Johannes, de Ragusa (1395-1443)
This composite manuscript from the second quarter of the 15th century consists of eight independent parts; accordingly several hands can be distinguished. The volume contains writings on the council; notes in his own hand suggest that the volume belonged to the Dominican John of Ragusa, who was a one of the leading theologians participating in the the Council of Basel. This volume was later owned by the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bonacursius, Bononiensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guilelmus, Adae (Author) | Hieronymus, Pragensis, Camaldulensis (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Johannes, Palomar (Author) | Philippus, Incontri de Pera (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
Koran, written in Ramaḍān 639 h. [= March-April 1242] by Muḥammad Ibn al-Maʿāǧīnī. In addition to the canonical text, the manuscript also contains the variants of the seven readers of the Koran and their main transmitters. It was brought to Basel from Constantinople in 1437 by the Dominican John of Ragusa , one of the leading theologians for the Council of Basel. Since 1433 the manuscript was the property of the Dominican monastery of Basel as a bequest of John of Ragusa, and in 1559 it became the property of the university library. The Zurich theologist Theodor Bibliander made use of this manuscript in the preparation of his printing of the Latin translation of the Koran by Robert von Ketton (Basel 1543).
Online Since: 12/20/2016
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- Ibn al-Maʿāǧīnī, Muḥammad (Scribe) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Famous for the two portraits of Gregory of Nazianzus and Elias of Crete, as well as for a unique cycle of illustrations in honor of Gregory (of which 5 have been lost), this codex is also noteworthy for its content (19 commentaries by Elias of Crete, still unpublished in Greek) and for the story of its creation. The commentaries were copied around the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century, a project that did not provide for miniatures on the frontispiece. These were added a short time later, together with a prologue. The codex still retains the binding that was created in Constantinople between 1435 and 1437 during a restoration for its new owner, the Dominican John of Ragusa, who brought the codex to Basel in 1437.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Billy, Jacques de (Translator) | Elias, Cretensis (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Leunclavius, Johannes (Annotator) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
This Greek manuscript, dating primarily from the tenth century, contains the letters of Paul along with chains of commentaries. It shares similarities with the manuscripts of the so-called “scriptorium of Ephrem” of Constantinople. In that same city, in the fifteenth century, John of Ragusa, legate of the Council of Basel, bought the codex, which he then bequeathed after his death to the Dominicans of Basel. Erasmus used it for his text of the Pauline Epistles as part of his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516). Erasmus' printer, Johannes Froben, left annotations on the pages.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Cyrillus, Alexandrinus (Author) | Dionysius, Alexandrinus (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Annotator) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Euthalius, Diaconus (Author) | Gennadius, Scholarius (Author) | Gerbel, Nikolaus (Annotator) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Gregorius, Nyssenus (Author) | Isidorus, Pelusiota (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Maximus, Confessor, Heiliger (Author) | Methodius, Olympius (Author) | Oecumenius (Author) | Pantaleon, Heinrich (Librarian) | Pfister, Conrad (Librarian) | Photius, Presbyter (Author) | Severianus, Gabalensis (Author) | Theodoretus, Cyrrhensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This richly illuminated manuscript is a Greek Tetravangelion of Italo-Byzantine origin copied in the eighth or ninth century in a biblical uncial script. Some scholars have connected the uncommon style of its decoration with, on the one hand, Byzantine art of the Iconoclastic Period, and on the other hand, with the aesthetic of churches and artefacts from the period of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. In the fifteenth century, John of Ragusa, legate of the Council of Basel, bought the codex in Constantinople, and then bequeathed it on his death to the Dominicans of Basel.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Bitz, Wilhelm (Bookbinder) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This Greek Tetravangelium from the twelfth century was acquired in the fifteenth century, perhaps in Basel, by the Dominican theologian John of Ragusa, who bequeathed it on his death to the Basel Dominicans. Later, Erasmus borrowed it from the Dominicans to use it for his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516). During his editorial work, the humanist made in the margins numerous additions and corrections to the text. He then entrusted the codex to the Basel printer Johannes Froben, who left many annotations on the pages.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Beck, Jakob Christoph (Annotator) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Annotator) | Gerbel, Nikolaus (Annotator) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Oekolampad, Johannes (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
In this twelfth-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament, divided in two parts (without the Apocalypse), the Epistles and Acts were surprisingly placed before the Gospels. Magnificently illuminated, this codex has initials that represent the epistolographers of the New Testament; one miniature depicts John the Evangelist and Christ's descent into Hell (f. 265v). In the fifteenth-century, John of Ragusa, a delegate from the Council of Basel, bought the codex in Constantinople; he then bequeathed it on his death to the Dominicans of Basel. The codex passed into the hands of Johannes Reuchlin, as well as those of Erasmus for his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516).
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Bernoulli, Carl Christoph (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Dionysius Areopagita (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Annotator) | Euthalius, Diaconus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hilarius, Papa (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Lupus, de Olmedo (Author) | Mutianus, Scholasticus (Author) | Pelagius I., Papst (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Schweblin, Johann Ulrich (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This Greek manuscript contains the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. The main hand, rushed and cursive, very often distances itself from the archaicizing forms of the traditional minuscule used in Byzantine copies of the Bible. The codex received its current Byzantine binding perhaps from the monastery of Saint John Prodromos of Petra in Constantinople and was purchased in that city in the fifteenth century by John of Ragusa, delegate from the Council of Basel. John bequeathed the volume on his death to the Dominicans of Basel. Erasmus used it for his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516).
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Annotator) | Euthalius, Diaconus (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Pantaleon, Heinrich (Librarian) | Prokopios, von Gaza (Author) | Sieber, Ludwig (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
In this Northern Italian manuscript from the first half of the 11th century, Virgil's works (Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis) are accompanied by the commentary of Servius. This manuscript belonged to the influential Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati, who added his own comments on Virgil's works in the margins. This manuscript probably came to Basel with the Dominican John of Ragusa, who held a leading position in the Council of Basel. After his death, the manuscript went to the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
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- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Johannes, Tortellius (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Salutati, Coluccio (Former possessor) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description