The Bernese Physiologist ( lat. Physiologus Bongarsianus ) is an illuminated manuscript of the Latin translation of the Physiologist of the Carolingian era , created, probably, in Reims . For a long time it was located at St. Peter’s Abbey in Hauteville , in 1632 it was donated to the city library of Bern , where it has been kept since (catalog designation Codex Bongarsianus 318 ).
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| Bern Physiologist . 850s (?) | ||
| Physiologus bongarsianus | ||
| Parchment , pigments , gilding . 25.5 × 18 cm | ||
| Burgerbibliothek, Bern | ||
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The manuscript was created, presumably between the years 825-850, in a colophon on a 130 revolving sheet, the scribe calls himself Goepert (Haecpertus). In its current form includes 131 parchment sheet format 255 × 180 mm. The manuscript is rewritten by Carolinga minuscule , uncyal is used for headings. In 1946, the manuscript was restored. Also includes 25 framed thumbnails and another 10 - in the text. Perhaps they are copied from the ancient prototype of the V century.
Literature
- Helen Woodruff: The Physiologus of Bern. A survival of the Alexandrian Style in a 9th Century Manuscript , in: The Art Bulletin 12, 1930, S. 226—253 ( Jstor )
- Otto Homburger : Über die kunstgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Handschriften der Burgerbibliothek , in: Schätze der Burgerbibliothek Bern . Bern 1953.
- Otto Homburger: Die illustrierten Handschriften der Burgerbibliothek Bern. Die vorkarolingischen und karolingischen Handschriften . Bern 1962.
- Christoph von Steiger, Otto Homburger: Physiologus Bernensis. Voll-Faksimile-Ausgabe des Codex Bongarsianus 318 der Burgerbibliothek Bern . Basel 1964.
- Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti: Katalog der datierten Handschriften der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550 . Bd. II: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern - Porrentruy. Dietikon-Zürich 1977, S. 193 Abb. 675-677
- Florentine Mütherich, Joachim E. Gaehde: Karolingische Buchmalerei , Prestel, Munchen 1979. ISBN 3-7913-0395-3 , S. 63-65.