Gravisset, Jakob von (1598-1658)
Latin Bible, designed as a pandect (i.e. in one volume), following the recension of Alcuin of York. Several copies of these Alcuin Bibles, manufactured in the scriptorium of St. Martin of Tours, have survived; with their finely graded hierarchy of scripts and harmonious proportions, they are considered monuments of Carolingian book production.
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Latin Bible, designed as a pandect (i.e. in one volume), following the recension of Alcuin of York. Several copies of these Alcuin Bibles, manufactured in the scriptorium of St. Martin of Tours, have survived; with their finely graded hierarchy of scripts and harmonious proportions, they are considered monuments of Carolingian book production.
Online Since: 10/07/2013
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The Liber de laudibus Sanctae Crucis (Veneration of the Holy Cross) consists of Carmina figurata by Abbot Hrabanus Maurus of Fulda. This exemplar, most likely produced in 831, is arranged to display an image portraying each episode on the left (23 of the 28 Figures are included), with the corresponding prose portrayal on the right. The second portion, also a prose text, is missing.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
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This Old French Bible du XIIIème siècle was compiled in Paris in the second half of the 13th century. The two parts (Cod. 27/28), kept in the Bugerbibliothek of Bern, are among the oldest surviving copies; independent of one another, they probably originated in Southern France. Cod. 27 is partially glossed; at one time it contained 31 superb miniatures, of which today twenty have been lost.
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This Old French Bible du XIIIème siècle was compiled in Paris in the second half of the 13th century. The two parts (Cod. 27/28), kept in the Bugerbibliothek of Bern, are among the oldest surviving copies; independent of one another, they probably originated in Southern France. Cod. 28, whose traces of use point towards Valencia, at one time it contained 52 superb miniatures, of which today six have been lost.
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This manuscript was created in Fleury; the first page is magnificently decorated with two large interlace initials, which represent a special type of insular decorative art. In addition to smaller pieces, this composite manuscript contains the epic poem De bello civili (Parsalia) by Lucan (middle of the 1st century) as well as a version of the Orestes myth by the African poet Dracontius (5th century). For the latter, this codex constitutes by far the oldest textual witness. The beginning of Lucan's text by is provided with an abundance of scholia; because of Cod. 370, which contains only scholia, they are known as the Commenta Bernensia.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hyginus, Mythographus (Author) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Manuscript from Brittany with the texts of the four Gospels, as well as the prologues and the chapter indexes for Mark, Luke and John. The artistic decoration comprises the 12 pages of the canon tables, the pictures of the evangelists dressed in priestly vestments, as well as initials at the beginning of each chapter and each Gospel. The rich interlace ornamentation suggests insular influences.
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This manuscript from Luxeuil contains the Geometry falsely attributed to Boethius, as well as geometric and gromatic excerpts from Cassiodorus, Isidore and the agrimensores. It probably formed a codex together with the Aratea (Cod. 88) and was given to the Strasbourg Cathedral by Bishop Werner I.
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- Agennius, Urbicus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Censorinus, Grammaticus (Author) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hyginus, Gromaticus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Sextus Iulius Frontinus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Aratea, translated into Latin by Germanicus, describe the 48 ancient constellations and the myths concerning their origins. They are among the most popular picture cycles of medieval monastery schools. The Bernese codex, produced in St. Bertin, is a descendant of the Leiden Aratea and contains scholia which have survived only in this codex.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
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- Avienus, Rufius Festus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Germanicus, Julius Caesar (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Werner, von Habsburg (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript was produced in multiple phases. The first two thirds, from the first decade of the fourteenth century, contain a fragment of the world chronicle ascribed to Baudouin d'Avesnes, and its illuminations can be attributed to a painter from the circle of Renaud de Bar in Metz. The last third, produced up to the middle of the fourteenth century, is composed of different devotional texts of a still poorly-studied corpus. Many of these texts can be found in other manuscripts that today can be found in Bern, Paris, and Metz, and can be ascribed to the later convent of the Celestines in Metz. This volume, which in 1570 was still in private hands, came to Bern in 1632 through Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Balduinus, de Avesnis (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Latini, Brunetto (Author) | Oglerius, de Locedio (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript contains a total of 21 texts of Old French literature; in part these are unique records that survive only in this manuscript. The major part consists of romances from the great saga cycles such as the Garin le Loherain, Perceval, etc., which often comprise several thousand verses; the manuscript also contains several prose chronicles such as Ernoul's history of the crusades and other smaller pieces of varied content. The manuscript is richly illustrated with several hundred large initials; it probably originated in Picardy.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
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- Alard, de Cambrai (Author) | Bernard, le Trésorier (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Ernoul (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hélinant, de Froidmont (Author) | Henri, d'Andeli (Author) | Huon, de Saint-Quentin (Author) | Pierre, de Beauvais (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript contains various texts in chronicle form, some of them rare, regarding worldly and ecclesiastical rulers. It is a heavily edited and corrected manuscript from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy, which contains characteristic writings in various black and brown inks and which is richly decorated with many calligraphic initials in different styles. Based on various supplements, the time of its writing can be dated quite exactly to the middle of the 11th century.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Aurelius Victor, Sextus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Busaeus, Johannes (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, Peraldus (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The so-called Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli is one of the most famous and most requested manuscripts in the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The manuscript is exceptionally richly illustrated; it is from a workshop in the circle of the imperial court in southern Italy. Neither the scribe nor the illustrator is known, but, the text was doubtlessly corrected by the author himself. The text, an epic poem in Latin in about 1700 distichs that has survived only in this manuscript, is divided into three books. The first two books describe the prehistory of Sicily and its conquest by the Staufers; the third book contains a poem in praise of the parents — Emperor Henry VI and his wife Constance, daughter and heir of King Roger II of Sicily — of the famous Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II, who was born on 26 December 1194 in Jesi near Ancona.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Caesar, Gaius Iulius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Ebulo (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript consisting of three parts, bringing together French translations of classic reports of voyages to the Far East. The manuscript, especially its first and third parts, is richly adorned with gold decoration and delicate scroll ornamentation in the margins, yet it contains no illustrations. Hand-painted coats of arms make it possible to identify the family de Pons de Saint-Maurice from the Périgord as a previous owner; later the codex was purchased by Jacques Bongars, who, towards the end of his life, was preparing a volume of source materials about travels to Asia.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guilelmus, de Boldensele (Author) | Het'owm, Patmič' (Author) | Johannes, Longus (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Bookbinder) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Nicolaus, Falconi (Translator) | Odoricus (Author) | Polo, Marco (Author) | Ricoldus, de Monte Crucis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which originated in the Benedictine Abbey St. Trinité de Fécamp, contains various works by Augustine: De opere monachorum; De fide et operibus; Contra Donatistas; De bono virginitatis; De bono conjugali; De bono viduitatis; De symbolo bono (sermo 215); De oratione dominica (sermo 56). The manuscript is significant as important testimony of French manuscript illumination of the 11th century as well as, due to its history, of the exchange of manuscripts among Norman monasteries.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This magnificent complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) was given to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Martin in Tours by the Levite Berno (note and book curse on f. 1v). Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. However, Cod. 165 does not present the true Scholia Bernensia as in Cod. 167 und Cod. 172, but rather a collection by various scholiasts which was compiled in Tours — hence the name Scholia Turonensia.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) is connected to Auxerre. In the beginning the manuscript contains numerous paratexts to Virgil, such as the vitae, Argumenta, etc.; beginning on f. 6v, the inner column is reserved for the text, the outer one for the scholia. Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which in this form have been transmitted almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. Cod. 167 presents the true Scholia Bernensia, but only the left column, not the right column of Cod. 172; whether it was copied from the latter remains in dispute.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This complete edition of the works of Virgil is from Fleury. This manuscript contains only the Bucolics, the Georgics and the first five books of the Aeneid; the second part with books VI to XII is now in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 7929). In the beginning the manuscript contains the so-called Vita Donatiana and various slightly later texts. It is made with great calligraphic care so that the central column is always bordered on the right and on the left by a column of scholia. Cod. 172 is the principal textual witness of the scholia (commentaries) by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the complete hagiographic works of Gregory of Tours, consisting of eight books of hagiographies. The manuscript is very close to Gregory's autograph (class 1a); it originated in the circles of the Reims scriptorium in the 9th century. Two pages of a Gospel of John in Merovingian script as well as a Vita of Paul of Thebes were bound into the volume.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius, Turonensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Cod. 207, presumably created in Fleury (St. Benoît-sur-Loire), is one of the few and by far the richest representative of a style that evolved in Fleury towards the end of the 8th century; with its extremely rich and high-quality artistic decoration, consisting of three ornamental pages and almost 140 initials, it is an outstanding example of the creative evolution that the insular language of forms underwent in the important cultural centers of the continent. The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval period: Bede, Donatus, Maximus Victorinus, Julianus Toletanus, Servius Honoratus, Asper minor, Sergius, Petrus Pisanus, Isidore, as well as numerous other anonymous treatises and excerpts.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
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- Asper (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Maximus, Victorinus (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Petrus, Pisanus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex consists of two parts that were united in the 9th century already. The first part, written in Mainz (ff. 1-110), contains the second book of Cassiodorus' Institutiones, which is devoted to secular knowledge; since the 9th century, it has been preserved in several manuscripts in an interpolated version that contains Cassiodorus' remarks on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, supplemented with excerpts from Quintilian, Boethius, Augustine and others. The second part, written in Mainz or in Saint-Amand (ff. 111–126), contains the picture poems of Optatianus Porphyrius as well as some from the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne. A note in Jacques Bongars' own hand indicates that the manuscript - like many others - came into his possession from the chapter library of Strasbourg Cathedral.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Josephus, Scotus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Guillaume de Marchaut was one of the most important poets and composers of the middle ages in France. His work is represented in the collection of the Burgerbibliothek Bern by a manuscript of the highest quality: the 13 column-width miniatures and many of the initials are polychromatic and accented with gold leaf. Notation provided with some of the songs makes this manuscript, easily datable by its scribal colophon, important to the study of music history.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guillaume, de Machaut (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript contains the second part of the Chronicle of Eusebius in the Latin translation and continuation of Jerome. The tables, generally laid out as double pages, are in the majority of cases condensed onto a single page. The book decoration is a superb example of pre-Carolingian manuscript illustration from the Frankish Empire and Northern Italy. From the detailed information on the title page, one can deduce that the text was written in 699; the Bernese Chronicle of Eusebius therefore is Switzerland's oldest dated manuscript.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Pithou, Pierre (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Extraordinary compilation of various texts by Isidore on secular (Etymologiae, De natura rerum) and ecclesiastic topics (Prooemia biblica, De ortu et obitu patrum; Allegoriae), as well as pieces on the Latin language (Differentia, Synonyma, Glossaria). This composite manuscript contains three full-page family trees as well as astronomical and geometric figures. Originally written in the scriptorium of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, probably in Saint-Mesmin-de-Micy, this volume was soon held in Strasbourg, as attested by various Formulae iuris as well as a glossary of herbs and an incantation. From the holdings of Jacques Bongars, the volume came to Bern in 1632; here the original early 8th century flyleaves (Bern Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 91.8) were removed around 1870.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This late 13th or early 14th century fragment of a French Trouvère manuscript probably was once part of the same codex as Paris, BN français 765. It contains 20 chansons, among them 14 by Thibaut de Champagne; all chansons are attested in a parallel version. 14 songs include square notation.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
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- Anonymus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Eustache le Peintre (Author) | Fauchet, Claude (Annotator) | Fauchet, Claude (Former possessor) | Gautier, d'Epinal (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guillaume, de Ferrières (Author) | Raoul, de Soissons (Author) | Steiger, Christoph von (Librarian) | Steiger, Karl Ludwig von (Librarian) | Thibaut I., Navarre, Roi (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Physiologus is an early Christian collection of naturalist allegorical descriptions, from which medieval bestiaries developed. Although Cod. 233 – as opposed to the famous Cod. 318 – contains just the Physiologus without illustrations, it is nevertheless the earliest representative of the important Latin textual recension B. Further parts of the former compound codex are in the Bibliothèque municipale of Orléans and in the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The volume came to Bern in 1632 from the possessions of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This 9th century manuscript is dedicated to the Artes; it consists of two parts, the first of which was written in Fulda around the second quarter of the 9th century. It contains the second book of Cassiodorus' Institutiones, which is devoted to secular knowledge; since the 9th century, it has been preserved in several manuscripts in an interpolated version that contains Cassiodorus' remarks on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, supplemented with excerpts from Quintilian, Boethius, Augustine and others. The second part was created a little earlier or simultaneously during the first third of the 9th century in Western France; it contains Alcuin's Dialectica and excerpts from Audax Grammaticus. The two parts were already combined in the 9th century and were held in France.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Audax, Grammaticus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of two parts. The first, Carolingian (fol. 1–12) with its original texts (fol. 1v–11v), reflects a meeting between Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières that occurred in June of 836 in Seligenstadt. Lupus received the arithmetic book (Calculus) by Victorius of Aquitaine along with a now widely known model alphabet for Ancient Capitals. Around 1000, texts by Abbo of Fleury on the ‘computus' (reckoning the date for Easter) were then added at the abbot's home monastery on the Loire (fol. 12–28), along with an abacus table (fol. 1r). The resulting collection of documents contains key items for and from Abbo's technical scholarship and offers a slightly divergent counterpart to the contemporaneous Floriacensis, Berlin, Staatsbibl., Phill. 1833.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Silvester II, Papa (Author) | Victorius, Aquitanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Fleury, consists of two independent parts. The first part (f. 1-47) comprises three commentaries on the Old and the New Testament; the second part (f. 48-192) consists of a total of 14 glossaries containing a total of about 25,000 lemmas. A particularity of this manuscript is that it shows different stages in the development of glossaries side by side. The first part represents an earlier stage with definitions of words in the order of the source text, also containing glosses in Old English and Old High German. In the second part the glossaries are already more developed with entries on individual authors or certain topics, ordered alphabetically by keywords.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Haimo, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Johannes, Scotus Eriugena (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This compilation of various legal texts, also known as Breviarium Alarici, probably is from the Upper Rhine area; it is preceded by two excerpts from Isidore's Etymologiae, which also pertain to laws, and by two full-page family trees. At the end there is a Latin-Hebrew-Greek glossary. This is an exceptionally colorful manuscript that gives the impression of being antique; it has a splendid title page, and it served as model for Johannes Sichard's edition of the Breviarium Alarici (which he considered to be the Codex Theodosianus), published by Heinrich Petri in Basel in 1528. The volume came to Bern in 1632 from the holdings of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Amerbach, Bonifacius (Former possessor) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Paulus, Iulius (Author) | Sichard, Johann (Former possessor) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The richly illustrated Prudentius manuscript, created around 900 in the region of Lake Constance, is counted among the outstanding examples of Carolingian book art. It contains all seven poems published by Prudentius in the year 405 as well as a later added eighth work. The codex was given to the episcopal church of Strasbourg by Bishop Erchenbald of Strasbourg (965-991) and later came into the possession of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/07/2013
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Erchenbaldus, Argentinensis (Former possessor) | Friedrich Kasimir, Pfalz, Pfalzgraf (Former possessor) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Iso, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of a single quaternio formerly bound with the present Cod. 250 of the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The quire continues the computistic content of the latter, here with Easter tables whose margins hold the Annales Floriacenses. The last page received a copy of Abbo's second letter to Giraldus and Vitalis.
Online Since: 12/18/2014
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- Abbo, Floriacensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A very interesting, completely edited and corrected manuscript of the three books of the Sententiae by Isidore of Seville. Compared to the main tradition, the form of the text is substantially different and contains numerous transpositions and additions. The manuscript was written at the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy, as evidenced by ownership labels (ex libris) written along the text area of each quire. In the middle there is a subsequently inserted binion (11th century), which contains, among others, parts of the Sermones by Fulbert of Chartres.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Eugenius, Toletanus (Author) | Fulbertus, Carnotensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The Physiologus is an early Christian collection of naturalistic and allegorical descriptions from which the medieval beastiaries are derived. Bern Cod. 318, which originated in the School of Rheims, contains, in addition to the Physiologus (fol. 7r-22v), the life of St. Simeon (fol. 1r-5r), the so-called “Chronicle of Fredegar” (fol. 23r-125r) as well as a pericope from the Gospel of Matthew with Latin translation by Ephraem of Syria (fol. 125v-130r). Owners of the manuscript included the humanists Pierre Daniel and Jacques Bongars, among whose library holdings this manuscript came to Bern in 1632.
Online Since: 07/04/2012
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Florus of Lyon († around 860) specialized in compiling patristic commentaries on the Epistles of Paul. This manuscript was written in France, probably in Auxerre, at the beginning of the 10th century, and is devoted exclusively to the compilation of the commentaries of Jerome and Gregory the Great. These two compilations are currently unpublished; however, the other two known texts have been digitized: Paris, BnF, lat. 1764 ff. 28r–97v and Paris, BnF, n.a.l. 1460 ff. 82r–169v.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Florus, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript is part of a substantial Carolingian composite manuscript, the surviving parts of which today are held in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Cod. 330, 347, 357), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (Ms. Lat. 7665), and in the Universitätsbibliothek Leiden (Voss. Lat. Q 30). Cod. 347 contains the first part of the volume with astronomical excerpts and diagrams from Macrobius and Pliny, as well as the beginning of Nonius Marcellus.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Nonius, Marcellus (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Evangelary from Fleury, with the texts of the four Gospels, each preceded by two chapter indexes. Attached to the beginning is a quaternio with letters from Jerome to Pope Damasus and from Eusebius to Cyprian. The artistic decoration includes 15 canon tables as well as a picture of the hand of God with the symbols of the evangelists.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript is famous primarily for its rich collection of Old French Fabliaux, a considerable number of which survive only in this manuscript; it also is considered among the most important textual witnesses for the fragment of the Sept sages de Rome and for Perceval. Because of its great importance to French poetry, it was lent to Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, was temporarily lost, and had to be re-bought by the municipal library of Bern at great expense in 1836.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
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- Adam de Suel (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Chrétien, de Troyes (Author) | Estienne, Henri (Annotator) | Estienne, Henri (Former possessor) | Gautier, le Long (Author) | Goldast, Melchior (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Huon, de Cambrai (Author) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Manuel, Jacques Antoine (Former possessor) | Païen, de Maisières (Author) | Raoul, de Houdenc (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript is part of a substantial Carolingian composite manuscript, the surviving parts of which today are held in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Cod. 330, 347, 357), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (Ms. Lat. 7665), and in the Universitätsbibliothek Leiden (Voss. Lat. Q 30). Cod. 357 contains: on ff. 1–32, the second to last part of the volume with various glossaries and excerpts from Sallust; on ff. 33–41, the rest of Nonius Marcellus (continuation from Cod. 347), the oldest surviving textual witness of Petronius' Satyricon, as well as a fragment of a poem about weights and measures.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius (Author) | Nonius, Marcellus (Author) | Petronius, Arbiter (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Rhemmius, Fanninus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
One of the earliest and most famous manuscripts of Valerius Maximus; its importance lies in the autograph reworkings by Lupus of Ferrières. Lupus himself wrote the Exempla and the comment on the sometime "flyleaves" (f. II-III), repeatedly collated the main text, added supplements from the parallel transmission of Iulius Paris (an abbreviator of Valerius Maximus) and also its accompanying text (Gaius Titius Probus: De praenominibus; f. 158va-159r). In making the fresh description a hitherto unnoticed letter- or charter-like text was discovered on the last page (f. 159v).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Iulius, Paris (Author) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Annotator) | Titus Probus, Gaius (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Reims, consists of two parts that contain only the scholia on Lucan, but not the actual text. The first part (up to f. 125v) contains the scholia known as the Commenta Bernensia, which are preserved only in this codex. The text is interspersed with 21 simple schemata in color, geographic representations as well as plans of cities and of battles. The second, unfortunately incomplete part contains a collection of non-illustrated glosses (Adnotationes) for books 1 to 4 as well as 9 and 10 (beginning). As becomes clear from the content, the original plan of merging the Commenta and the Adnotationes into a single text was apparently abandoned in the middle of the first book of the Commenta, and the Adnotationes were copied separately in the last third of the manuscript (from f. 125v).
Online Since: 03/29/2019
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Frechulf (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript consists of three parts and was probably written in Picardy. The manuscript contains a rare legend of St. John, the Prophecies of Merlin, and the Tale of the Seven Sages of Rome; it was probably written for private use. Once owned by Isabel d'Esch, a member of one of the most important families of Metz, as can be determined from notes of ownership, the volume came to Bern in 1632 from the holdings of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Thierry, de Vaucouleurs (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Late 13th century songbook from Lorraine (Metz?); the manuscript has empty staves throughout. It contains 524 trouvère songs by anonymous as well as by named authors and includes various genres, religious texts and many songs that are transmitted only in this source.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
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- Adam, de la Halle (Author) | Andreus (Author) | Andrieu, Contredit (Author) | Andrieu, de Paris (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Aubertin, d'Araines (Author) | Aubin, de Sezanne (Author) | Audefroi, le Bastart (Author) | Badouin, des Auteus (Author) | Baude, de la Quarriere (Author) | Baudouin (Author) | Bestourné (Author) | Blondel, de Nesle (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Chanoine de Saint-Quentin (Author) | Chapelain, de Laon (Author) | Chardon, de Croisilles (Author) | Chrétien, de Troyes (Author) | Colard, le Boutellier (Author) | Colin, de Pansance (Author) | Colin, Muset (Author) | Conon, de Béthune (Author) | Craon, Pierre de (Author) | Cuvelier, Jean (Author) | Duchesse, de Lorraine (Author) | Gace, Brulé (Author) | Gaidifer, d'Avion (Author) | Garnier, d'Arches (Author) | Gautier, d'Epinal (Author) | Gautier, de Bregi (Author) | Gautier, de Dargies (Author) | Gautier, de Navilly (Author) | Gavaron, Grazelle (Author) | Geoffroi, de Chastillon (Author) | Gérard, de Valenciennes (Author) | Gille, de la Croix (Author) | Gille, de Viés Maisons (Author) | Gille, le Vinier (Author) | Gillebert, de Berneville (Author) | Gontier (Author) | Gontier, de Soignies (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guichard, de Beaulieu (Author) | Guillaume, de Corbie (Author) | Guillaume, de Ferrières (Author) | Guillaume, le Vinier (Author) | Guiot, de Brunoi (Author) | Guiot, de Dijon (Author) | Guiot, de Provins (Author) | Guy, de Coucy (Author) | Hendrik III., Brabant, Hertog (Author) | Herbert (Author) | Hugues, de Berzé (Author) | Huon, de Saint-Quentin (Author) | Jacques de Cysoing (Author) | Jacques, Bretel (Author) | Jakemes (Author) | Jaque, d'Amiens (Author) | Jaquemin, de la Vente (Author) | Jaufré, Rudel (Author) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Jean, de Neuville (Author) | Jean, le Taboureur (Author) | Jean, le Teinturier (Author) | Jehan (Author) | Jehan, d'Archis (Author) | Jehan, d'Auxerre (Author) | Jehan, D'Esquiri (Author) | Jehan, de Brienne (Author) | Jehan, de Roucy (Author) | Jehan, de Trie (Author) | Jocelin, de Bruges (Author) | Jocelin, de Dijon (Author) | Jofroi, Baré (Author) | Lambert, Ferri (Author) | Martin, de Beguin (Author) | Mathieu, le Juif (Author) | Moniot, d'Arras (Author) | Muse, en Bourse (Author) | Oudart, de Laceni (Author) | Perrin, d'Angicourt (Author) | Peter I., Bretagne, Herzog (Author) | Pierre de Beaumarchais (Author) | Pierre, de la Chapele (Author) | Pierre, II de Molins (Author) | Pierre, le Borgne (Author) | Pierrekin, de la Coupele (Author) | Raoul (Author) | Raoul, de Ferrières (Author) | Raoul, de Soissons (Author) | Renas (Author) | Renaut, de Beaujeu (Author) | Renaut, de Sableuil (Author) | René, de Trie (Author) | Richard, de Fournival (Author) | Rigaut, de Barbezieux (Author) | Robert, de Blois (Author) | Robert, de Castel (Author) | Robert, de la Pierre (Author) | Robert, de Memberoles (Author) | Robert, de Reins (Author) | Roger, d'Andeli (Author) | Roi, d'Aragon (Author) | Roi, Richart (Author) | Sauvage, de Betune (Author) | Sauvale, Cosset (Author) | Simart, de Boncourt (Author) | Simon, d'Autie (Author) | Sinner, Jean Rodolphe (Librarian) | Thibaut I., Bar, Comte (Author) | Thibaut I., Navarre, Roi (Author) | Thibaut, De Blason (Author) | Thibaut, de Nangis (Author) | Thomas, Erier (Author) | Vielars, de Corbie (Author) | Vilain, d'Arras (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This textual witness of the Rhetorica ad Herennium, erroneously attributed to Cicero, was produced in the Loire area. The manuscript gained great attention in the 19th century already because it contains a short library catalog from the 11th/12th century, which probably refers to books from the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy. The claim that the manuscript originated in Fleury, proposed by many earlier authors, is uncertain and has been rejected several times in recent times. This volume came to Bern in 1632 from the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
One of the oldest and most important manuscripts of the Alexander story by Curtius Rufus; it probably was copied on the initiative of Lupus of Ferrières at the local abbey. A quire bound in the front contains a collection of excerpts from the Pseudo-Isidorian papal letters (= false decretals) which has been preserved only here. This collection is larger than the related partial collection by Hinkmar of Laon and most probably stems from the common 'legal invention', which was thought to have been lost. The final pages of the manuscript contain a geographical index of the late Roman administration and notes on the city of Rome. This volume came into the possession of Pierre Daniel, who annotated it extensively; in 1632 the manuscript came to Bern as part of Jacques Bongars' collection.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hortin, Samuel (Librarian) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
This Merovingian composite manuscript, which was created in Bourges, originally consisted of six independent parts, which were written by different, often not very practiced hands in various phases. Most of the close to thirty individual pieces are texts from grammatical, patristic, computistic and medical works. The longer pieces are interspersed with further excerpts, partly written in Tironian notes. One quaternio from the only partially preserved third part is today held in Paris (BN lat. 10756). Noteworthy is the palimpsest in the fifth part, whose undertexts were probably written in Italy in the 7th century and in the second half of the 5th century respectively.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Asper (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Methodius, Olympius (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Author) | Pithou, Pierre (Former possessor) | Pomerius, Iulianus (Author) | Taio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf from a manuscript of unknown provenance containing Gregory the Great's Moralia in Hiob. The fragment arrived in Bern in 1632 as part of a printed volume (MUE Bong IV 251) that had been the property of Jacques Bongars; it was probably removed from the host volume in the 1930s.
Online Since: 07/02/2020
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
Fragment of a manuscript of the Institutiones grammaticae by Priscian, probably from the South of Germany; 10 more leaves from this manuscript can be found in Paris BN lat. 10403. f. 6–15. These four single leaves, inserted into a printed version owned by Jacques Bongars, came to Bern in 1632, where they were detached from their host volume in the 20th century.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Oberlin, Jeremias Jacob (Former possessor) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Two leaves that originally belonged together, from a copy of a document dated 8 March 1439; in 1935 they were removed during the restoration of Cod. 207 at the Burgerbibliothek Bern. In the text on f. 1r, Charles, Duke of Orléans and of Valois (1394-1465), and Jean the Bastard of Orléans (= Jean de Dunois, 1402-1468) are mentioned.
Online Since: 07/02/2020
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Bifolium from a manuscript of Gregory the Great's Homiliae in Evangelia. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
This quire of 8 leaves probably originated in the circle of John Scotus (in the area of Reims-Laon-Soissons). It contains a fragment of Augustine's Retractationes and, after that, some previously unknown exegetical texts on the Gospels. A leaf (f. 5) that is several decades older was inserted into the quire, possibly from the model used for this text; it contains another unknown text on the virtues and vices. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A single leaf of a manuscript of Juvenal's Satires from the library of Fleury. Other parts of this manuscript can be found in Orléans, BM 295; cf. Vatican, BAV Reg. lat. 980, f. 42, and Leiden, Voss lat. F12. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium of a manuscript of Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, which served as pastedown on the front board of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 47 (a homiliary from the Strassbourg Cathedral Libarary). This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Martianus, Capella (Author) Found in: Standard description
Leaf from a manuscript of Lucan's Bellum Civile. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
A heavily damaged leaf from a large-format manuscript that contained the late-antique commentary of Lactantius Placidus on Statius' Thebaid.This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lactantius, Placidus (Author) | Statius, Publius Papinius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Large-format bifolium from a manuscript of Dioscorides that was probably produced in Fleury. Other parts of it are conserved in Paris, BnF, lat. 9332. The script and decoration display Insular characteristics. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium and 3 fragments of another bifolium of a manuscript of Augustine's De genesi ad litteram, written in uncial script and possibly produced in Luxeuil; other parts were identified in Paris, BN lat. 9377. The manuscript came to Bern in 1632 from the holdings of Jacques Bongars. At the time of Hermann Hagen (around 1870), the fragments, originally bound as f. 1-2 and 227-229 in Cod. 224 (composite manuscript containing texts by Isidore), were removed and preserved separately; they were given a new binding by Johann Lindt in 1944.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium of a small-format manuscript with a prayer ascribed to Augustine, as well as a Biblical index that matches the content of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 706. The fragment probably formed the end of this manuscript, and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia from a manuscript of Ambrose's Hexameron, namely the beginning of Bern, Burgerbibiliothek, Cod. 585. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium of a manuscript with the remains of an antidotary in which have been added excerpts from treatises on precious stones. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Ambrosiaster (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Burchardus, Wormaciensis (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A fragment composed of two independent parts. The oldest part contains a commented version of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. Around the outside of the quire is a later bifolium (f. 1, 11), written in French with a legal or ecclesiastical list of names. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Aristoteles (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Four bifolia (= 1 quire) of a manuscript of Augustine's De vera religione, which probably was once in Fleury. It is the first quire of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 540, of which another part can be found in Città del Vaticano, B.A.V., Reg. lat. 1709. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A two-bifolia fragment of Boethius' De arithmetica. The manuscript was found in the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Martin in Séez. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia from a small-format manuscript containing medical recipes, perhaps connected to the Collectio Salernitana. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Ten leaves from a manuscript in two parts containing the medical treatises of Isaac Judaeus and Johannes Afflacius. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Afflacius Johannes (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Galenus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isaac, Iudaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Five leaves from a Fleury manuscript that contains, alongside medical recipes, the oldest treatise on the production of binding agents. Therefore, this text, which has only survived here, is extremely important for the understanding of the production and use of colors in the Middle Ages. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Four bifolia from a manuscript probably produced in Eastern France, containing a collection of greco-latin glossaries whose central part is transmitted in this form only here. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A collection of fragments from three different parts that contains various excerpts of texts by Remigius Altissiodorensis (A), Bernardus Silvestris (B), and Hildebertus Cenomanensis (C). The fragment, encompassing 16 leaves, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Alanus, ab Insulis (Author) | Bernardus, Silvestris (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hildebertus, Lavardinensis (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Solinus, Gaius Julius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Two bifolia from a collection that contains, alongside a fragment of Guido of Arezzo's Versus de musicae explanatione, other rhetorical, metrological, and philosophical treatises. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia of a manuscript probably produced in Fleury, containing musical treatises by Guido of Arezzo and illustrated with various diagrams. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium with juridical excerpts (on rights of succession) probably from the Novellae of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A leaf with extracts related to Lactantius and Boethius, but not more precisely identified. The fragment comes from Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 440, where it was originally bound with the beginning of the text – the offset of the decorated initial is still visible on the verso. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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A list of manuscripts from Fleury noted by Pierre Daniel on a page; all the manuscripts are today more or less securely traceable to the libraries of Orléans and Paris. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Scribe) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Two quires of a Latin glossary, belonging to the Aptet-type, that probably were produced in Northern France. A note indicates Pierre Daniel as a previous owner. The fragment, which perhaps belonged to the same manuscript as Cod. A 92.2, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Quire (5 leaves) of a heavily damaged Latin glossary that probably comes from Northern France and likely contains several types of glossary. The fragment, which perhaps belonged to the same manuscript as Cod. A 92.1, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Bifolium of a latin glossary of the type beginning with Abstrusa, probably from Septimania. The fragment, written in a Western Gothic minuscule, contains a beautiful decorated initial G on f. 2va; in 1632 it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Seven leaves from a Loire-area glossary, of which only the B-L section remains. The fragment was annotated by Pierre Daniel and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A bifolium-sized fragment of a large-format Bible from Fleury, with parts of Genesis; it contains numerous interlinear and marginal notes, including the name Ermenaldus, that were added shortly after the production of the text. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia (= 1 quire) from a manuscript from Northeastern France, containing the Synonyma falsely attributed to Cicero. The (Pseudo-)Hebrew terms with Latin translations on the last leaf are interesting. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
A quire of five bifolia from a small-format Boethius manuscript with parts of the De consolatione philosophiae as well as an explanation of the verse portions by Servatus Lupus. Probably produced in Fleury – there are different opinions on its dating and origin. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A fragment comprising 39 leaves (5 quires) and containing the majority of a Regula Benedicti copied in France. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars and was apparently bound many times (and erroneously).
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia of a manuscript, likely produced in France, of the Disticha Catonis, also containing the Ecloga Theoduli. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf from a manuscript probably produced in the Loire region and containing Livy's Periochae. The fragment was annotated by Pierre Daniel and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Livius, Titus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf of a manuscript produced in France and containing commentaries on Horace's Satires and Ars poetica. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf of a manuscript produced in France containing Horace's Odes, with the scholia of (Ps.-)Acron. The manuscript, of which further parts are found in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1675, belonged to Pierre Daniel. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Acro, Helenius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf of a manuscript produced in Italy and containing Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Two bifolia from a manuscript produced in France containing Horace's Odes; on f. 1r there is a collection of Latin sayings. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 from the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf from a manuscript likely produced in Brittany and containing Serenus Samonicus' Liber medicinalis. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 from the collection of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Serenus, Quintus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf from a manuscript produced in France and containing the Disticha Catonis. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia of a humanistic manuscript perhaps produced in Italy. This beautifully illuminated fragment contains the beginning of Cicero's De amicitia and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia of a manuscript produced in France containing excerpts from Seneca's Epistulae morales as well as his vita. According to a note on f. 8v, the manuscript probably found itself in the region of Alençon in the 14th century. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
A single leaf from a manuscript produced in France and containing Priscian's Partitiones. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Two leaves of a manuscript probably produced in the Loire region with Isidore's De natura rerum. The second leaf contains a carefully drawn and illuminated map of the winds with the Latin and Greek names of the winds. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Single leaf from a manuscript likely produced in Eastern France containing excerpts from the Annales Laurissenses or the Annales Mettenses. The text deals with the events of 783 to 785. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
4 leaves from a manuscript possibly produced in Fleury with grammatical content, including a Carolingian commentary on Donatus. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Two bifolia from a manuscript produced in Fleury; in addition to Phocas' grammar, the fragment contains excerpts from Priscian as well as a poem on Saint Benedict. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Marcus, Casinensis (Author) | Phocas (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Six leaves from a medical manuscript that was produced in France. In addition to excerpts from the Dynamidia, the fragment contains medical recipes and blessings. It came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
9 leaves (probably 1 quire) of a manuscript produced in France. The fragment contains passages from the eighth book of Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, as well as grammatical excerpts. It came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Martianus, Capella (Author) Found in: Standard description
A ten-leaf fragment of French origin, coming from two different codicological units. Part A (the two outer bifolia) contains a text on the twelve gems as well as various medical treatises. Part B holds parts of the second book of Isaac Judaeus' Practica, in the Latin translation of Constantinus Africanus, as well as a few medical recipes. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Constantinus, Africanus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isaac, Iudaeus (Translator) Found in: Standard description
Three leaves from a manuscript produced in France. The leaves chiefly contain a text, probably excerpted from various sources, on the twelve gems as well as medical recipes. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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- Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description