This manuscript, written around 1500 by the Sisters of the third
order of St. Francis at Wonnenstein near Teufen, not far from St.
Gall, contains as an introduction a register (pp. 1−9) of
manuscripts and printed works held in the convent library, compiled
around 1500; it has a total of 110 entries. The majority consist of
ascetic-edifying treatises; among them are Brother Conrad Nater’s
German translations of Bonaventure’s Regula novitiorum (pp.
15−107), the German version of David of Augsburg’s De
exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (pp. 109−188), the
Ermahnung zu einem wahren klösterlichen Leben by the Franciscan
monk Heinrich Vigilis of Weissenburg (pp. 190−223), the treatise
Die besessene Nonne Agnes (pp. 225−404), a treatise on the
passion attributed to Bernardino of Siena (Lernung das lyden unsers
lieben heren zu betrachten; pp. 406−475), revelations by the
mystics Gertrude of Helfta and Christine Ebner (pp. 476−486),
Bonaventure’s Soliloquium in a shortened German version (pp.
496−713), as well as the treatise Vom Reuer, Wirker und Schauer
by the so-called Kuttenmann (pp. 717−727). On 11 February 1782,
the St. Gall Abbey librarian Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger
(1756−1823) acquired this manuscript, together with four other
manuscripts (today Cod. Sang. 972a, Cod. Sang. 976, Cod. Sang. 977
and Cod. Sang. 991) from the community of Capuchin nuns at
Wonnenstein.
Place
Preferred form
Teufen. Community of nuns at Wonnenstein (Switzerland)
Original form
Community of nuns at Wonnenstein, Teufen
Other form
Probably the community of female Capuchins of the third order at Wonnenstein
