De dignitate sanctae Mariae

also:
De dignitate Mariae

I. Basic information

Printing History, Manuscripts. Not printed. One Latin manuscript.

Editions. Not edited so far.

Relationship between different versions. Only one version known.

Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.

Relationship to other texts.

Authenticity, authorship. Goldammer was already skeptical in regard to the authenticity (“Echtheit noch eingehender zu prüfen”). Biegger states that De dignitate sanctae Mariae “was probably not [written] by Paracelsus; in any case, a German text with a corresponding title is not known.” However, the text seems to have been translated directly from German.

Time of writing.

II. Sources

Manuscripts:

• London, British Library: Harley MS 516, f. 15v–19v

First printed: not printed

III. Bibliography

Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Paracelsus-Handschriften, 641–642, 796 n° 128; Goldammer, “Einleitung,” in Paracelsus, Sämtliche Werke, II/6: XXIX

Further bibliographical references:

Katharina Biegger, “Wie gelangten theologische Paracelsusschriften nach London?”, Nova Acta Paracelsica, N.F. 4 (1989), 24–37

Katharina Biegger, “De invocatione Beatae Mariae Virginis”. Paracelsus und die Marienverehrung (Stuttgart, 1990), 133