German-language composite manuscript containing poems in the form of dialogues, a dialogue in prose, texts by Henry Suso, “Schwesternbücher”, legends such as the “Vierzig Myrrhenbüschel vom Leiden Christi”
This manuscript consists of four codicological units; it was
written around 1505 by the two Dominican nuns Cordula von Schönau
(Constance, previously St. Gall) and Regina Sattler (St. Gall) at
and for the Cloister of the Dominican Nuns of Zoffingen in
Constance. For this codex, the two sisters copied the poems in
dialogue form Kreuztragende Minne and Christus und die minnende
Seele, the prose dialogue Disput zwischen der minnenden Seele und
unserem Herrn, Henry Suso’s Exemplar (without the Büchlein der
ewigen Weisheit) as well as 15 of his open letters, the Tösser
Schwesternbuch, the legends of Elizabeth of Hungary, Margaret of
Hungary, and Louis of Toulouse, the Vierzig Myrrhenbüschel vom
Leiden Christi , the story of the founding of the Cloister of the
Dominican Nuns St. Katharinental near Diessenhofen, and the St.
Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch.
Place
Preferred form
Constance. Zoffingen Convent (Germany)
Original form
Constance, Cloister of the Dominican Nuns of Zoffingen
