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  • P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35.
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  • Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 113.
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  • Janner Sara / Jurot Romain, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, Band IX/2 Schweiz, Wien 2001, S. 100.
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 17
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P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 35.

Manuscript title: Aurelii Augustini De Civitate Dei contra paganos
Date of origin: Exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark: Olim signatus 1/15.
Extent: Foliorum 145.
Format: 320 : 228 mm.
Page layout: Lineis plenis.
Decoration: Tituli rubricati, litterae initiales praeter duas 'Frowinianas' artificiose delineatas minio tinctae sunt; nonnullae tamen erasae et per manum saeculi XII. exeuntis conspiciuntur refectae figurisque decoratae.
Contents:
  • Aurelii Augustini: De Civitate Dei contra paganos libri decem priores.
  • Praecedit caput 43. ex libro secundo retractationum s. Augustini. Interea Roma Gothorum irruptione …–… gloriosissimam civitatem Dei
    P. L. 32, 647-648.
  • Ad calcem codicis aliquot folia per vim et nefas excisa sunt, ita ut liber decimus in capite 26. desinat his verbis: alios autem qui in terris ea quae patris sunt, et al ||
    P. L. 41, 13-304.