Description:
BSB-Provenienz: Regensburg, St Emmeram, Benediktiner Extent:
209 Bl. - Pergament Abstract:
Die Werke des christlichen Dichters Prudentius (349 bis nach 405)
erfreuten sich im Mittelalter sehr großer Beliebtheit. Das zeigt
ihre Überlieferung in über 300 Handschriften des 6. bis 15.
Jahrhunderts, von denen die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek und die
Bibliothèque nationale de France die größte Anzahl besitzen. Der
Codex Clm 14395 befand sich nach Ausweis des ersten
Bibliotheksverzeichnisses bereits vor 993 in der Bibliothek von St.
Emmeram. Er enthält das Gesamtwerk des Prudentius. Die Handschrift
ist in karolingischer Minuskel von mehreren ähnlichen Händen
geschrieben. Man findet elf drei- bis zwölfzeilige Initialen mit
Tiermotiven in ziegelroter Federzeichnung. Sie sind von
einheitlichem Stil, wurden aber von zwei Künstlern geschaffen. //
Autor: Claudia Fabian // Datum: 2016
Englische Version: According to inventory records, this manuscript
must have been part of the library of the Abbey of Saint Emmeram
before 993. It contains the complete works of Prudentius (born
348), which enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages but which
today are preserved in their entirety in only 30 manuscripts. The
manuscript is written in a Carolingian minuscule in several hands
and features 11 pen-drawn initials executed by two illustrators in
brick-red color, two of them showing zoomorphic elements. The
initial A in "Ales diei nuntius" (The winged herald of the day) on
folio 2 verso, showing a cock with a bunch of leaves, is positioned
at the beginning of the first hymn, Ad Galli cantum (At cockcrow).
Glosses inserted between the lines and in the margins in later
hands bear testimony to efforts to properly understand this
sophisticated text. This tradition goes back to Iso of Saint Gall
(died circa 871), the distinguished head of the monastic school of
the Abbey of Saint Gall, who commented on the works of Prudentius.
The manuscript came to Munich in 1811 and is today part of the
collection of the Bavarian State Library. Aurelius Clemens
Prudentius was a Christian poet who was born in 348 in northern
Spain. He wrote lyrical, didactic, and polemical poems on Christian
themes. Publication Statement:
[S.l.] 10. Jh
