Sub-project: Digitization of all of the medieval manuscripts from Hermetschwil Convent
February - November 2016
Status: Completed
Financed by: swissuniversities
Description: The manuscripts of the Benedictine nuns’ Convent of Hermetschwil were digitized by e-codices in 2016, when the collection returned to the convent from its previous location in Sarnen. All 56 medieval manuscripts have now been published on e-codices. Regarding the manuscripts’ migrations, please see the newsletter on the completion of the project From Sarnen to Hermetschwil: a 170-year odyssey.
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This prayer book was probably written by a nun. The texts relate to the Communion. They serve as preparation before and thanksgiving after receiving Communion.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This small, thin booklet contains a series of prayers for personal use by a woman.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This manuscript contains texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. It was probably created at Muri Abbey and was meant for the Hermetschwil nuns’ convent. Fol. 125v shows one of the few remaining prints of the “Teigdruck” (paste print) technique: Barbara with a palm branch and a tower.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This manuscript consists of two originally separate parts: The first part contains various prayers; the second part, dated 16 November 1517, contains the “Grosse Gebet der Eidgenossen” (the great prayer of the Swiss confederates).
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This book, from the time around 1400, contains prayers and treatises for personal prayer. It has a limp binding of red leather.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This collection of prayers, which was in use in the Hermetschwil nuns’ convent since the 17th century, was dated 20 May 1505 by the hand of a second scribe. Earlier it was the property of Peter Affeldranngel and Elsbet Lötter from Zug.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
This prayer book from the first quarter of the 15th century, written in High Alemannic dialect, contains among other items the Hundred Meditations (“Hundert Betrachtungen”) by Henry Suso and an extract from the Eucharistic tract of Marquard von Lindau.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
This manuscript is a collection of German-language prayers, written mostly for a female worshipper. The idiom is High Alemannic.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This collection of prayers and treatises was written by Rudolf Schilling and is dated to 1493. An intercessory prayer mentions Duke Sigmund of Habsburg.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
This prayer book presumably is from the Bickenkloster St. Klara in Villingen. In addition to prayers, it contains various reflections and sermons, among them two new year’s addresses by Ursula Haider for the years 1496 and 1500.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
This prayer book from the third quarter of the 15th century contains prayers and treatises. It was used by the Hermetschwil conventual Margareta Attenriet († 1581).
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This prayer book is from the first quarter of the 16th century and was meant for a woman. It contains primarily prayers to Mary and the Liturgy of the Hours for the Passion of Christ.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
This manuscript contains the summer portion of a monastic antiphonary. The chants for the Liturgy of the Hours are given in square notation on four lines. Later additions by various hands from the 15th-17th century confirm that the manuscript was in use for a long period.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This monastic antiphonary contains the chants for the Liturgy of the Hours. Throughout, melodies are denoted by neumes without lines and by tonary letters. The supplements on paper are from the end of the 16th century.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
Lectionary from the second half of the 12th century or beginning of the 13th century from a Benedictine monasrtery in the southwestern German region, as indicated by the naming of various saints from this area. This is likely among the manuscripts brought to Hermetschwil by the nuns from the Double monastery of Muri. Adorned with many figured and historiated initials.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
This manuscript has not survived intact: the beginning, the end, and several quires from the middle are missing. The Latin texts for prayers and instructions for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours occasionally are accompanied by rubrics in German that refer to local customs.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This manuscript contains the prayers and instructions for the Liturgy of the Hours. It was made for the nuns of the double monastery of Muri; the manuscript came to Hermetschwil when the convent of nuns relocated there.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This Ritual contains a collection of benedictions and rites for the sacraments. The main part contains the most important benedictions during the liturgical year. Also included are the rite of baptism, the churching of women, the blessing for bridal couples and the sacraments for the sick. A separate part contains the benedictions for the various rooms of a monastery.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This manuscript was made for the female part of the double monastery of Muri since the prayers feature female terms. This work contains the readings, responsories and prayers for the Liturgy of the Hours; the Penitential Psalms; the benedictions for the daily life in the monastery; and the Office of the Dead.
Online Since: 11/10/2016
This psalter from the 12th century is part of a collection formerly owned by the library of the double abbey of Muri. It was later transferred to the monastery at Hermetschwil. The cycle of miniatures is incomplete; the calendar includes a series of necrological records.
Online Since: 06/22/2010