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Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWett 2
Parchment · 142 ff. · 14 x 10.5 cm · second half of the 13th century
Psalterium Feriatum; Collectae et Antiphonae OCist
This parchment manuscript was written in Latin in the second half of the thirteenth century. Cistercian in origin, it belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen since the beginning of the eighteenth century. The manuscript shows contemporary corrections as well as additions from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Online Since: 2025-12-11
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWett 5
Parchment and paper · 96 ff. · 13.5 x 9.5 cm · second half of the 15th century
Regula Benedicti, in German
The scribe Johannes produced this parchment and paper manuscript in the second half of the fifteenth century in High Alemannic dialect. The ownership mark has been erased; there is no evidence for the hypothesis of Albert Bruckner that the manuscript belonged to a convent of women.
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Online Since: 2025-12-11
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWett 7
Parchment · 412 ff. · 17 x 11 cm · last third of the 13th century, 14th and 15th century
Breviarium OCist
The production of this liturgical manuscript on parchment dates to different centuries. The first part was written in the last third of the thirteenth century, while the second part contains additions dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth century. The Latin codex belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis in Northern France. In the seventeenth century, the manuscript entered the possession of the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen.
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Online Since: 2025-12-11
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 4
Parchment · 233 ff. · 34.5 x 24.5 cm · after the middle of the 13th century
Lectionarium officii OCist
This Lectionarium officii is a parchment manuscript written in Latin after the mid-thirteenth century. Its origin is unknown, but in the seventeenth century the codex entered the possession of the Cistercian abbey of Wettingen.
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Online Since: 2025-12-11
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurFm 5
Parchment · 300 ff. · 49 x 36 cm · last quarter of the 15th, first quarter of the 16th century
Graduale, pars de sanctis
Second volume (sanctorale) of the two-volume gradual, which Abbot Laurentius of Heidegg from Muri Abbey purchased from the convent of canonesses at Säckingen in 1532, after the furnishings of Muri Abbey, along with the liturgical books, were destroyed in the Second War of Kappel. The abbot had the large pen-flourish initial at the beginning painted over with the miter, the abbatial crozier, his own coat of arms and that of the abbey.
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Online Since: 2018-10-04
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurFm 6
Parchment · 303 ff. · 51-52 x 34 cm · 15th century
Antiphonarium OCist, Pars hiemalis
First volume (winter part) of the two-volume antiphonary with the chants of the Liturgy of the Hours; it was used alternately with MsMurFm9. This large-format manuscript from the 15th century is largely unadorned. On the basis of the responsories of the Advent season, it can be assigned to the Cistercian Order.
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Online Since: 2020-06-18
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurFm 9
Parchment · 383 ff. · 50 x 34 cm · 15th century
Antiphonarium OCist, Pars aestvalis
Second volume (summer part) of the two-volume antiphonary that was used alternately with MsMurFm6. This large-format manuscript from the 15th century is largely unadorned. On the basis of the feasts of saints (Bernard of Clairvaux, Edmund of Abingdon, Robert of Molesme), it can be assigned to the Cistercian Order.
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Online Since: 2020-06-18
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 1
Parchment · 325 ff. · 23 x 16–16.5 cm · second half of the 14th century
Breviarium monasticum
This breviary from the second half of the 14th century contains the texts for the Divine Office for the entire liturgical year. According to the wording of the prayers and the rubrics in German, it was meant for a convent of Benedictine nuns; several antiphons suggest the area around Engelberg Abbey and Muri Abbey.
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Online Since: 2019-03-29
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 2
Parchment · I + 6 + I ff. · 23.5 x 17 cm · end of the 15th, beginning of the 16th century
Kalendarium murense
This late 15th or early 16th century calendar, consisting of only six leaves, contains in addition to the feast days and the saints also the Dedicatio Murensis. After the Reformation, the abbots Christoph von Grüt (1549-1564), Hieronymus Frey (1564-1585) and Jakob Meyer (1585-1596) used it to record the dates of their entry into the monastery, their election as abbot, the death of their successor and other events at the monastery.
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Online Since: 2018-10-04
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 4
Parchment · 138 ff. · 17 x 12.5–13 cm · 14th century
Sermones · Franciscus de Maironis
This 14th century parchment volume is of Franciscan origin and consists of two different parts. The first part is an incomplete cycle of sermons for the feasts of the Lord and the feasts of the saints; the second part contains the Moralia by the Parisian philosopher Francis of Meyronnes.
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Online Since: 2019-03-29
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 5
Parchment · 539 ff. · 21 x 15 cm · around 1300, 14th century, around 1500
Breviarium ordinis Praedicatorum
This extensive breviary, with rubrics in German, was produced around 1300 for a convent of Dominican nuns. Over the next two centuries, various hands added new rhymed offices to the end, most of them to Dominican saints. In the 17th century, the breviary was the property of Wurmsbach Abbey, a convent of Cistercian nuns on Lake Zurich.
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Online Since: 2020-06-18
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 6
Parchment · 91 ff. · 17 x 12.5 cm · 1483
Missale OFM
This small format missal, written in 1483, was used by members of the Franciscan order, as can be deduced from the calendar that precedes it. In the 16th century, it belonged to Rudolf Gwicht, Conventual at Muri, who later became abbot of Engelberg Abbey. In the calendar, he recorded his entry into the monastery and added his coat of arms to the back pastedown.
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Online Since: 2018-10-04
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 7
Parchment and paper · 357 ff. · 19.5 x 13.5 cm · second half of the 14th century and second half of the 15th century
Breviarium monasticum
This monastic breviary was written in the second half of the 14th century for a Benedictine monastery; judging by the antiphons, it was perhaps written for Muri Abbey. At the end, a later hand added paper leaves to the parchment manuscript and entered the Offices of the Virgin and of Martin. In the 16th century, this breviary was the property of the Benedictines of Muri.
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Online Since: 2018-10-04
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 11
Paper · 97 ff. · 21 x 14.5 cm · middle of the 15th century, second half of the 15th century
Letter writing guide
This guide brings together two 15th century collections that were created independently of one another. The first, longer one is from the area around Rottweil, while the second, shorter one is from the area around Muri. Both provide models for formulating purchases and obligations, collateral and sureties, donations and inheritances, and they both contain letters dealing with the courts.
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Online Since: 2019-03-29
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 12
Paper · 112 ff. · 20.5–22 x 14–15 cm · third quarter of the 15th century, beginning of the 15th century
Pharmacopoeia
This Pharmacopoeia is an unorganized collection of prescriptions in German for diseases of all kinds, interspersed with recipes for cooking and with short medical treatises. Several prescriptions and treatises mention medical authorities such as Mesue, Bartholomew, Hippocrates and Galen, Heinrich Fründ, Johannes Minnch, Meister Heinrich and Vitalis de Furno. Various scribes contributed to this manuscript during the third quarter of the 15th century.
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Online Since: 2019-03-29
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWett 4
Parchment · 112 ff. · 16 x 11.5 cm · second half of the 13th century
Richardus de Sancto Victore; Hugo de Sancto Victore; Augustinus; De canone mystici libaminis; Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis
This composite manuscript from the second half of the 13th century is written in early Gothic minuscule; it consists of five parts. Among other items, it contains the Beniamin minor by Richard of Saint Victor, various writings by Hugh of Saint Victor, the De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum by Augustine and the De cognitione humanae conditionis by Bernard of Clairvaux. The last page contains notes about recipes and healing blessings.
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Online Since: 2015-12-17
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 1
Parchment · 334 ff. · 40 x 30 cm · 1260-1280
Biblia sacra
Part (Genesis-Ezra) of an illuminated three-volume bible (of which MsWettF 1 and MsWettF 2 remain), probably bequeathed to the cloister of Wettingen by Rudolph Schwerz, choirmaster of the Grossmunster Cathedral of Zurich and pastor of Altdorf.
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Online Since: 2010-11-04
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 9
Parchment · 260 ff. · 30.5 x 21 cm · second quarter of the 14th century
Petrus Comestor; Alexander de Villa Dei; Petrus Pictaviensis
Composite manuscript from the second half of the 14th century. The main part contains the Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor (1r-235v), augmented with various texts about the genealogy of Christ. The manuscript contains numerous graphic representations and illuminated initials which indicate provenance from Basel. The many holes in the parchment are artfully patched with embroidery. The manuscript originated in the Cistercian Monastery Maris Stella, Wettingen.
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Online Since: 2014-12-18
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 10
Parchment · 127 ff. · 29-29.5 x 19.5-20 cm · second half of the 12th century
Gospel Book OCist
The manuscript called “Evangelia ad Missas” contains the Gospel readings for mass during the course of the year according to the Cistercian liturgy. It was written in the second half of the 12th century and is thus older than the Cistercian Wettingen Abbey, which was founded in 1227. It is not known in which monastery this manuscript was written and decorated with multi-colored initials with scroll ornamentation.
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Online Since: 2020-12-10
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 11
Parchment · 417 ff. · 31.5 x 22.5 cm · third quarter of the 13th century
Biblia Sacra . Short tract „De fructibus carnis et spiritus“
This manuscript, which probably originated in a German-speaking region, contains a Biblia sacra decorated with numerous initials with a gold ground, as well as the short tract entitled De fructibus carnis et spiritus, attributed to Hugo of St. Victor or Conrad of Hirsau, with two schematic diagrams. During the 16th century the richly decorated manuscript was owned by Christoph Silberysen, Abbot of the Cistercian cloister at Wettingen.
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Online Since: 2010-11-04