This miscellany with saints' lives, sermons, and a small collection of Marian miracles was produced at the end of the fourteenth century in the eastern-Alemannic linguistic area. Most of the legends come from the German-language version that has been ascribed to the Zürich Dominican Marquard Biberli (ca. 1265 - ca. 1330), and which is otherwise only transmitted by the manuscript S 451 of Solothurn. In the fifteenth century at the latest, the volume was bound from two originally independent units, each of which was produced by a single, different, scribe. The medieval provenance of the volume is unknown; in the eighteenth century, it belonged to the “Bibliotheca Bruckeriana” (probably Johann Heinrich Brucker, 1725-1754) and was purchased by the University Library in 1808.
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This medical miscellany contains among other things a copy of the Antidotarium Magnum, an extensive compendium of medical recipes that was produced in Monte Cassino at the initative of Constantine the African. This copy has particularly unusual decoration, with 22 large-format, ornamented and historiated initials.
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The manuscript, which contains among other things a Plenarium in German as well as the treatise “Gegen den Eigenbesitz im Kloster” by Henry of Langenstein, was probably bound towards the end of the fifteenth century at the Basel Charterhouse and kept in the lay brothers' library. All parts of the manuscript were written in the Alemannic linguistic area; part 2 was probably copied in Alsace. The manuscript contains annotations of the charterhouse's barber-surgeon, a lay brother named Melcher, who wrote down, among other things, notes on a planned but never executed cycle of paintings of the Apostles.
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This manuscript contains Ps.-Boethius, De disciplina scolarium and John of Garland, De compositis verbis, both with commentaries and additions. Both were written in the second half of the fifteenth century, and one part is dated to 1498. The book was used by many owners, who contributed many annotations and corrections, including also simply pen-drawings, verse exercises, and the names of students. In the early sixteenth century the volume belonged to the library of the Basel Charterhouse, whence it came to the University Library of Basel after the Reformation.
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