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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bifolia from a manuscript produced in France that, on the basis of a beautiful majuscule explicit, may have contained Jerome's commentary on Matthew. There follows a short orthography, an excerpt from Augustine, as well as the text by Eugenius Toletanus on the ten Egyptian plagues. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium from a manuscript produced in France. The fragment contains the accessus to Cicero's De amicitia as well as the beginning of a glossed version of Horace's Ars poetica. It came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of a manuscript probably produced in France containing Persius' Saturae. The fragment, with its numerous interlinear and marginal glosses, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two bifolia from a manuscript produced in France. The fragment contains, in addition to Walter Map's Praedicatio Goliae and the beginning of Hugh of Saint Victor's De quinque septenis, one or two homilies that have not yet been identified. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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A heavily damaged leaf from a manuscript produced in France, containing a list of French kings as well as Archbishops of Tours. The additions to the list extend into the second quarter of the 13th century. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of Paolo Emili's De rebus gestis Francorum. The fragment, written in a beautiful humanistic minuscule and later used as a book cover, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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4 bifolia (probably 1 quire) from a manuscript produced in Fleury. The content of the texts, which are partly designed as a student-teacher dialogue, ranges from orthography and grammer to the Artes liberales and the ages of the world to a glossary of the parts of the body. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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A heavily degraded bifolium from a manuscript produced in France containing Augustine's Principia dialecticae. Ownership marks indicate that, in the fifteenth century, the fragment belonged to Isabel d'Esch, a member of one of the most prominent families of Metz. It came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three large-format leaves from a manuscript produced in Eastern France and containing the Instituta coenobiorum of John Cassian. The fragment, probably taken from a medieval book binding, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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18 leaves (two whole quires and one bifolium) from a manuscript of the Cistercian abbey of Vauluisant. Additional parts of the manuscript are in Paris, BnF latin 2820. The fragment contains the end of Aelred of Rievaulx's Compendium speculi caritatis and the beginning of Alcuin's Compendium in cantica canticorum. In 1632, it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two bifolia from a manuscript produced in France and containing the last part of Petrus Alphonsi's Disciplina clericalis. In 1632, it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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This fragment consists of 8 leaves from a large-format manuscript that has long been associated with Theodulf of Orléans. It is actually a quire from Theodulf's composite manuscript of biblical exegesis, which had until now been thought lost; its remaining parts are contained in MS Paris, BN lat. 15679. The quire, now bound, contains the end of the commentary on the Psalms as well as the beginning of the commentary on the Proverbia Salomonis. Thanks to a partially erased note of ownership, it can be demonstrated that this fragment once was the property of the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy; in 1632 it came to Bern as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
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Sixteen leaves (= 2 whole quires) of a manuscript probably produced around Lyon and containing the Registrum epistolarum of Gregory the Great. The text, apparently compiled from the Registrum Hadrianum (R), indictio II, appears to have been prepared for copying as late as the 9th century. In 1632, it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium from a large-format manuscript produced in France that contained Fulgentius' Homilia de caritate. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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7 leaves of a manuscript probably produced in Eastern France and containing Peter Lombard's Prologus in Isaiam and other prologues to various biblical books. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia of a manuscript probably produced in the Orléans region and containing Ambrosius Autpertus' De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. The quire, which came from the Celestine abbey of Notre-Dame at Ambert, constituted the beginning of Bern, Burgerbibliothek Cod. 612. The fragment belonged to the Daniel family and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Sixteen leaves (= two whole quires) from a manuscript probably produced in France and containing Bernard of Pavia's Summa decretalium. In 1632, the fragment, illuminated in the Cistercian style, came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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5 bifolia (=1 quire) from a manuscript produced in France and containing the beginning of Constantine the African's Viaticus. In 1632, the simply-decorated fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium from a magnificently-illuminated manuscript produced in France and containing Boethius' Institutio musica, which once was in the library of the Sorbonne, as attested by the other parts of the same manuscript in Paris, BnF latin 16652 (olim Sorbonne 909). In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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An extensive part (18 leaves) of a large-format homiliary, probably coming from the Loire area, and decorated with various initials in a Romanesque style. The leaves, which belong to at least three different quires, are today heavily damaged and bound together. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars. In the 20th century, a leaf was lost and was found again in Zurich in 1944.
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Single leaf of a manuscript produced in France and containing Peter Lombard's Sentences. It was probably later used as a limp binding. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf from a manuscript probably copied in Eastern France. The unfinished leaf of Augustine's De adulterinis coniugiis was probably later used as flyleaf of a manuscript containing Isidore's Etymologies. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of a manuscript produced in France and containing the Gesta Treverorum. Other parts of this manuscript can today be found in Paris (BnF, latin 5873) and in the Vatican (B.A.V., Reg. lat. 1283). In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (= 1 quire) of a manuscript that contained the treatise De eruditione religiosorum by (Pseudo-)Humbert of Romans, which recently was ascribed to Guilelmus Peraldus. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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A single leaf in two halves from a manuscript probably produced in the Metz region and containing Gregory the Great's Homiliae in Evangelia; another part of the manuscript can be found in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 168 (flyleaf). In 1632, the fragment, with a beautiful initial, came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of a lectionary from the French area. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Former flyleaf of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 111, an anthology with saints' lives from the Cistercian abbey of Pontiffroy (Moselle départment). In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars and was detached from its host volume probably between 1854 and 1875.
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A single leaf with Gregory the Great's Moralia in Hiob, that, together with Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 132, ff. 1-4, served in the 11th century to complete the text of this manuscript (ff. 5-149). Palimpsest: the original manuscript from the beginning of the 9th century contained Clement of Rome, Recognitiones. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium of a manuscript probably produced in the area of Soissons, which contained a Marian miracle of Hugo Farsitus as well as an excerpt of the Vitae patrum. According to an ownership mark, the bifolium was later in the Carthusian monastery of Arvières-en-Valromey (Ain). In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium from a manuscript produced in the Abbey of Fleury and containing the texts of Clement of Rome. This fragment, along with the next (A 94.23), made up the final quire and pastedown of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 164, and in 1632 came to Bern from the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium from a manuscript of the texts of Clement of Rome produced at the abbey of Fleury; it contains parts of Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos as well as the Biblical book of Lamentations. The fragment was used as the inner pastedown of the original back cover of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 164, and an offset (of ff. 1v-2r) can be seen in the preceding classmark (A 94.22, f. 2v). In 1632, the host volume and fragments came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (=1 quire) of a manuscript of French origin; it possibly consists of parts of the third book of a (World?-) Chronicle. The text, which is primarily compiled from Livy and Orosius, has not yet been identified and concerns events in Roman history from ca. 400 to 49 BCE. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Fragment of a 14th century French Trouvère manuscript. It contains 18 jeux-partis (17 with the participation of Jehan Bretel) and a fragment of the Prise amoureuse by Jean Acart de Hesdin; all chansons except for one are attested in the parallel version. The songs have been transmitted without notation.
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Fragment of a contemporaneous French translation of the Chirurgia parva by Lanfranc of Milan. This small-format booklet is incomplete; it presents the oldest remaining witness of the work; the other four surviving manuscripts all date from the 15th century. Based on a text comparison with the Latin version, one must probably assume the loss of a quire at the front as well as at the back.
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The Latin part of this fragment (f. 1r–3r) contains a collection of excerpts from various authors regarding sins and penance, morals, etc. The French part (f. 3v–4v) contains one or two poem(s) in verse, which seem to have survived only in this fragment.
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Fragment of a small-format manuscript with sermons by Maurice de Sully. It contains sermons 27–36, however, the quires are arranged incorrectly: the text of quire 2 (f. 9–13) is followed by the text of quire 1 (f. 1–8).
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Fragment of a panegyric on Queen Blanche of Navarre (1331–1398), consisting of almost 400 verses. The author Robin Comtet - who mentions himself toward the end of the piece - is not otherwise known. The poem seems to have been preserved only in this copy and has not yet been published.
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Fragment with an excerpt from the Continuation des Chroniques abrégées by Baldwin of Avesnes (for the years 1369–1370); the text for the events of the years 1342-1383 was adopted without changes for the Chroniques de Flandres. The additions twice contain the name of Robert Migaillot, canon at Laon, who gave this manuscript as a gift to his cousin in 1515.
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Copy of a letter by Etienne du cimetière, prévôt d'Orléans, regarding Jean de Saint-Mesmin's confession to the maison de la chèvrerie, dated March 1331 (or 1337).
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Fragment (2 bifolia) of a French manuscript of Lancelot in prose. Based on the note of sale, perhaps related to the library of Jean Buridan, philosopher and professor at the University of Paris?
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This fragment contains two texts that were popular in France at the time: the French translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae by Boethius and of the confort d'ami by Guillaume de Machaut. The 8 pages are from a rich collection of fragments in the Burgerbibliothek of Bern; they were digitized as a complement to the library's magnificently decorated Machaut manuscript (Cod. 218).
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Three leaves (1 folio, 1 bifolium) from a manuscript produced in Fleury that contained, among other things, poems by Gottschalk of Orbais. Other parts of this manuscript are in the Vatican (B.A.V., Reg. lat. 1616). In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two leaves from a passionary possibly produced in Italy that contained the Passio of Pope Cornelius augmented by other pieces. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three bifolia from a manuscript produced in France containing excerpts on different theological themes. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two bifolia from a small-format manuscript made in France containing various theological excerpts related to a collection of sententiae from the school of Anselm of Laon. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three bifolia from a manuscript probably produced in Fleury. Other parts of the manuscript can be found in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 170. The fragment contains parts of the vita of saint Placidus and his disciples. In 1632, it came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (likely 1 quire) of a manuscript produced in France that contained John of Avranches' explanations of the Divinum officium and Amalarius of Metz's Ordo missae. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (1 quire) of a small book made in France. Other parts of this manuscript, written in a beautiful minuscule, can be found in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 705. Damaged on the upper part, this fragment, containing Isidorus' Synonyma, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of a manuscript probably produced in Micy with the miracles of saint Maximinus. The fragment subsequently belonged to Pierre Daniel and later came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Bifolium of a Liber poenitentialis, not further identified, probably produced in Eastern France. It contains parts of book 24, as suggested by the running number written in the upper margin. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Six bifolia (perhaps 1 quire) of a manuscript produced in France, which contained a collection of as-yet unidentified exempla. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (perhaps 1 quire) containing parts of the statutes of the Parisian confraternity of the Twelve Apostles. Due to the unusual writing, there have been some uncertainties regarding the classification and dating of the text. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bound bifolia from a medical manuscript, likely produced in Eastern France, containing excerpts from an antidotary and from Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis universalibus. The two leaves added at the end present excerpts from the Liber alter de dynamidiis, other excerpts of a theological nature, and medical recipes. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (1 quire) from a manuscript written in France with the Beniamin minor by Richard of Saint-Victor. Unfortunately, the origin cannot be determined more precisely from the partly cut owner's note on folio 1. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three bifolia from a manuscript possibly made in Eastern France, which contained Isidore's Sententiae and was extensively annotated. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia of a manuscript that belonged to the abbey of canons regular of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. The quire with the Glossae in Vetus Testamentum (Leviticus and 1 Kings) and the Quaestiones Hebraicae in librum I Regum by Hieronymus forms the beginning of Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 554. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (possibly one quire) from a manuscript produced in France. The text, conceived as a dialogue between teacher and pupil, which survives in its entirety in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 417, f. 47r-61v, contains the treatise De divisionibus temporum, based on an Irish computus. Formerly in the possession of Pierre Daniel, the fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two bifolia from a manuscript written in France, containing Sedulius' Carmen paschale. The sparsely illuminated and glossed fragment previously belonged to Pierre Daniel and came in 1632 to Bern in the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (1 quire) from a manuscript likely made in Western France that contained Augustine's De magistro. Some leaves are the palimpsest of a document copied on both sides, possibly of Spanish origin. The fragment belonged initially to Pierre Daniel, and came in 1632 to Bern in the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf from a manuscript, probably produced in the Loire area, containing Carolingian hymns. The back of the leaf is heavily abraded and contains a selection of excerpts from Horace, approximately in the order they appear in his works. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three bifolia from a manuscript produced in France, which contained the treatises De tropis loquendi by Peter the Chanter and De schematibus et tropis by Bede. On the last leaf is a collection of French medical recipes. As can be seen from a note on f. 1r, Pierre Daniel and Pierre Pithou exchanged ideas about the content of the text. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf from a manuscript made in Eastern France with the Institutiones grammaticae of Priscian. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two leaves from a manuscript probably made around Soissons, which contained the Institutiones grammaticae of Priscian. The fragments, one of which bears the owner's note of Paul Petau, were possibly formerly used as book covers. In 1632, they came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf from a manuscript probably made in Tours containing the Etymologiae of Isidore. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia from an illuminated manuscript produced in France containing the De civitate Dei of Augustine. As can be seen from the fold marks and partially present book titles, the bifolia were later used as book covers. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (probably 1 quire) from a manuscript produced in France with texts by Walter Map and Jean Lefèvre, further parts of which are in Vatican City, B.A.V., Reg. lat. 598; it shows similarities with other manuscripts of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris and connections to Saint-Vaast Abbey in Arras. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Two bifolia and one single leaf from a manuscript probably made in Northern France containing Bede's De orthographia and texts by Cassiodorus. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Three bifolia from a manuscript probably made in France. Additional parts of the manuscript are in Vatican City, B.A.V., Reg. lat. 477. The Bernese part contains Alcuin's Confessio de Trinitate, a poem by Hildebert of Lavardin, and the beginning of the Passion of the Apostle Andrew. An ex-libris with a book curse is unfortunately barely decipherable. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Single leaf of a manuscript made in France with a fragment of the Leges Langobardorum. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
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Four bifolia (likely 1 quire) from a small-format manuscript, which, as the scribal note (f. 5v-6r) of a certain Letaldus suggests, comes from Fleury or Micy. It contained, in addition to excerpts from the works of Priscian and of Seneca, the Disticha Catonis and other pieces. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern in the property of Jacques Bongars via Pierre Daniel, who copied the scribe's note in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 450.11.
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The so-called "Berner Parzival" is the last dated manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic poem about the Holy Grail, created between 1200 and 1210; moreover, this textual witness is adorned with illustrations. Presumably the Bernese merchant Jörg Friburger commissioned the manuscript in 1467 from the scribe Johann Stemhein of Konstanz, who edited and stylistically modernized the text of his model to match the tastes of a late medieval urban public. In addition, he gave directions for illustrations, which were later executed by a painter who created 28 colored pen and ink drawings. The further history of this manuscript,which today consists of 180 leaves, is unknown; it must, however, have reached the Bernese municipal library in the early years of the 19th century, where it is attested at least since 1816.
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This manuscript assembles about 700 documents from the years 814-1242, which concern the administration of the Chapter and the Cathedral of Lausanne. The compilation of the cartulary began around 1202 and was completed in 1242; 5 files, dated 1250-1294, were added later. The material structure of the manuscript is very complex because of numerous additions to the original core, which corresponds to the Livre censier du Chapitre cathédral de Lausanne of about 1202. The manuscript contains various texts: the Annals of Lausanne, a topographic cartulary, a chronological register, two chronicles, an urbarium, the Chronicle of the Bishops of Lausanne and the Cathedral's necrology. The author of this valuable collection is Conon d'Estavayer (before 1200-1243/1244), who became Dean of the Cathedral in 1202. From 1216 until 1242, he directly supervised the editing of the manuscript and the organization of the documents.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
Composite manuscript consisting of four very different parts that probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars; parts B and C are from the Collège de Navarre in Paris. All parts are at least partly illuminated. All fragments have related parts in other libraries: for part A, Paris BN lat. 7709, f. 1–4; for B, Paris BN lat. 17566, f. 1–40; for C, Paris BN lat. 17902, f. 1–85; and for D, Leiden UB, Voss. Q 2 IX (f. 60).
Online Since: 10/10/2019
Composite manuscript consisting of two different parts that probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars. Part A comes from an extensive collection of lives of the saints for the liturgy of Fleury, various of which have been preserved in the Vatican Library: Reg. lat. 274, f. 95–102; Reg. lat. 318, f. 1–79, 80–146, 147–258; Reg. lat. 585, f. 13–27; Reg. lat. 711.II, f. 11–18; 67–76. Part B contains fragments from Isidore's grammatical writings and probably was written in Eastern France.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
The only textual witness for certain letters by Salvianus of Marseille, the complement of which is preserved in Paris BN lat. 2174, f. 113–115. This non-illuminated fragment probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
Fragment of the Boethius' On Arithmetic, containing numerous schematic drawings; it probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
Two bifolia from an Isidore manuscript that was probably produced in the Loire region. The fragment contains, among others, a carefully sketched wind rose as well as astronomical texts at the end that, in the context of the Aratea, are known as the “Scholia Bernensia”. It probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the collection of Jacques Bongars.
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Fragment of a manuscript in uncial script containing medical texts; it was probably written in Spain and came to the library of Chartres Cathedral perhaps via Italy. The remaining parts are preserved in Paris BN lat. 10233. Based on an entry by the Bernese librarian Samuel Hortin, the fragment in all likelihood came to Bern in 1632 as part of the Bongarsiana collection.
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The Amtliche Berner Chronik (Official Chronicle of Bern) was commissioned by the city of Bern in 1474. About ten years later, Diebold Schilling was able to present the city council with this three-volume work, with its title pages in color, decorative initials, and more than six hundred large illustrations. The first volume contains the early history of Bern from the founding of the city until the year 1421, based on the older chronicle by Konrad Justinger, following the version by Bendicht Tschachtlan. The work remained in the possession of the Bern Chancellery for nearly three hundred years before the volumes were given to the City Library in 1762.
Online Since: 12/20/2012