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Pope Gregory's VII letters; archbishop of Mainz Siegfried's manifesto (so called Königsberg fragment)

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Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 86/II

Marta Czyżak, Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2020 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Pope Gregory's VII letters; archbishop of Mainz Siegfried's manifesto (Königsberg fragment)
Shelfmarks University Library in Toruń, Ms 86/II
Former Shelfmarks Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg, Ms 2556
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1077-1100

Original Condition

Page Height at least 220 mm
Page Width at least 150 mm
Height of Written Area 180 – 190 mm
Width of Written Area 100 – 110 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 180 – 189 mm
Number of Lines 23 – 30
Line Height at least 5 mm
Collation

Pencil foliation from the early 20th century

Current Condition

Dimensions 210 x 120-135, 60 x 205 (strip)

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Gregorius VII, papa
    • Text Language latin
    • Title Epistola ad episcopos et duces in regno Teutonico, 25 VII 1076
    • Content Description

      f. 1r-3v: – Gregorius episcopus, servus servorum Dei, omnibus episcopis, ducibus, comitibus, caeterisque fidelibus in regno Teutonicorum christianam fidem defendentibus, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Audivimus, quosdam inter vos de excommunicatione, quam in regem fecimus, dubitare ac querere...><... qui pro sacrilegio et reatu sy[monia]cę heresis excommunicati sunt ǁ 
    • Rekopisy_010_19_011
    • Edition O. Holder-Egger, Fragment eines Manifestes aus der Zeit Heinrichs IV, „Neues Archiv der Gesselschaft für ältere deutsche Gesichtskunde”, 31, 1906, p. 186-188.
  • Content Item
    • Persons Siegfried I archbishop of Mainz
    • Text Language latin
    • Title Manifestum tempore Henrici IV imperatoris, 1077
    • Content Description
      1. f. 4r-5v: ǁ sententiam totus discedens, Egiptie domine pallium dereliqui, secutus vestigia meliorum, qui eadem via me precesserunt...>< ...Ad quam petitionem suscriptas has epistolas, non ad votum illorum respondentes, remisit, tam ipsis quam et legatis suis, qui tunc apus eos morabantur ǁ .
    • Rekopisy_010_19_014
    • Edition Holder-Egger, p. 188-189.
  • Content Item
    • Persons Gregorius VII, papa
    • Title Epistola ad Bernardum diaconum Romanae ecclesiae et Bernardum abbatem Massiliensem, 31 V 1077
    • Content Description

      f. 5v-6v: Gregorius episcopus, servus servorum Dei carissimis in Christo filiis B[ernhardo] diacono et B[ernhardo] abbati salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Fraternitati vestre notum esse non ambigimus... >< ...Illud semper habentes in memoria, quia scelus idolatrie incurrit qui apostolice sedi ǁ 
    • Rekopisy_010_19_016
    • Edition Holder-Egger, s. 190-191.

History

Origin

Southern Germany
Provenance

Two bifolias and a fragment of bifolium (strip) containing pope Gregory's VII letters and archbishop of Mainz Siegfried's manifesto were discovered at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the binding of Nicolaus de Lyra's Postilla in Evangelia (Ms 1316), probably by Ernst Kuhnert (1862–1952), then the head of the Old Collections Department in the Royal and University Library in Königsberg. At the beginning of the 20th century they were bound with the article by O. Holder-Egger (Fragment eines Manifestes aus der Zeit Heinrichs IV) and marked with a shelfmark 2556.

The host volume, according to the entry on its front pastedown (now Ms 86, f. 5v), was owned by Nicolaus Kalis from Posilge (East Prussia), and then Nicolaus Kalizer, dean of the Sambian chapter (1422-1423), who donated it to the cathedral library. After the chapter was dissolved and its property was secularized, even before the mid-16th century, the manuscript was placed in the prince Albrecht's Hohenzollern castle library in Königsberg.

In the years 1827-1944 the host volume (Ms 1316) belonged to the Royal (then State) and University Library in Königsberg. It was lost in the period 1945-1946, after the evacuation and dislocation of the most valuable collections of the library. The fragment discovered in the binding (Ms 2556) has survived - it is now in the University Library in Toruń (Ms 86/II).
Persons and Institutions 1. Nicolaus Kalis de Posilge (East Prussia); 2. Nicolaus Kalizer, dean of cathedral chapter in Königsberg (1422-1423); 3. Cathedral library in Königsberg; 4. Prince Albrecht's Hohenzollern castle library in Königsberg; 5. Royal (since 1918: State) and University Library in Königsberg; 6. University Library in Toruń

Host Volume

Title Postilla in Evangelia
Date of Origin/Publication about 1350
Shelfmark Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg, Ms 1316

Bibliography

  • P. Nowak, A. Mentzel-Reuters, Das sogenannte Königsberger Fragment, in: Von Preussenland nach Italien. Beiträge zur kultur- und bildungsgeschichtlichen Vernetzung europäischer Regionen, hrsg. M. Mersiowsky, A. Mentzel-Reuters, Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen 2015 (Innsbrucker Historische Studien, 30), p. 41-47, p. 237-244 (il. 1-8).

  • Katalog rękopisów średniowiecznych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu, ed. M. Czyżak in cooperation with M. Jakubek-Raczkowska, A. Wagner, Toruń 2016, p. 374 (il.), 375, 376 (il.), 377.
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