This 15th century paper manuscript was written in the Alemannic
region; around 1500 it belonged to a women named Anna Wiechbalmer.
This as yet little studied composite manuscript contains, among
others, legends written in prose on the life of Saint Clare of
Assisi in German (pp. 1−18) and excerpts from the German
Lucidarius, a popular book that offers theological and scientific
knowledge in a question and answer format (pp. 19−48). The
manuscript contains numerous medical recipes, especially about the
healing power of different plants (pp. 49−74; pp. 138−145),
blessings against worms (p. 74), against ulcers (pp. 101−102),
and for livestock (pp. 127−128), as well as a poem about the
plague (pp. 132−134) written by Hans Andree, a (lay) physician
working in Konstanz, including rules of conduct in case of an
occurrence of the plague. Sentences by mystics and other spiritual
texts (pp. 77−101, pp. 103−104), excerpts from the work Die 24
Alten des Otto von Passau (pp. 105−119), and German language
hymns, songs and prayers (pp. 129−131; pp. 135−138), among them
a German version of the first stanza of Media vita in morte sumus)
on p. 131 complete the manuscript. At the beginning (p. B), there
is a rudimentary table of contents by the librarian P. Franz
Weidmann (1774−1843).
Place
Preferred form
Constance (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) (?)
Original form
Konstanz (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
