The first volume of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of
fascicle groups and individual leaves containing copies of sermons
in German, assembled near the end of the 14th century or early in
the 15th century for use in the women's cloister of St. Andreas at
Engelberg. Together with Cod. 336, this is the oldest textual
witness for the body of works known as the "Engelberger Predigten"
(formerly the "Engelberger Prediger"). One sermon was written, in
1383 at the lastest, by the parish priest Bartholomäus Fridower
from Stans. The Benedictine nuns of St. Andreas took the two
complementary volumes Cod. 335 and Cod. 336 (a third volume may
have been lost) as well as Cod. 337 and at least 24 additional
manuscripts with them to their new location at Sarnen; these have
been held by the Abbey Library of Engelberg since 1887.
Place
Preferred form
Engelberg Abbey (Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Engelberg (parts also from Stans?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
