| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | Überlingen, Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek | 1 |
| Austria | St. Paul in Kärnten, Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal | 1 |
| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| France | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France | 1 |
| United States of America | Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art | 1 |
| Russia | St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia | 1 |
Number of manuscripts: 20
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 95.10
Parchment · 8 ff. · 32 x 24 cm · France · End of the 14th century
This fragment contains two texts that were popular in France at the time: the French translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae by Boethius and of the confort d’ami by Guillaume de Machaut. The 8 pages are from a rich collection of fragments in the Burgerbibliothek of Bern; they were digitized as a complement to the library’s magnificently decorated Machaut manuscript (Cod. 218).
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 81
Parchment · III + 34 + III ff. · 27.5 x 19.5 cm · Cologne · 15th century
This Hebrew manuscript from the 15th century combines liturgical texts and commentaries on the rites that provide the temporal foundation for the observation of Passover. The Passah-Haggadah, adorned with miniatures and rich illustrations, contains the complete liturgical version of the Exodus story. The first part of the manuscript contains the text of the Italian rite, the second part that of the Ashkenazi. This manuscript was written and illuminated by Joël ben Siméon, who signed his work with a Kolophon (f. 34r): I am Joel ben Simeon, called Veibusch Ashkenazi – blessed be his memory – and I am from Cologne, which is on the banks of the Rhine.
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
Parchment · 292 ff. · 42.5 x 26.5 cm · Italy · 14th century
This 14th century Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental work which attests to the 14th century’s interest in the history of Roman law. It comprises various reference texts, which are systematically accompanied by the Glossa ordinaria, the so-called "Magna glossa" by Franciscus Accursius, an interlinear gloss and the gloss of the Gloss, which are works of explanation and instruction for the use of the text. Many manicules or fists (lat manicula, ae: small hands) testify to the assiduous labor which a large number of readers have performed on this dry text. This manuscript contains numerous pecia marks. A detached page (f. 37bis) contains a poem to the reader by the Italian jurist Angelus Boncambius (about 1450).
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 101
Parchment · 60 ff. · 19.6 x 13 cm · Italy (?) · 12th century
Contains Juvenal’s Satires (I-XVI) with glosses, which are probably from the commentary by Pseudo-Cornutus. Glued onto both inside covers are fragments from a 14th century manuscript written in Dutch, which contain a part of the poetic work Martijn by Jacob Van Maerlant, one of the greatest Flemish poets of the Middle Ages.
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
Parchment · I + 158 ff. · 31.9 x 21.7 cm · Italy (Naples?) · 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
This manuscript contains works by Lactantius, written in an Italian humanistic script in the second half of the 15th century. The book decoration consists of numerous initials with bianchi girari (white vine scroll), with side borders and with a frontispiece decorated along three sides with bianchi girari and with naturalistic elements: birds, butterflies and a donkey. In the bottom margin, two putti hold a laurel wreath surrounding the coat of arms of the person who commissioned the work, a member of the Aragonese royal family of Naples, probably Ferdinand I, King of Naples (1458-1494). An old signature confirms that the manuscript is from the library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples.
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 125
Parchment · I + 199 + I ff. · 29.1 x 19.2 cm · Italy · 14th century (about 1320?), notes from the 14th-15th century
This manuscript from Italy contains Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands from the 15th century. Four types of notes can be discerned: structuring, lexical and philological, intertextual and commenting, which testify to the vitality of Ovid’s text in the 14th century and up to the beginning of the modern era. The frontispiece is decorated with a letter surrounding a portrait of the author during the composition of his work, as well as a side border bearing an angel with red wings.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 27(1195)
Parchment · 140 ff. · 15.5 x 9.5 cm · Northern Italy, Switzerland (?) · 8th/9th century and 9th century (second third)
The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24)was written by various inexpert hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to the 8th/9th century and localized in a scriptorium in northern Italy or in Switzerland. The second part (25-140) is dated to the second third of the 9th century.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 60(580)
Parchment · a-b, I-II + 192 + y-z pp. · 28.8 x 13.5/13.7 cm · Western Germany (?) / Einsiedeln · 9th century (second third) and 10th century (second half)
Composite manuscript consisting of two parts, which were joined in the 14th century at the latest, as confirmed by the dating of the binding. The first part (1-85) contains Alcuin’s commentary on Genesis and is dated to the second third of the 9th century; some researchers localize this manuscript in western Germany, others in Raetia. The second part (87-191)contains the Partitiones by the grammarian Priscian and was written in the second half of the 10th century in Einsiedeln. A letter, sent by Heinrich II. von Güttingen, Abbot of Einsiedeln (1280 to 1299), to the vice-chaplain of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul on the island Ufenau, is copied onto the last page.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 157(372)
Parchment · 280 pp. · 29.5 x 15.8 cm · Swiss Scriptorium (?) · 8th/9th century
This manuscript contains the homilies of Gregory the Great on the prophet Ezekiel. It is written by various hands in a minucule which in general is close to the Raetian minuscule. Some researchers attribute the manuscript to a Swiss or Raetian scriptorium. A part of pages 204 and 206 and the entire page 214 are written in uncial script. The mansucript contains numerous initials with geometric and vegetal elements, similar in style to the Remedius-Sacramentary (Cod. Sang. 348). The maniculae by Heinrich von Ligerz confirm that the manuscript was in Einsiedeln in the 14th century already.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 172(1128)
Parchment · 216 pp. · 17.1 x 14.0 cm · 1st part perhaps Reichenau; 2nd part Reims · 3rd third of the 9th century and 8th/9th century
This two-part composite manuscript contains various grammatical texts. Probably the two parts were combined when the manuscript was rebound in the 14th century; since then, it has been in the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln. The first part (2-110) was probaby copied in Reichenau in the 3rd third of the 9th century. The second part (111-215) is older and was perhaps written in Reims in the 8th/9th century. Certain scholars (Bruckner) suggest that the script of the second part may be Raetian.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 236(491)
Parchment · I-II + 148 + y-z pp. · 25.8 x 16.8 cm · Switzerland / possibly Northern Italiy (Taufers?) · 9th century (first half) and 14th century
This composite manuscript consists of five parts. The first part (1-93) contains an exemplar of the Benedictine Rule, which was probably brought to Einsiedeln by Saint Meinrad († 861). From the viewpoint of textual-criticism, the text belongs to the group of Textus receptus of the Benedictine Rule, as it is found in northern Italy and in Montecassino in the 8th/9th century; noteworthy are the many interlinear glosses. The other parts of the composite manuscript contain: a Martyrologium (93-108), a Breviarium Apostolorum (98-99), two hymns (100), and a poem composed by Heinrich von Würzburg (109-148).
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 264(731)
Parchment · a + II + 176 + z ff. · 21.0 x 13.5 cm. · Disentis · 9th century (about middle)
This manuscript (9th century) from Disentis contains the Recognitiones of Pope Clement I in the Latin translation of Rufinus of Aquileia. Books IV-VI and individual chapters are missing.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 347(975)
Parchment · a-b + 458 + y-z pp. · 19 x 15 cm · Rätien · 8th/9th century
This manuscript, written in Rhaetian minuscule, contains selected chapters of the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 610(88)
Parchment · A + 648 pp. · 33.5 x 23.5 cm · Einsiedeln (?) · 14th century (before 1314)
This antiphonary was written by order of Abbot Johannes I of Schwanden for the liturgy of the Hours of the monastic community of Einsiedeln. Together with Cod. 611-613, this manuscript attests to the introduction of Guido of Arezzo’s (Guido Monaco’s) system of musical notes with square notation.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 24
Parchment · 366 ff. · 19 x 14.3 cm · Besançon · 13th/14th century
Breviary, rubricated red and blue, with numerous initials on a gold background as well as drolleries at the lower margin. Calendar with the signs of the zodiac and with agricultural tasks to be carried out in each month. Particularly worthy of emphasis are the full-page representations of St. Christopher (p. 176), of the Adoration of the Magi (p. 178), and of Christ on the Cross (p. 179). Based on the mention of saints in the calendar and in the rest of the manuscript, it was probably created in Besançon. From there, by unexplained means, it came into the possession of the patrician family Wallier of Solothurn: owners’ entries by Guillaume Wallier (16th century) and Henri Wallier (1605) on p. 4 and p. 731, the latter’s also on the front cover. On p. 90 of the 1858 catalogue of the cantonal library of Thurgau, the provenance is given as Fischingen. Possibly the mansucript reached Fischingen by means of one of the two abbots of Fischingen from Solothurn, Augustin Bloch from Oberbuchsitten (1776-1815) or the last Abbot of Fischingen, Franz Fröhlicher from Bellach (1836- 1848).
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 80
Paper · 231 ff. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · region of Lake Constance · 1460-1470
This composite manuscript was produced between 1460 and 1470 in the region of Lake Constance. Perhaps it was held for some time by the Ittingen Charterhouse near Frauenfeld. It contains late medieval sacred and profane texts, which were published for the first time in part based on this manuscript, such as Die fünf Herzeleid Mariä, the Frauenfelder Passionsgedicht or the novel in proseWillehalm, as well as an excerpt from the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit by Henry Suso.
Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 10
Parchment · 160 ff. · 30.5 x 22.5 cm · Engelberg (?) · around 1175
This manuscript was probably created in Engelberg Abbey around 1175, as the type of writing and a note within the manuscript (c. 8va) seem to confirm. It contains additions and annotations from around 1400. The manuscript’s main text contains a copy of the so-called Reichenauer Kaiserchronik by Hermannus Augiensis (or Hermannus Contractus) and of the Excerpta of the continuation of the Chronicle by Bertholdus Augiensis. Among the notes added in the first half of the 14th century is one attesting to the transfer of the diocese from Windisch to Constance at the time of King Dagobert (29v). The last page contained notes about the history of Muri Abbey in the 14th and 15th century, which were probably removed in the 19th century. This manuscript is mentioned in the 1744 list of Muri manuscripts, but probably it was already held by the abbey around 1500.
Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 4
Paper · 416 ff. · 13.4 x 9.8 cm · Awendants, Khizan in the Province Van · 1647
Liturgical manuscript (Sharaknots), written by the copyist Awetis in Khizan in the province Van in the year 1647 (1096 according to the Armenian calendar). It contains 11 large miniatures and 28 miniatures in the margins, executed and signed by the painter Yovanes Gharietsi. He was one of the most fascinating artists of the late School of Vaspurakan. The manuscript is part of certain hymnals, created for private customers in the region of Lake Van and characterized by bright colors and interlace ornamentation. The manuscript features the Armenian Khaz-notation. The text contains the collection of hymns in use in the Armenian Church, in the same order as in a Hymnarium printed as a first edition in Amsterdam in the year 1664. Three more hymnals of this type, also the result of the collaboration of these two artists, are known: two in Jerusalem and one in Jerewan. Attached in the beginning and at the end are two sheets of parchment containing a part of the Proprium de Sanctis from a Latin breviary from the 13th/14th century.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 1
Paper · 105 ff. · 33 x 22 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · second half of the 15th century (about 1470)
This manuscript contains the Psalms, ordered according to the arrangement of the liturgy of the hours, in Latin and each followed by the German translation. It was copied by two woman scribes, nuns in the Dominican Convent of St. Katharina in St. Gall. One hand is probably that of Angela Varnbühler. The binding consists of simple wooden tablets, covered in leather without any ornamentation, which is typical for the first phase of the St. Katharina scriptorium; it constitutes an additional element to attest to the origin of the manuscript.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M VII
Parchment · 24 ff. · 22 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · 15th century (1484?)
Processionale copied by the Dominican nuns of the Convent of St. Katharina of St. Gall in the second half of the 15th century. The manuscript is written in textualis by the hand of the same nun who copied the Processionale M VIII, perhaps also the Processionale M VI as well as the manuscript which today has the signature Cod. Sang. 1914. It might be the manuscript ij nv́wi procesional, which was mentioned in the Chronicle (now „Konventsbuch“) in 1484 and which, according to the same source, was re-bound in the year 1485. The binding consists of simple wooden tablets, covered in leather without any ornamentation, which is typical for the first phase of the St. Katharina scriptorium; it constitutes an additional element to attest to the origin of the manuscript.