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Swiss Manuscripts

Location, Library Manuscripts
All libraries and collections981
Sion/Sitten, Archives du Chapitre/Kapitelsarchiv 5
Fribourg/Freiburg, Archives de l'Etat de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg 6
Bern, Burgerbibliothek 13
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne 2
Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek 10
Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne 4
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève 32
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek 51
Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium 10
Neuchâtel, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel 5
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer 101
Trogen, Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden 8
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 468
Solothurn, Domschatz der St.-Ursen-Kathedrale 3
Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek 1
Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster 8
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina 10
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek 13
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau 15
Sion/Sitten, Médiathèque du Valais 2
Orselina, Convento della Madonna del Sasso 4
Luzern, Provinzarchiv Schweizer Kapuziner Luzern 1
Aarau, Staatsarchiv Aargau 6
Beromünster, Stiftskirche St. Michael 2
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek 54
Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek 15
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers) 10
Bremgarten, Stadtarchiv Bremgarten 1
Sarnen, Staatsarchiv Obwalden 1
Schaffhausen, Staatsarchiv 5
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek 9
Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum 14
St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung 18
Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek 10
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek 45
Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek 12
Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek 2

Swiss Manuscripts Abroad

Country Location, Library Manuscripts
Germany Überlingen, Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek 1
Austria St. Paul in Kärnten, Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal 1

Dispersed Manuscript Parts Abroad

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
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Number of manuscripts: 12

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, P.15.fol.

Parchment · 140 ff. · 39.5 x 30 cm · St. Urban · middle of the 13th century

Cistercian Antiphonary (Sacred pieces)

Liturgical music to be sung during night prayer hours on the feasts of the saints, from the early period of the Cistercian cloister of Saint Urban. (kam)

Online since: 07/25/2006

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, P.19.fol.

Parchment · 239 ff. · 61 x 41 cm · Prague · about 1410

Cistercian Gradual (Winter Part)

Liturgical music for the singing of mass on Sundays and feast days in a Cistercian monastery, with decorations by the "Master of the Antwerp Bible of Konrad von Vechta", crafted in Prague shortly after 1400. (kam)

Online since: 12/12/2006

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc 34 4°

Paper · 180 ff. · 20 x 14,5 cm · 1402/1411

Engelbertus Admontensis; Marquard von Lindau

This manuscript contains two texts: the Speculum virtutis by Abbot Engelbert von Admont (ca. 1250-1331), which is a reflection on leadership in the Aristotelian spirit, and a tract by Marquard von Lindau (d. 1392) on the merits of all living beings based on their divine creation and on the merits of the human soul. (kam)

Online since: 12/21/2010

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, KB 35 quarto

Parchment · 202 ff. · 20 x 14–14.5 cm · Gelnhausen · 1453-1454

Composite manuscript with scholastic and homiletic contents

In addition to sermons and sermon-related material pertaining to Sundays, saints’ days and feast-days dedicated to Mary, the manuscript contains part of S. Bonaventure’s (1221-1274) commentary on the four books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, and the treatise De arca Noe by Marquard of Lindau (d. 1392). (kam)

Online since: 06/09/2011

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 39. fol.

Paper · 342 ff. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · January 5, 1460 - October 9, 1461

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

This manuscript contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Exodus and Leviticus, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 40. fol.

Paper · 391 pp. · 29.5 x 21-21.5 cm · March 7, 1460 – March 5, 1461

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

Commentaries by the Franciscan monk Nicholas of Lyra (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, I and II Samuel (I and II Kingdoms), with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 41. fol.

Paper · 320 ff. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · March 7, 1460 - March 5, 1461

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

Contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 42. fol.

Paper · 225 ff. · 28 x 20.5 cm · 1459

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

The commentary of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 43. fol.

Paper · 333 ff. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · August 27, 1460 - April 24 1462

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

The commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of I and II Kings (III and IV Kingdoms), I and II Chronicles, I and II Maccabees, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 44. fol.

Paper · 381 ff. · 28.5 x 21 cm · July 6, 1460 – May 6, 1462

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

Contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, and Sirach. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 45. fol.

Paper · 299 ff. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · December 4, 1459 – September 20, 1461

Nicholas of Lira, Commentary on the Bible

Contains the commentary of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament Books of Genesis, with illustrations produced in central Switzerland. (kam)

Online since: 03/22/2012

Luzern, Bibliothek des Romero-Hauses der Missionsgesellschaft Immensee (Depositum in der Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern), Cod.N.175

Paper · 379 ff. · 21 x 15,5 cm · Basel · 1516/1517

Elisabeth von Schönau, Mechthild von Magdeburg

The first part of this manuscript contains works by and about the mystic Elisabeth von Schönau (d. 1164) as translated into Allemanic: Liber visionum, Prophetia Elisabethae, Adiuratio conscriptoris, Liber viarum Dei, Liber revelationum de sacro exercitu virginum Coloniensium, Epistolae, Visio Egberti de Ursula, Epistola Eckeberti ad cognatas suas de obitu dominae Elisabeth. The second part contains the mystical tract by Mechthild von Magdeburg (d. 1282), Das Liecht der Gotheit in an Allemanic re-translation from the Latin. This is the only known textual witness of this version. (kam)

Online since: 12/21/2010
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