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Sub-project: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

January 2008 - December 2011

Status: Completed

Financed by: e-lib.ch

Description: With the financial backing of e-lib.ch (the “Swiss Electronic Library”), a total of 100 manuscripts from various Swiss Libraries has been digitized by the end of the year 2011. e-lib.ch is a joint project of the Swiss University Conference, the ETH-Board (Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology) and the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET). This subproject has been commissioned by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW).
Steering Committee: Prof. Rudolf Gschwind and Prof. Dr. Lukas Rosenthaler, Imaging and Media Lab, Universität Basel; Barbara Roth PhD, Manuscript Conservator, Bibliothèque de Genève; Heidi Eisenhut PhD, Director of the Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Trogen.

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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 141
Parchment · 113 ff. · 16.5 x 11.8 cm · 14th century
Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae, germanice

The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom ("Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit") by Dominican monk and mystic Henry Suso (1295-1366). This is both the oldest copy of this particular text and the oldest surviving copy of a work by Suso. Probably produced shortly after Suso's death. (keg)

Online Since: 07/31/2007

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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
Parchment · 149 ff. · 31.5 x 21.5 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII

An Engelberg copy of the historical work Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII by the ecclesiastical author Orosius. The Engelberg exemplar was commissioned under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178). It contains, among other items, noteworthy initials in the Engelberg book decoration style of the time and a large number of glosses. The manuscript is a meticulous copy from the St. Gall exemplar, Cod. 621 (9th century). This Engelberg manuscript later served as the master text for yet another copy, Cod. 60 of the Schaffhausen City Library (Schaffhauser Stadtbibliothek). (keg)

Online Since: 07/31/2007

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 103
Paper · 50 ff. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1630 and 1638
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Gall

The Chronicle of St. Gall abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian Cloister of Ittingen from 1614). According to his own account, Murer based his work on the writings of St. Gall religious community member, legal expert and abbey librarian Jodocus Metzler (1574-1639), among others. The chronicle extends from the founding of the abbey by St. Gallus until the year 1630. (lug)

Online Since: 06/22/2010

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 104
Paper · 11 + 1 ff. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1630 and 1638
Chronicle of St. Johann Abbey

Chronicle of St. John abbey in the Thurtal by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen from 1614). Murer bases his work on information of his own as well as on the writings of St. Gall community member, legal expert and abbey librarian Jodocus Metzler, among others. (lug)

Online Since: 06/22/2010

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 110
Paper · 17 ff. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1614 and 1638
Chronicle of Paradies Abbey

Chronicle of the Paradies Cloister by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen beginning in 1614). For this work Murer used the Swiss Chronicle of Johann Stumpf and probably the "Swabian Chronicle" by Thomas Lirer, among others. It contains numerous copies of documents regarding the holdings of the Paradies Cloister. (lug)

Online Since: 06/22/2010

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 113
Paper · 66 pp. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1614 and 1638
Chronicle of Allerheiligen Abbey

Three chronicles of the Abbey of Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen in three different hands, among which the first is the hand of Heinric Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen beginning in 1614). (lug)

Online Since: 06/22/2010

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Législation et variétés 42/Gesetzgebung und Verschiedenes 42
Parchment · 166 ff. · 50.5 x 36.5 cm · Fribourg, Switzerland · 1410
Schwabenspiegel

The Schwabenspiegel manuscript was commissioned in 1410. It contains a collection of land and feudal laws that were in effect during the late middle ages in southern Germany and what is now the German speaking part of Switzerland. Additional content bound in this volume includes the biblical books of Kings and Maccabees as well as a first German translation of the Handfeste, the Fribourg City Law of 1249. An unusual item found in this manuscript is a miniature of the Flag of Fribourg, which appears here for the first time as we know it today, in the colors black and white. (utz)

Online Since: 12/21/2009

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 34
Parchment · 375 ff. · 24 x 16.5-17 cm · Interlaken (?) · 14th century
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea

James of Voragine’s Golden Legend, one of the most copied texts of the Middle Ages, appears here in a meticulous fourteenth-century copy. This copy is particularly noteworthy for its exceptional elegance and the refined stitchwork that fixes defects in the parchment (holes and tears); they bring to mind similar works from the double convent of canons and canonesses at Interlaken. The decoration resembles the output of a Zurich workshop. Little is known of the early history of the manuscript, but it as attested in the Cistercian monastery of Hauterive from at least the seveneenth century. (jur)

Online Since: 03/31/2011

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 303
Parchment · 91 ff. · 32.5 x 16-17 cm · Hauterive · 13th century
Amedeus Lausannensis; Henricus Abbas Altae Cristae

The colophon at the end of the manuscript establishes with certitude that it was copied at the Cistercian abbey of Hauterive during the thirteenth century. Its author, or the one who commissioned the work, dobutless wanted to “gather together the works of two Cistercian authors who exercised important functions in the region: Henry, Abbot of the neighboring monastery of Hautcrêt, and Amadeus, bishop of the diocese of Lausanne” (from Ciardo). Henry, whose biography is still a subject of debate, chose the learned title Pentaconthamonadius (“the fifty-first”) to designate a sermonary composed of 17 groups of three sermons intended for the liturgy of the White monks. Amadeus of Clermont, a Cistercian monk who became bishop of Lausanne (1145-1159), is the author of eight homilies in honor of the Mother of God, which achieved lasting success as liturgical texts because used in the breviary of the diocese of Lausanne. (jur)

Online Since: 03/31/2011

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 305
Parchment · 228 ff. · 30.5 x 21 cm · Hauterive (?) · around 1300
Missale Cisterciense

This Cistercian missal, produced around 1300, “represents an already advanced phase in the development of this type of liturgical book: the chants of the gradual are completely integrated into the sacramentary, and are no longer accompanied by musical notes; moreover, they are written in a smaller script. In this form, the missal could have served the celebrant for both the conventual mass and for the private mass that Cistercians are known to have held since their origins. The geographical origin of the codex has not been determined with certainty. Without doubt, however, from the fifteenth century onward it was at Hauterive, where it was re-bound. The rich decoration in the canon section provide a fine example of fleuronné initials from the end of the thirteenth century; here, the decoration of the scrolls seems to be still “domesticated” by rigorous framing.” (Joseph Leisibach, Liturgica Friburgensia. Des Livres pour Dieu, 1993, p. 89). (jur)

Online Since: 03/31/2011

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 523
Parchment · 174 ff. · 42-42.5 x 31.5 cm · Hauterive (?) · first half of the 14th century
Antiphonarium Cisterciense, Temporale

This manuscript, copied in an unknown location during the first half of the fourteenth century, provides a beautiful example of a Cistercian antiphony with notes (only the Proprium de tempore is preserved here): an elegant script with widely spaced lines facilitates readability, the musical notes, in square notation, are organized according to a four-line system, and the text is richly decorated with fleuronné initials and droleries. Fragments from a twelfth-century Bible are bound into the beginning of the manuscript and are valuable witnesses for paleographical study of the earliest manuscripts produced by the Cistercians of Hauterive. (jur)

Online Since: 03/31/2011

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 17
Paper · 2 + 828 pp. · 29.1 x 21.2 cm · 15th century (main portion 1a-738b: 1462) / around 1485 / 1462
"Freiburger Perikopen"

Master manuscript of the "Freiburger Perikopen". German language plenary with scripture selections for Mass in German, glosses and additional texts for Sunday and important holy days. (pal)

Online Since: 07/31/2007

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 117 I
Parchment · 1 + 242 + 29 ff. · 18.5 x 13.5 cm · Fribourg · text around 1300 / Tabulae 1403
Berthold of Regensburg, Sermones

Collection of Latin sermons by the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg (in two volumes). The production of this codex involved consultation of Berthold's originals. Marginalia by Friedrich von Amberg appear throughout the entire manuscript (volume I). (kwa)

Online Since: 04/14/2008

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 117 II
Parchment and paper · 1 + 262 + 29 ff. · 18.5 x 13.5 cm · Fribourg · text around 1300 / Tabulae 1403
Berthold of Regensburg, Sermones

Collection of Latin sermons by the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg (in two volumes). The production of this codex involved consultation of Berthold's originals. Marginalia by Friedrich von Amberg appear throughout the entire manuscript (volume II). (kwa)

Online Since: 04/14/2008

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 15
Parchment · III + 108 + II ff. · 17.7 x 13.5 cm · Naples · middle of the 14th century
Liturgical Psalter

This incomplete liturgical psalter was made between 1335 and 1350 in Naples. The unusual decorations are the work of the artist Christoforo Orimina. Because the manuscript contains three different coats of arms, the original owner (a member of the Angevin court in Naples) can not be definitively named. After changing hands many times during the 19th and 20th centuries, the manuscript was acquired in 1968 by the owner of the collection "Comites Latentes" ("Hidden Friends") held by the Bibliothèque de Genève. (jeg)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 64
Parchment · 375 ff. · 35.5 x 28 cm · around 1480
Jean Mansel, La fleur des histoires

This universal history, which contains biblical and secular stories, is one of the most extensvie works of its type from the middle ages. The date of the manuscript can be fixed in the third quarter of the 15th century; it was decorated by the Flemish illuminator Wilhelm Vrelant, a producer of top quality miniatures. (hoc)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 77
Parchment · (I-II) + 450 + (III-IV) ff. · 45.5 x 32 cm · France (Paris) · beginning of the 15th century
"Histoire romaine" by Titus Livius, translated into French by Pierre Bersuire

At the request of Jean II of France, between 1354 and 1356, the Dominican Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius) undertook this translation of the three decades (I, II and IV) of Ab Urbe condita by Titus Livius that were known at the time. This history of Rome extends from the founding of the city to the war between the Romans and the Celtiberians. The exemplar held by the Bibliothèque de Genève was produced at the beginning of the 15th century and carries the Ex libris of the Duke of Berry. Paintings are by the "Maître des Cleres femmes" of the Duke of Berry and by artists working in the style of the "Maître du duc de Bedford". (hoc)

Online Since: 12/21/2010

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 85
Parchment · I + 248 + II ff. · 41 x 30 cm · around 1460-1465
William of Tyre, History of the Crusades translated into French, with an anonymous continuation to the year 1229

This history of the Crusades is a translation of Guillaume de Tyr's Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum into the Flemish French dialect. The manuscript was decorated by Simon Marmion, one of the most significant illumination artists of the 15th century. (hoc)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 167
Parchment · II + 188 + II ff. · 33.5 x 24.5 cm · 1536
Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Kabbalah, dedicated to King Francis I

This parchment manuscript contains the mystic text of the Kabbala in cursive script, illustrated with numerous highly colorful drawings with allegorical, cosmological, and liturgical themes. (hoc)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 180
Parchment · II + 135 ff. · 28 x 20 cm · second half of the 15th century
Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies

Christine de Pisan, a writer and poet of great renoun, was the author of numerous works and was personally involved in the design and production of manuscripts of her works. This hold true for this codex, which contains an account of the building of a utopian city by and for women. (hoc)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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