Katalog der Handschriften des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes

The "Katalog der Handschriften des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Klosterneuburg. Teil 3. Cod. 201-300" continues the new description of the mediaeval manuscripts of Stift Klosterneuburg started by the Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since the shelf numbers of the manuscripts are arranged by principles of subjects and literary history, the present volume contains mainly theological texts of christian authors living in the period from the 4th to the 15th century. Approximately one third of the manuscripts described transmits works of the church fathers, e. g. Ambrosius, Hieronymus, Iohannes Chrysostomus, Hilarius Pictaviensis, Gregorius Magnus and Beda Venerabilis. Especially the broad tradition of the corpus of Augustinian texts should be emphasized- none of the other Austrian monastic libraries holds such a number of manuscripts of the saint. Among the authors of the following periods we particularly have to mention Rupertus Tuitiensis and Bernardus Claravallensis. The scholastic literature is represented by writers like Anselmus Cantuariensis, Petrus Pictor, Gaufridus Pictaviensis and the members of the Paris school of the 13th and 14th century - here we have to draw a special attention to a remarkable number of codices containing works of Thomas de Aquino. The series of manuscripts catalogued chronologically ends with works of the members of the Vienna University teaching during the 14th and 15th century, e. g. Conradus de Ebraco, Henricus Totting de Oyta and Thomas Ebendorfer. Almost one third of the codices listed in the volume was copied in the Klosterneuburg scriptorium in the course of the 12th century. Another considerable part of the manuscripts catalogued here reflects the manuscript production at Klosterneuburg, in Lower Austria and Vienna from the mid fourteenth to the mid fifteenth century. A CD with specimens of script and bookillumination is added to the printed volume. Furthermore the texts described in the catalogue, their authors and incipits are already searchable on the website "manuscripta.at".