1480). The manuscript is made of high quality calfskin vellum; it is carefully written and rubricated, in part with pen-flourish initials. The manuscript contains various 14th and 15th century additions; the binding is from the 19th century.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
An extensive part (18 leaves) of a large-format homiliary, probably coming from the Loire area, and decorated with various initials in a Romanesque style. The leaves, which belong to at least three different quires, are today heavily damaged and bound together. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars. In the 20th century, a leaf was lost and was found again in Zurich in 1944.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Historia ecclesiastica (Fragment). (12ra–va) Found in: Standard description
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Rufinus Aquileiensis: Historia ecclesiastica III, 23,6–11. (12va–b)
Incipit: >A
Explicit: ita succedentibus sibi malis, ut desperationem quoque a Deo sibi
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bloesch, Hans (Librarian) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Fulbertus, Carnotensis (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Haimo, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Marcellus, Ancyranus (Author) | Melito, Sardianus (Author) | Mohlberg, Leo Cunibert (Librarian) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, probably of French origin, contains Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica in the translation of Rufinus, as well as Books I-II of Rufinus' continuation thereof.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Eusebius, Caesariensis: Historia ecclesiastica - Rufinus Aquileiensis, Historia ecclesiastica (I-II) Found in: Standard description
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Historia ecclesiastica (64-77v)
Incipit: Hucusque nobis Eusebius Cesariensis rerum
Explicit: quam poterimus breuiter addemus.
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a Latin translation in pre-Carolingian script of the "Antiquitates Judaicae", originally written in Greek by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the first century. CB 98 was produced in the Benedictine abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola (Province of Modena), as was Ms. CB 99, which also contains texts by Flavius Josephus.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains the Jewish War, originally written by the historian Flavius Josephus in the 1st century. The 7 books of De bello Judaico present an account of the Jewish rebellion from the year 66 until the overthrow of Masada in the year 73. CB 99, like Ms. CB 98, was produced in the Benedictine abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola (Province of Modena), though later than CB 98 and by different scribes.
Online Since: 12/20/2007
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was copied in Norman Sicily, contains Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs in the version translated from Greek into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (about 345-about 411). The text comprises the first four of the ten books of which Origen's original text must have consisted. It is preceded by a prologue by Jerome and is followed by short prayer by Gregory of Nazianzus, also translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia. Origen's commentary, which presents Christ as the bridegroom and the Church, or also the individual soul, as the bride, influenced spiritual interpretations of the Song of Songs for centuries.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Breslauer, Martin (Seller) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Origenes (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript (9th century) from Disentis contains the Recognitiones of Pope Clement I in the Latin translation of Rufinus of Aquileia. Books IV-VI and individual chapters are missing.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Clemens I, Papa (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from the 15th or 16th century unites texts by various authors: Isidore of Seville, Jerome, Eusebius of Caesarea as translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, Paulus Orosius and St. Bernard, presented in one codicologically unified volume.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
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- Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Goulart, Jacques (Former possessor) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This copy of seven hagiographic texts, to which a Vita Longini (f. 143v) was added a short while later, is listed in the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v); it is written in a single column and is undecorated except for a few initials with scroll ornamentation. The yellowish discoloration of f. 1r and f. 145v suggests that the manuscript remained unbound until the second half of the 15th century, when like many others, it received a leather binding with metal bosses and a clasp. As with Min. 19, Min. 20, Min. 24, Min. 40, Min. 53 and Min. 55, fragments from a 14th century necrology of All Saints Abbey were used as pastedowns (f. I, f. 146).
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Historia monachorum. (59r-115r) Found in: Standard description
- Athanasius, Alexandrinus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
An excellently crafted copy of the ten-part commentary of the Greek theologian Origen (185-253/54) on the Epistle to the Romans (Commentarii in epistulas ad Romanos), produced in the Cloister of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
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- Origenes (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Epistola Rufini presbyteri ad Eraclium (p. 3)
Incipit: Volentem me paruo subuectum
Explicit: operis dirigat audiamus.
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- Origenes (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Additional description
A copy of the work Bellum Judaicum (the Jewish War) by the Jewish author Flavius Josephus (1st century AD), produced in the 9th century, probably not at the Abbey of St. Gall, by the hands of eight different scribes.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Standard description
- Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Additional description
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- Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Additional description
- Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Rufinus, Aquileiensis (Translator) Found in: Additional description
An important copy, in manuscript historical terms, of the Rule of St. Basil the Great (church father; 329-379) in a Latin translation by church father Rufinius (about 345-410), produced in the cloister of St. Gall by many hands during the second half of the 9th century. In addition to two shorter texts, the manuscript also contains an excerpt from the work De institutis coenobiorum by John Cassian († 430/35).
Online Since: 12/23/2008
- Rufinus, Aquileiensis: Regula S. Basilii interpr. Rufino (S. 2-260) Found in: Standard description
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