A composite manuscript consisting mainly of historiographic and
hagiographic content. The texts were written between 1450 and 1550,
then assembled as a volume in 1573 by St. St. Gall monk Mauritius
Enk. In addition to transmitting an anonymous Dialogus de sectis,
numerous legends about the saints in German, portions of the
Strassburg Chronicle by Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, as well as
records from the Constance Synod of 1491, the manuscript also
contains, on pages 283 through 288, without a title and almost
seamlessly continuing into the following text, 30 short accounts
recorded in about 1500 of the gruesome deeds of the Wallachian
Count Vlad III Tepes ("the Impaler", 1431-1476), who as member of
the Order of the Dragon also held the title of Dracula. This
Dracula text is only transmitted in three other manuscripts: one at
the library of Lambach Abbey in upper Austria, one at the British
Library in London, and one at the Municipal Library of Colmar in
France.
Place
Preferred form
Switzerland (?)
Original form
Switzerland (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
