Franciscan Authors
Franciscan Authors

Magdalena Beutlerin (Magdalena Beutler/Magdalena Beitlerin/Magdalena von Freiburg/ Buttelerin/Magdalena Büttlerin, 1407/12-1458)

Magdalena Beutlerin (Magdalena Beutler/Magdalena Beitlerin/Magdalena von Freiburg/ Buttelerin/Magdalena Büttlerin, 1407/12-1458) OSC. German Poor Clare from Kenzingen. Daughter of Margareta von Werntertur (Margaretha von Kentzingen) and Georg Beutler. Her widowed mother (who sold her possessions, began a life of begging, and eventually joined the Dominicans at Unterlinden [and a vita devoted to Margareta is included in Johannes Meyer's Buch der Reformacio Predigerordens ]) brought Magdalena, then about five years old, to the Clarissan convent in Freiburg (Sankt Klara), Magdalena stayed there until her death. She became known for her visions and prophesies and also for her stigmata. She received the latter around 1429, after which she composed a letter with her own blood, which circulated in her convent. In 1431, she prophesied her own death. This failed to occur, which damaged her reputation outside her community, yet did not completely end her influence within the monastery. See for a derisory account of this episode Johannes Nider's Formicarius .

Works

  • Deutsche Mystikerbriefe des Mittelalters, 100-1500 W. Oehl, Deutsche Mystikerbriefe des Mittelalters, 100-1500 (1931), 519-530, 813-815.

    1931
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  • Gulden Letanien Gulden Letanien , see: Bram Rossano, 'Magdalena’s gulden letanien. A Late Medieval German-Dutch Meditation on the Passion', Church History and Religious Culture 102:2 (2022), 157-179.

    2022
    see: Bram Rossano, 'Magdalena’s gulden letanien. A Late Medieval German-Dutch Meditation on the Passion', Church History and Religious Culture 102:2 (2022), 157-179.
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  • Magdalena-Buch Her visions are recorded in the so-called Magdalena-Buch : MSS Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, cod. II 16 (M), ff. 15ra-200ra (a. 1491)

    1491 Mainz
    MSS Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, cod. II 16 (M), ff. 15ra-200ra (a. 1491)
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  • Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek cod. 185 (F), pp. 1-334 (a. 1656/57) [this manuscript originates from the Clarissan house of Freiburg]

    Freiburg
    Universitätsbibliothek cod. 185 (F), pp. 1-334 (a. 1656/57) [this manuscript originates from the Clarissan house of Freiburg]
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  • Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, cod. 410, ff. 107r-108r [fragments]

    Mainz
    ff. 107r-108r [fragments]
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  • Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, cgm 5134, ff. 63r-66v [fragments]. For more detailed manuscript information, see Peter Dinzelbacher & Kurt Ruh, 'Magdalena von Freiburg', in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon , 2nd Ed. V (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 1985), 1118. For partial editions, see Wilhelm Schleussner, 'Magdalena von Freiburg. Eine pseudomystische Erscheinung des späteren Mittelalters', Der Katholik 87 (1907), 15-32, 109-127, 199-216

    1985 Berlin-New York
    ff. 63r-66v [fragments]. For more detailed manuscript information, see Peter Dinzelbacher & Kurt Ruh, 'Magdalena von Freiburg', in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon , 2nd Ed. V (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 1985), 1118. For partial editions, see Wilhelm Schleussner, 'Magdalena von Freiburg. Eine pseudomystische Erscheinung des späteren Mittelalters', Der Katholik 87 (1907), 15-32, 109-127, 199-216
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  • Erklärung des Vaterunsers / Paternoster-Gebetsbuch Erklärung des Vaterunsers / Paternoster-Gebetsbuch : a.o. MS Donaueschingen, cod. 298, ff. 1r-337r. The work was edited as: Erklärung des Vaterunsers: A Critical Edition of a 15th-Century Mystical Treatise by Magdalen Beutler of Freiburg , ed. Karen Greenspan. PhD. Diss. (University of Massachusetts, 1984). Supposedly dictated to Magdalena by God himself.

    1984 University of Massachusetts
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