Urbarium of the Holy Blood, compiled in 1460 by Hans Rabustan, chaplain of St. Maria, for sacristan Anna Planta (abbess 1464-1477). It lists all donations to the relic of the Holy Blood. Altogether there are 33 clearly described fields, as well as the names of the tenants at the time. (ack)

Online Since: 09/26/2017

Fragment of an evangeliary written around 800. It contains the pericopes necessary for the entire liturgical year. The surviving parts begin with the pericope for Septuagesima Sunday and suggest that, in addition to Sundays and holidays, gospels were chosen for every Wednesday and Friday, and during Lent - as in the Missale Romanum - for every day of the week. The final part contains the gospels for the votive Mass, however only four pericopes have survived. The script indicates a scriptorium in Raetia Curiensis as place of origin. (ack)

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Fragment of a copy of Gregory the Great’s Homilies on the Gospels, created around 800. Two excerpts remain: the first section of text, consisting of parts of chapter 17 (17.16-17.18), is a commentary on Luke 10, 1-9, i.e. the verses concerning the sending out of the seventy-two disciples. The second section of text, containing parts of chapter 18 (18.2-18.3), refers to John 8.46-59. These verses are a commentary on a dispute between Jesus and “the” Jews as well as the high priests; it concerns the identity of Jesus or rather his claim of identity, his message and the rejection thereof. (ack)

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Fragment of a 13th century manuscript. Parts of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo and the Agnus Dei have survived. This is followed by five lines from the trope of baptism, which begins with Quoniam Dominus and ends with coaeternum Patri. The title Tropi makes clear that the text contained more tropes. (ack)

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Handwritten fragment of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo from the 15th century. The final part has survived with [mise]rere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus Altissimus, Iesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu: in gloria Dei Patris. Amen. (ack)

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Fragment of a 9th or 10th century parchment manuscript containing an excerpt from an antiphonary. The text is written in a delicate and graceful Carolingian minuscule. Some letters, titles and sentences are executed in a brilliant minium red. (ack)

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Fragment of a cartulary written around 800. Copies, in part complete, of six deeds of donation have survived. With these, several persons donated - for the salvation of their own soul or for that of relatives - pieces of land to the churches St. Hilarius in Chur and St. Carpophorus in Trimmis. The fact that the two churches St. Hilarius in Chur and St. Carpophorus in Trimmis are named as beneficiaries of the donations suggests that this fragment was part of an episcopal cartulary. (ack)

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Fragment of an excerpt from the Book of Leviticus, copied around 800. It comprises verses 4.27-6.10, which contain a part of the laws on sacrifice (chap. 4-6). This copy, which generally corresponds to the Vulgate, constitutes a written record from the Rhaetian area. (ack)

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Fragment of an excerpt from the Book of Leviticus, copied around 800. It comprises verses 15.20-18.6, which contain purity laws (chap. 15), regulations for the ritual celebration of the day of atonement (chap. 16), laws governing the eating of meat and the rituals related thereto (chap. 17), as well as God’s demands to keep His commandments and a regulation concerning marriage and chastity (chap. 18). This copy, which generally corresponds to the Vulgate, constitutes a written record from the Rhaetian area. (ack)

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Parchment fragment (1 leaf) with an excerpt from an evangeliary from around 800. The text is written in a graceful Rhaetian minuscule. The titles are rubricated and individual uppercase letters are executed in red. The surviving section of text covers Septuagesima to Quinquagesima Sundays well as the Sundays and weekdays from the first Sunday of Lent to the first Passion Sunday. (ack)

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Part of a leaf from the third volume (May-June) of a Fulda Legendary that originally consisted of six volumes, commissioned in 1156 by Rugger, monk at Frauenberg Abbey in Fulda (1176-1177 abbot of Fulda as Rugger II). This fragment contains parts of the Passio sanctorum Marci et Marcelliani as well as of the Vita s. Bodardi; it was probably written by Eberhard of Fulda. The legendary was still used in the middle of the 16th century in Fulda by Georg Witzel (1501-1573) for his Hagiologium seu de sanctis ecclesiae (Mainz 1541) as well as for his Chorus sanctorum omnium. Zwelff Bücher Historien Aller Heiligen Gottes (Köln 1554). Other fragments from this third volume are in Basel and Solothurn. It shows that this volume, and at least the 6th volume (November-December) of the legendary as well, reached Basel, where both evidently were used as manuscript waste around 1580. (stb)

Online Since: 06/13/2019

First this manuscript contains the translation into Romansh of the statutes and laws of the district of Bergün in the revision from the year 1614 (pp. V5-V7 and 1­­–23). On pp. 41-76 follow the laws and statutes of the district of Bergün from 1680, followed by supplements from the years 1690-1724 (pp. 77–86); from 1719 (p. 83) on in a different hand. A new numbering begins on p. 109 with the translation of the Federal Charter of the three leagues in the 1544 version (1-7). This is followed by a table of contents, labeled "Register," to the laws (9-12); the last entries are by a second hand. As conclusion to these texts, there is a 1716 statute for the use of forests (pp. 15f), by the first hand again. Peidar P. Juvalta, ord. 1682, † 1724, signs as scribe; in 1719 he executed a second copy for a different commissioner (StAGR A 51). (dar)

Online Since: 03/29/2019

This manuscript contains a systematic collection of 45 sermons, each of which consists of six to seventeen pages. In the beginning, there are 20 sermons in Lower Engadine (pp. 1-281), followed by a sermon in German (pp. 282-297). The remaining 24 sermons are in Upper Engadine (pp. 298-570). The book concludes with a “Register Dels Texts trattos in quaist Cudesch” (Register of [Biblical] texts treated in this book) (not pag., pp. 571-574). The latter takes up the passages from the Bible cited as topic at the beginning of each sermon. The number 33 was skipped, therefore the total number is 46. Two bookmarks (p. 399-s1.2 and p. 475s1.2) identify “Herr Präses Ulrich Vital Sins” (= Johann Ulrich Gosch Vital, Sent; 1781-1868) as the owner of this manuscript. A comparison with an autographic letter, as well as with the orthography of his published works, shows that he was the scribe and author of the texts as well. (dar)

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This manuscript contains the civil statutes (ff. 1-128), criminal statutes (ff. 130-163), and marriage statutes (ff. 165-170) for the Upper Engadine district from 1665, with supplements up to 1762; the supplements for 1762 are written in another script. Next is a translation of the Federal Charter from 1524 (ff. 172-177) and of the testamentary agreement with the Counts of the Tyrol from 1518 (ff. 178-185). The statutes conclude with a register (ff. 187-197). This is followed by a list of officials of the Upper Engadine district from 1563-1729 (ff. 210v-226r). (dar)

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This breviary, which contains only the winter part, is dated to the first half of the 14th century. It is from the diocese of Besançon (with which Porrentruy was also affiliated), as indicated by certain saints that appear in the litanies, such as St. Ferreolus or St. Germanus, the responsories for the Sundays of Advent, as well as the Holy Triduum. (gle)

Online Since: 06/22/2017

This catalog of the residents of the college of Belleleay was drawn up in 1791, as indicated by the label on the front cover of the manuscript. Nevertheless, it contains the names of residents who attended this institution from 1772 to 1797, at which point 464 names were registered. On the last five written pages, dated 1835, M. Jean de Montherot (no. 305) provides numerically ordered notes regarding the careers of some them. (rer)

Online Since: 12/14/2018

This composite manuscript is dated 1839 (p. V2) and contains texts about the history of the abbeys of Bellelay and Lucelle; it was compiled by Joseph Trouillat when he was librarian at the college of Porrentruy: De Bellegagiensi monasterio (pp. 1-7); Relation de l’invation de l’abbaye de Bellelay par les troupes françaises 15 novembre 1797 par le père Voirol - this name was crossed out and replaced by that of Marcel Helg, former monk at Bellelay (pp. 8-61); Notes diverses sur Bellelay by Father Voirol (pp. 61-102), followed by seal impressions and coats of arms pasted on (p. 105) or painted (pp. 111, 113, 115, 117); Notes sur l'ancienne abbaye de Lucelle, in Latin with notes in French and with painted coats of arms of various abbots (pp. 121-220) as well as affixed seals (p. 192) and a wax seal (p. 208); various French translations of Latin documents, carried out by abbot Grégoire Voirol (pp. 221-236). (rer)

Online Since: 06/14/2018

This volume contains the first part of a series of notes by Father Grégoire Voirol (Les Genevez, 1751 – Porrentruy, 1827) – the second part can be found in A2044/2. Among the texts copied between 1770 and 1823, there is a Journal de 1790 à 1792; two Supplementum directorii ecclesiastici ad usum Ecclesiae Bellelagiensis, one for the year 1777 (pp. 363-374), the other for the year 1787 (pp. 375-395); Remarques sur la retraite les 28, 29, 30 et 31 décembre 1770, etc. Inserted into these handwritten notes is a print (pp. 401-440): Ordo officii divini juxta rubricas breviari praemonstratensis annus 1789, published in Charleville in 1787. (rer)

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This volume contains the second part of a series of notes by Father Grégoire Voirol (Les Genevez, 1751 – Porrentruy, 1827) – the first part can be found in A2044/1. The notes and the copies of texts primarily refer to the Premonstratensian Bellelay Abbey. Some pages from a printed work, including a part of a calendar, have been inserted into the manuscript (pp. 117-124), and ten loose leaves have been added at the end. (rer)

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Bound in parchment, this Premonstratensian ordinary was copied on paper, probably in the 16th century. It begins with a short prologue (Br), followed by a table of contents (Br-Cv). Next is the text of the ordinary, which corresponds to the edition of Pl. F. Lefèvre (L’ordinaire prémontré d’après des manuscrits du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle, Louvain, 1940). Several notes of ownership allow us to reconstruct the work’s route. According to a signature dated 1610 (Br), it belonged to the Bellelay canon and prior of la Porte-Du-Ciel, Jean Grosjean de Porrentruy († 1617). In the 19th century it was successively owned by Father Grégoire Voirol - Recuperavit ao 1802, G. Voirol, ? - , by P. Migy - ex-libris P. Migy, parochi Bruntruti, 1809, and then by L. Vautrey, par. Delemont (pastedown). (rer)

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