München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 1076 ("Engelhardi abbatis in Lanchaim (Langheim) vita Beatae Methildis (Mechthildis) in dyezzen")

Cantus Siglum

D-Mbs Clm 1076

Holding Institution

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (D-Mbs)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Early thirteenth-century legendary and miscellany from Kloster Diessen, with a late 15th century addition. VI + 182 leaves.

Liturgical Occasions

Mechtild of Diessen, 31. May

Description

Early thirteenth-century legendary and theological miscellany from Kloster Diessen. The original manuscript began with Engelhardt of Langheim's life of Saint Mechthild of Diessen (d. 1160.) The vita concludes with the hymn Meritis celsam (AH 43:414), likely a contrafact of the hymn Ut queant laxis.

A late 15th-century addition consists of a libellus containing an incomplete office for Mechthild of Diessen. It seems that this libellus, housed in a blank cover, was once inserted between folios 28v and 29, at the end of the vita, interrupting the hymn Meritis celsam. This libellus was subsequently removed and relocated to the beginning of the book, where it was renumbered as folios I-VII, inclusive of the two folios that comprise the cover.

This index records the Roman numeral foliation of the libellus (with cover) as folios A1-7 and the foliation of the Hymn Meritis celsam as B28v-29/34, reflecting the gap in foliation resulting from its removal.

The final folio of the original manuscript, indexed as B82v, transmits an added neumed German phrase, transcribed by Henrike Laehnemann as "Vnuerschaydenleich auf ein gancz end und an alles geili."

Selected Bibliography

Canisius, Heinrich, Monumentorum Ecclesiasticorum et Historicum, sive Henrici Canisii Lectiones Antiquae. Edited by Jacobus Basagne. Rudolphum et Gerhardum Wetstenios, 1725.

Blume, Clemens and Guido M. Dreves. Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi XLIII: Hymni Inediti. Liturgische Hymnen des Mittelalters 7. Leipzig, 1903.

Brockhoff, Evamaria, Wolfgang Jahn, Rudolf Wildmoser, and Christian Lankes. “Diessen.” Klöster in Bayern. Haus der Bayerische Geschichte. Accessed December 29, 2025. https://hdbg.eu/kloster/index.php/detail/geschichte?id=KS0075

Hergert, Matthias ed. “Selige Mechthild von Andechs, Äbtissin von Diessen und Edelstetten.” Heiligen-Legende. Accessed December 31, 2025, https://www.heiligen-legende.de/mechthild-von-andechs/.

Engelhardt of Langheim. “The Life of Mechtild of Diessen (d. 1160) by Engelhard of Langheim." In Noble Society: Five Lives from Twelfth-century Germany, edited and translated by Jonathan R. Lyon. Manchester, 2017.

Hugo, Joseph Anton. Chronik des Marktes und der Pfarrei Diessen. Diessen, 1901.

Newman, Martha. Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks: the Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim. Philadelphia, 2020.

Polheim, Karl. Die Lateinische Reimprosa. Berlin, 1925.

Pörnbacher, Hans. Mechthild von Diessen und Andechs, Äbtissen von Edelstetten. Weissenhorn, 1992.

Sattler, Magnus. Das Buchlein vom heiligen Berge Andechs. Kloster Andechs, 1904.

Schmeller, Johann Andreas and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Catalogus codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis I, part I. Edited by Karl Halm. Editio altera emendatior. Sumptibus Bibliothecae Regiae, Monachii, 1892.

Notes on the Inventory

The inventory for D-Mbs Clm 1076 was created by Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa) with proofreading of texts by Kerry McCarthy. Other fields edited by Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University).

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