"Codex Florus dispersus” contains a virtual reconstruction of a manuscript of letters and sermons by Augustine. It was written by a single hand in a late 7th or early 8th century uncial script. The manuscript evidently originated in France, perhaps in Luxeuil or in Lyon. Originally the manuscript contained at least 30 quinions (at least 300 leaves), of which 117 leaves remain today. One part with 63 leaves from the original quires 4-11 is currently held in Paris (BnF, lat. 11641); after leaf 26 there could be inserted a single leaf which currently is held in St. Petersburg (NLR, Lat.F.papyr. I.1). Another part with 53 leaves from the original quires 24-30 is being held in Geneva (Bibliothèque de Genève, lat. 16). The outer leaf of each quire (quinio) is parchment, while the remaining leaves are papyrus. During the 9th century the volume was part of the library of Florus of Lyon, who added numerous marginalia to the manuscript in his own hand. "sine loco", codices restituti, Cod. 1 contains a virtual reconstruction of the surviving pieces in their original order. (flu)

This codex contains a virtual reconstruction of Engelberg Abbey Library’s Cod. 20 with the first volume of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Iob. It contains the first (ff. 6r-99r) and second part (99r-193v), each divided into five books. At the front of the volume there used to be a full-page illustration consisting of an artistic portrayal of Job with his three friends (upper half) and a portrayal of Gregory the Great and a writing monk (lower half), who according to custom represents Peter the Deacon (Petrus Diaconus). This leaf with a verse of dedication by Frowin on the back, the actual recto side, was carefully described by P. Karl Stadler in his hand-written catalog of 1787; this helped to identify the membrum disiectum, which is now held by the The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1955.74 (Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund), as unequivocally belonging to this volume. (flu)

Fewer than ten textual witnesses of Theodulf of Orléans’ († 821) version of the Vulgata have survived. Numerous fragments of such a 9th century Theodulf Bible from the collegiate church of St. Ursus in Solothurn, where it was cut up and used as binding material, have been preserved in the state archives of Solothurn and the central library of Solothurn. Virtual reunification of the fragments: [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 3 (Biblia Theodulfi Fragmenta). (hol)

A total of 23 leaves of a Fulda Legendary that originally consisted of six volumes, commissioned in 1156 by Rugger, monk at Frauenberg Abbey in Fulda (1176-1177 abbot of Fulda as Rugger II). The main parts probably were written by Eberhard of Fulda; the book decoration as well is very reminiscent of the Codex Eberhardi (Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv K 425 and K 426). Based on the numbering in the surviving indexes and at the beginning of the texts, the size of the collection can be projected to have been about 500 vitae and passions. Thus this work bears testimony to the efforts for not only the economic, but also the spiritual and cultural reform undertaken under Abbot Markward of Fulda (1150-1165); at the same time this work is the northernmost and probably the earliest of the surviving five- and six-volume 12th century legendaries from Southern Germany. Later it served as (indirect) model for the base stock of texts of the great Legendary of Böddeken, through which it remained influential for the Bollandists’ Acta Sanctorum and on into the modern times. The monumental Fulda Legendary was still used in Fulda in the middle of the 16th century by Georg Witzel (1501-1573) for his Hagiologium seu de sanctis ecclesiae (Mainz 1541) as well as for his Chorus sanctorum omnium. Zwelff Bücher Historien Aller Heiligen Gottes (Köln 1554). Fragments from the 3rd, 4th and 6th volumes are preserved in Basel, Solothurn, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. This indicates that at least the 3rd (May-June) and 6th (November-December) volumes of the legendary reached Basel, where both evidently were used as manuscript waste around 1580. (stb)

Remnants of an Alcuin's Bible, written in Tours in the early 9th century; from the Dominican Monastery of Bern; around 1495 the remnants were used as pastedowns for various incunables by the bookbinder Johannes Vatter. After the secularization of the monastery in 1528, the host volumes by various paths reached the Municipal Library of Bern and various libraries in Solothurn. Around 1945, the fragments BBB Cod. 756.59 (1 leaf), Cod. 756.70 (8 leaves and 1 strip) as well as Cod. 756.71 (2 leaves) were removed from the host volumes by Johannes Lindt; today they can be found in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (BBB). Also in situ, i.e., in incunables from the University Library Bern (MUE), is a further leaf (MUE Inc. I.20) or smaller fragments (MUE Inc. IV.77). In addition, the Central Library of Solothurn holds: Cod. S 458 (pastedowns) as well as S II 151 (detached fragments). (mit/hol)

Two successive bifolia of a Fulda manuscript from the 2nd third of the 9th century with the so-called Collectio Veronensis of the acts of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431. The codex was obviously used as waste paper in modern times in Switzerland. When and by what route it reached Switzerland from Fulda cannot be determined; however, it may have arrived there, like a number of other Fulda manuscripts, in the first half of the 16th century as a potential text source for prints by Basel print shops. (stb)

Henry Suso’s Buchlein der ewigen Weisheit is a fourrteenth-century devotional and meditational work, written in High Alemannic dialect. Meliora Muheim (d. 1630), later Prioress of the convent of Hermetschwil, acquired the parchment manuscript from a Zürich bookbinder in 1598 (Ir). (ron)

This small manuscript, written in Latin, comes from the fourteenth century. It contains chiefly a Compendium theologiae moralis, which comprises 224 chapters on the foundational concepts of the doctrine of the faith and on leading a Christian life. The origin of the manuscript is unknown. (ron)

This parchment manuscript was written in Latin in the second half of the thirteenth century. Cistercian in origin, it belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen since the beginning of the eighteenth century. The manuscript shows contemporary corrections as well as additions from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (ron)

The scribe Johannes produced this parchment and paper manuscript in the second half of the fifteenth century in High Alemannic dialect. The ownership mark has been erased; there is no evidence for the hypothesis of Albert Bruckner that the manuscript belonged to a convent of women. (ron)

The production of this liturgical manuscript on parchment dates to different centuries. The first part was written in the last third of the thirteenth century, while the second part contains additions dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth century. The Latin codex belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis in Northern France. In the seventeenth century, the manuscript entered the possession of the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen. (ron)

This Lectionarium officii is a parchment manuscript written in Latin after the mid-thirteenth century. Its origin is unknown, but in the seventeenth century the codex entered the possession of the Cistercian abbey of Wettingen. (ron)

Written in Latin at the beginning of the fourteenth century, this parchment manuscript contains the Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugh of Strasbourg (1210-1270) as well as the Quaestiones super quatuor libros Sententiarum of William de Rothwell, OP (ca. 1260). Probably at Wettingen in the fifteenth century, in the eighteenth century the manuscript was owned by the Cistercian Order in Wettingen. (ron)

Christoph Silberysens (1542–1608) wrote this miscellany between 1567 and 1589, with additions through 1604. Among other things, it contains texts on the history of the Confederation, travelogues, accounts of wars, storms, and celestial phenemona, as well as copies of charters. The manuscript is illustrated with color pen drawings – for example, illustrations of military parades – which were made by different artists. (ron)

The manuscript comes from the last quarter of the fifteenth century and is divided into two parts. The first part contains Latin sermons by Johannes von Gmunden (1380–1442) and others, while the second part has predominantly Latin tools for Biblical exegesis by Bindus Senensis († 1390) and Alexander de Villa Dei (1170–1250). Jacobus Brun owned the manuscript in the fifteenth/sixteenth century; in the sixteenth century, it belonged to U. or V. Knoll, probably Ulrich Knoll of St. Gallen, chaplain in Zurich, as well as to Rudolf Hofmann, chaplain in Zurich, Bremgarten, and Baden. (ron)

This paper manuscript contains the Vocabularius utriusque iuris, an alphabetically-ordered reference work of ecclesiastical and Roman law. It was written by Johannes Franz of Leipheim and finished on 23 October 1467. Johannes Frantz von Leipheim was a scribe in the service of Martin Rentz von Wiesensteig (d. 1503), who was active at the University of Heidelberg. Since the eighteenth century, the manuscript was in the possession of the Cistercians in Wettingen. (ron)

In 1720, the librarian Ignaz Pfyffer (1690–1736), commissioned by Abbot Franz Baumgartner (1652–1721) produced the Catalogus bibliothecae Maristellanae. The manuscript reflects the contemporary holdings of the Wettingen convent library. The catalogue, written in Latin, is illustrated with engravings that have been excerpted and pasted in. There are also ornamental decorations in the margins. The volume contains an alphabetical list of the book collection, an “Index geographicus”, and a Chronogram (p. 241). (ron)

The manuscript contains a Latin Bible from the second half of the thirteenth century. At the beginning it presents a text added later by the Wettingen monk Heinrich Sleli von Gunzikon. The binding dates from the seventeenth century and was later finished with a gold-embossed brown leather spine with a red label containing the script “Biblia sacra.” (ron)

This manuscript contains a collection of prayers in Bohemian; eight prayers are attributed to Johannes of Neumarkt (around 1310-1380), an early representative of Bohemian humanism. The manuscript is decorated with several red and blue initials. An image of the Arma Christi used to be glued onto f. 39r, of which only residue remains. (sau)

This large-format antiphonary, with rich fleuronné decoration from the second quarter of the 14th century, contains the chants of the Office from Pentecost to the beginning of Advent. It was written for the St. Leonhard Monastery of Augustinian canons in Basel and only came to Muri Abbey in modern times. (gam)