| 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: 15
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 19
Paper · 294 ff. · 36,4 x 27,2 cm · Hagenau · about 1450
The Frauenfeld history Bible (“Historienbibel”) was completed in about 1450 in the atelier of Diebold Lauber at Hagenau (Alsace) and revised somewhat later. It contains 80 illustrations, each showing the work of three separate hands. It was probably in the possession of the Cloister of Augustinian Canons at Kreuzlingen beginning in the 16th century.
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.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 102
Paper · 18 + 1 ff. · 31.0 x 20.1 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · about 1634
Chronicle of the Cloister of Fishingen by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk at the Carthusian monastery of Ittingen beginning in 1614), which is probably based on the Chronicle of Jakob Bucher, also a monk at the Ittingen monastary, whose Chronicle of the Cloister of Fishingen was completed between September 15, 1627 and September 14, 1628.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 103
Paper · 48 + 12 ff. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1630
The Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Gall by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian Cloister of Ittingen beginning in 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.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 104
Paper · 10 ff. · 31.7 x 20.4 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1630
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. John in the Thurtal by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen beginning in 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.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 105
Paper · 86 pp. · 31.0 x 20.8 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1614 and 1638
Chronicle of the cloisters of St. Katharinental, Töss and Berenberg as set down by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk in the Carthusian monastary of Ittingen beginning in 1614). Embedded within this volume is the "St. Katharinental Book of Sisters", in a hand from the end of the 17th century, which presents a version of the famous Book of Sisters from the 15th century that is extremely faithful to the original. An equally faithful version of the "Töss Book of Sisters" by Elisabeth Stagel is rendered in the same hand. The twelve lives from the "St. Katharinental Book of Sisters" found in the above mentioned chronicles are derived from those of Heinrich Murer, as demonstrated by a comparison with the "Helvetia Sancta" by Heinrich Murer.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 106
Paper · 98 ff. · 32.0 x 20.8 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1629
Chronicle of the Bishopric of Constance by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, member of the Carthusian convent at Ittingen beginning 1614). Heinrich Murer bases his Chronicle upon earlier works, including: the Chronicon of Hermannus Contractus (1013-1054), which was continued by his pupil Berthold von Reichenau through the year 1080 (1500-1577/78) and published in 1547/48; the Chronologia monasteriorum Germaniae praecipuorum by Caspar Bruschius (1518-1557), the Chronik von dem Erzstifte Mainz und dessen Suffraganbistümern (Chronicle of the Archdiocesan Abbey of Mainz and its suffragan bishoprics) by Wilhelm Werner, Graf von Zimmern (1485-1575); the historical work of Christoph Hartmann (1568-1637) of Frauenfeld, who was abbey librarian at Einsiedeln in his later years and who wrote the Annales Heremi Deiparae Matris in Helvetia together with Franz Guillimann. Murer’s Chronicle extends from the origins of what would later be the Diocese of Constance in Windisch in the year 411 under Bishop Paternus through the the year 1629 under Bishop Johannes VII.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 108
Paper · 11 ff. · 30.8 x 20.0 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1626
Chronicle of the Cloister of Kreuzlingen by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk in the Carthusian monastery of Ittingen beginning in 1614). Murer based his historical account of the Cloister of Kreuzlingen on older documents as well as on a list of abbots extending to 1626.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 109
Paper · 7 + 2 ff. · 31.4 x 19.5 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1629
The Chronicle of the Cloister of Eschenbach by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, member of the Carthusian convent at Ittingen beginning 1614).
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 110
Paper · 15 ff. · 31.7 x 20.4 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1614 and 1638
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.
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 112
Paper · 64 ff. · 32.0 x 20.6 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · about 1627
Chronicle of the Cloister of Reichenau by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen beginning in 1614), based on the Chronicle of Gallus Oeheim, Priest and Chaplain of the Cloister of Reichenau († 1511).
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 113
Paper · 62 pp. · 31.3 x 20.6 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · between 1614 and 1638
Three chronicles of the Abbey of All Saints 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).
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 115
Paper · 37 ff. · 31.4 x 20.8 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · after 1631
Chronicle of the Cloister of Wettingen by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, member of the Carthusian convent at Ittingen beginning 1614).
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 117
Paper · 18 ff. · 31.0 x 20.0 cm · Ittingen, Carthusian Monastery · 1614-1638
Chronicle of the Fraumunster, the Peterskirche, and the Wasserkirche in Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638). Murer cites the Tigurinerchronik of Heinrich Bullinger as the source of his Chronicle of the Peterskirche and both the Tigurinerchronik and the Schweizer Chronik of Johannes Stumpf as sources for the Chronicle of the Chapel “auf dem Hof”.