The two-part processional brings together chants, texts, and instructions for monastic processions over the year. The first, richly illuminated, part, with scenes from the life of Christ was produced in the southern Lake Constance area in the late fifteenth century, probably in the circle of the Murer family of painters in Constance. The second part was produced in 1606 in the Convent of Dominican Nuns of St. Katharinental (TG), and contains German-Latin procession orders, obituaries, and funerary rites, which are adapted to the local practice of the convent. (glo)

This richly decorated Antiphonary contains chants, antiphons, and hymns for the liturgical year from Easter to Advent, as well as for numerous feast-days of saints. The manuscript, written by multiple hands, was produced in 1493 for the charterhouse near Freiburg im Breisgau and later arrived in the Ittingen charterhouse. In addition to artistic pen-flourished initials, it contains four historiated initals with narrative representations of Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Corpus Christi, as well as a lot of additional liturgical material, including cantica, obituaries, and fragments of a missal. (glo)

This Gradual, made in the fourteenth century, contains chants for the liturgical year, the proper of the saints, requiem, kyriale, as well as an extensive collection of sequences. Three fourteenth-century hands produced the Gothic minuscule as well as German neumes on brown, four-line staves. Additions and corrections are made by multiple hands from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Notably, there are initials with grotesque faces as well as many liturgical instructions. The volume was in the Augustinian Canonry of Kreuzlingen from the eighteenth century at the latest, and has Hebrew- and Latin-script binding fragments. (glo)

This Rituale from the Diocese of Constance was produced after 1479 and contains the Benediction of Water and Salt as well as an extensive ordo concerning visitations of the sick and their unction. The manuscript, carefully presented with Textualis formata, two-color Lombards, and red liturgical instructions was written in a fifteenth-century hand. Fragments of letters in the binding as well as the names of saints provide indication of the dating (after 1479) and the area of production (Lake Constance Area). (glo)

Heinrich Tierli wrote this medicinal compilation in 1407 in the Diocese of Constance, and it contains the practical part of the Collectorium totius fere medicinae of Nicolaus Bertrucius together with an alphabetically ordered antidotarium. The manuscript, written in a Gothic book cursive, was actively used and annotated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previous owners were, among others, Petrus Hemmerli and Leonhard Hemerly from Constance. (glo)

This large-format Bible manuscript was produced in the fourteenth century in the Upper Rhine area and contains the totality of the Old and New Testaments, with Jerome's prologues. The text is carefully copied in textualis and is richly decorated with pen-flourished initials, colorful decorative motifs, medallions, and marginal drawings of animals and humans. Particularly noteworthy are the figurative initials, grotesque marginal drawings, as well as numerous glosses and corrections from the fourteenth and fifteenth century. (glo)

This richly illustrated German-language history Bible (“Historienbibel”) was created around 1450/1455 in the workshop of Diebold Lauber in Hagenau (Alsace). The vernacular text is written by a single hand in Bastarda and is accompanied by 79 colored pen-and-ink drawings, which often depict biblical and apocryphal scenes in a narrative fashion. The presentation of the text and images follows a uniform design. Around 1700, the manuscript was in the possession of the chapter of Augustinian canons of Kreuzlingen. (glo)

This manuscript, produced in Southwestern Germany ca. 1460 transmits Ulrich Boner's collection of fables, Der Edelstein, in bastarda produced by a single hand. The spaces for the initials and the illustrations were left blank, thus the text was left undecorated. A Marian hymn and a likely contemporary ownership note indicate that the manuscript was used in a religious milieu. Around 1700 the manuscript was in the possession of the Augustinian Canonry of Kreuzlingen. (glo)

This abundantly illuminated breviary for the use of the diocese of Besançon was probably written in the first half of the fourteenth century. It is decorated with red and blue rubrics, numerous initials on a gold background, drolleries on the lower margin as well as calendar drawings with zodiacal signs and the peasants' monthly labors. Particularly noteworthy are three full-page illuminations: Christopher (p. 176), the Adoration of the Magi (p. 178), and the Crucifixion (p. 179). The naming of regional saints suggests a Besançon origin. It was later in the possession of the Solothurn patrician family Wallier, and possibly arrived in Fischingen by way of the Abbots Augustine Bloch or Franz Fröhlicher. (glo)

This extensively illuminated Book of Hours from the Diocese of Utrecht was produced shortly after 1430. The book decoration, with gold initials, rinceaux, historiated initials (including Virgin and Child, angels playing music) and miniatures in the style of the Masters of the Zweder van Culemborg (the Bressanone group), shows that the manuscript is an example of Utrecht book arts. The texts – including the Office of the Virgin, penitential psalms, Office of the Dead, prayers, and lives of the saints – are predominantly intended for the use of a woman. In the seventeenth century, the manuscript belonged to W. Franciscus à Greiffenberg. (glo)

This illuminated Book of Hours from northeastern France, probably the bishopric of Amiens, was produced in the first half of the fifteenth century. The manuscript contains a French calendar with saints typical for the region, the Office of the Virgin, other offices, prayers, penitential psalms, litanies, and the Office of the Dead. The rich book decoration includes gold-embellished champie initials, red-blue line fillers and vine-and-ivy-leaf margins. The manuscript was originally decorated with miniatures, which have since been excised. (glo)

This large-format breviary from the diocese of Constance contains liturgical texts from the end of the eleventh to the fifteenth century. The older part, in Carolingian minuscule with early-romanesque initials and neumes over the chants was probably produced in a Constance scriptorium. In the fifteenth century, the manuscript was expanded with a calendar, new entries in the sanctoral and additional hymns, adding several quires and requiring the volume to be rebound. Among the manuscript's particularities include an Easter Play (ca. 1100), neumes in modal notation, and historical additions concerning the destruction of the monastery of Rorschach (1489/90). Numerous liturgical additions and ownership marks attest to the manuscript's use in the church of Güttingen, to which the breviary came in the fifteenth century through the family Tettikofer. The manuscript was in Kreuzlingen ca. 1700 at the latest, and since 1858 has been in the Cantonal Library of Thurgau. (glo)

This compact late-medieval manuscript has an incomplete copy of the prayers for the Hours of the Virgin, part on parchment, part on paper. By the script and watermarks, it can be dated to ca. 1500, probably from the diocese of Constance, as indicated by the regional saints named in the Litany (Conrad, Gall, Othmar, Magnus). The original quire structure has been heavily altered; several leaves are missing, were moved, or rebound. It contains the office of the Virgin for the week and for High Holy Days, penitential psalms, a litany, many prayers, as well as the Psalterium feriatum and private prayers for the Mass. The manuscript is richly rubricated and written in a typical gothic book cursive. (glo)

This German-language devotional manuscript from Thurgau was written on paper and can be dated to the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains the Little Office of the Virgin, the liturgical offices for the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, and Divine Mercy, as well as penitential psalms, a litany, the Office of the Dead, and a number of Marian prayers, hymns, and sequences. Numerous rubrics, red Lombards, and references in the text. The binding's pastedowns from a document pertaining to a trial in Constance indicate, together with the regional saints in the Litany, that it was produced in the region of Thurgau. A possessor's mark from the late sixteenth century names a certain Lady “Bese” as owner. (glo)

Peter Bonn von Worms, parish priest of Rast, produced this astronomical-computistic Astronomisch-komputistische composite manuscript between ca. 1467 and March 1486. It contains instructions for calculating calender dates, movable feasts, Sun and Moon cycles, astrological tables, blood-letting treatises, as well as a Jewish computus. It contains numerous schematic diagrams (some produced with a compass), computistic tables and calender annotations, sometimes highlighted in red. The manuscript offers glimpses into medical-astrological popular practices and contains Bonn's autograph account of the solar eclipse of 16 March 1485. (glo)

A large-format parchment antiphonary from the fifteenth century, probably from the monastery of Fischingen, featuring five-line staves with Hufnagel notation. It contains the Proprium de tempore from Christmas to Pentecost, the Proprium de sanctis as well as several seventeenth-century additions, including a responsory for Saint Scholastica (f. 203r) and an antiphon for Saint Idda von Toggenburg (f. 206r). Some initials with ornamental or figurative inner fields, a few of them with faces or profiles. This musical manuscript contains extensive signs of use and was later supplemented with new gatherings and ownership marks. The pastedowns are fragments of a Liber Glossarum in Carolingian Minuscule. (glo)

This parchment manuscript from the thirteenth century probably comes from the Cistercial Abbey of Salem and contains the foundational texts of the Cistercian order: the Exordium parvum, the Charta caritatis, and the Libellus definitionum with the determinations of the General Chapters from 1257 to 1260. The decoration includes detailed red-blue pen-flourished initials and decorated borders, and features additions through the late thirteenth century. An ownership note from Salem appears on the front pastedown. (glo)

This single-column manuscript, created in the second half of the 15th century, was very carefully written by a scribe in a humanistic minuscule. The work contains two texts by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), Cribratio Alcorani (ff. 1r-70r) and Contra Bohemos (ff. 70v-90r). With Cribratio Alcorani he attempted a precise philological and historical investigation of the Koran, and in Contra Bohemos he dealt with Hussitism. The title page (f. 1r) is decorated with bianchi girari (white vine scrolls). Two medallions with coats of arms are integrated in the border. The coats of arms show a white lion on a blue background and are crowned with the papal insignia. The coat of arms can be attributed to Pope Paul II. (Pietro Barbo, 1464-1471), which shows that the manuscript was made by order of the pope or at least during his papacy. Initials at the beginning of each chapter are golden with a background in blue and green. Individual initials are emphasized more strongly and one is decorated with white vine scroll, corresponding to the title page. The binding of the manuscript, richly decorated with plant ornaments, medallions and depictions of saints, dates from the 16th century. The central medallion on the front shows Mary with the infant Jesus. (glo)

The prayer book was written in 1475 (f. 217v). The place of origin is unknown. The text begins with the incipit Diss büchlin ist von anis und zwantzig festen und von sextechen hochziten die durch das gantz jahr begangen werdent [...] (f. 1r). The initials and the incipit are highlighted in red. Otherwise, the text appears unadorned and was written in brown ink by one main hand in one column. Bound into the center of many quires are reinforcing strips from a 14th century missal (written in textualis). The leather binding, which was created at the same time as the manuscript, is decorated with diagonally arranged decorative lines and ornamental stamps. (glo)

This single-column manuscript was written in a meticulous 14th century hand. The volume contains Omelie (homilies, ff. 1r-103r), Dialogi (dialogues, ff. 103v-170r) and the Liber pastoralis (ff. 172r-219v) by Pope Gregory I (542-604). The headings are written in red, and the manuscript contains red decorated initials on f. 103v and 172r. Furthermore, the main text of the manuscript is supplemented with various annotations by a somewhat later hand. The manuscript can be dated by means of various entries on f. 103r The main hand wrote Expliciunt omelie sancti Gregorij pape. Anno Nonagesimo. Two other hands noted domini 130° above the main text and 1390 next to it. On f. 219v the main hand also wrote Explicit Pastorale beati Gregorij pape Etc. Anno Millesimo ccc°. Nonagesimo primo. Finitus est liber iste in die s. Benedicti. The same page has a first ownership note Iste liber est domus throni sancte trinitatis in pletriach, which refers to the Carthusian monastery Pletriach in Slovenia. This volume came to the Thurgau Cantonal Library via the Ittingen Charterhouse (18th century ownership note on f. 1r). The white plate binding with two clasps dates from 1553 (dating can be found in the motif of Esaia). Just like manuscript Y 39, this binding also has plant ornaments and images of saints. (glo)

This 1394 composite manuscript contains an excerpt of the Super libros sapientie (ff. 1r-192r) by Robert Holcot (ca. 1290-1349). Folio 1r has a note of ownership Jste liber est h. wahter prespiteri et detur filijs fratris mei (et johanni . heinrici by another hand) in remedium anime mee, which names Heinrich Wachter (priest) as the owner. This single-column manuscript was written in a cursive script by two different hands. Folios 1r-86v can unequivocally be attributed to Heinrich Wachter. Folios 87r-192r were written by an unknown second hand. The rest of the volume can also be ascribed, albeit not entirely unambiguously, to the two hands mentioned above. The pastedowns, the flyleaves and the reinforcing strips are from a register of names, perhaps from a chancellery. The wood-leather binding is contemporary. (glo)

The "Schwesternbuch" (sister-book) of St. Katharinental was written in Katharinental near Diessenhofen in the first third of the 15th century. It belongs to the genre of monastic vitae literature and contains the life stories and the experiences of grace of 58 residents of the convent. The cover was inscribed by Antonia Bögin or Botzin (archivist, † 1763) from Kaufbeuren as follows: Lebensbeschreibung viler in allhiessigem gottshauss heylig-mässig gelebter closter-jungfrawen. The table of contents on the front pastedown, the chapter headings with the names of the St. Katharinental nuns mentioned in the book, and an enumeration of the nuns' vitae in the margins of the sheets are in a later hand. The two-column manuscript was written by two different hands. The main hand (pp. 1a-144a) wrote the lives of the nuns and a prayer. Another prayer (pp. 144b-154a) was written by the second hand. The parchment binding with fastening straps dates from the 18th century. The front flyleaf also contains a note of ownership: diss buoch ist schwester Margreten von Ulm († 1583) closterfrow in Sankt Kattrinen thal by Diessenhofen. For the year 1720, Sister Antonia is presumably registered on p. 104 as the new owner of the sister book. (glo)

This composite manuscript was produced between 1460 and 1470 in the region of Lake Constance. Perhaps it was held for some time by the Ittingen Charterhouse near Frauenfeld. It contains late medieval sacred and profane texts, which were published for the first time in part based on this manuscript, such as Die fünf Herzeleid Mariä, the Frauenfelder Passionsgedicht and a prose recension of Wolfram's Willehalm, as well as an excerpt from the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit by Henry Suso. (lug)

In contrast to other chronicles by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen), this entirely chronicle of Hauterive Abbey (FR) is not by Murer's hand, but was probably only commissioned by the monk from Ittingen to be created at Hauterive Abbey. Regarding the content, the manuscript consists of two parts: the history of the monastery and a list of ecclesial events. The former begins with Abbot Girard (1138-1157) and ends with Abbot Petrus (end of the 16th century); the latter pertains to the years between 1500 and 1510. (sol)

Chronicle of the Dominican Monastery of Basel and of the Convent of Maria Magdalena OP in Basel by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). The manuscript is divided into the chronicle of the Dominican Monastery and the chronicle of the Convent in Basel. In the first part, Murer describes the building of the Dominican Monastery in 1233 and the development of the diocese of Basel from the 13th to the 15th century. In the second part, Murer turns to the establishment of the convent in the 11th century and its reconstruction in 1253, as well as other ecclesial events until 1465. (sol)

Chronicle of the diocese of Chur by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). Murer describes the establishment of the diocese of Chur and names Asinio (451) as its first bishop, followed by 75 more bishops until John IV (1418-1440). Four modern copies of deeds of donation from Emperor Otto I and King Louis the German, as well as annalistic notes, are appended to the chronicle. (sol)

Chronicle of Einsiedeln Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). The description of the abbots from Eberhard (934-958) to Plazidus (1629-1670) is preceded by a pen and ink drawing of the patron saints of the church and a fold-out map of the monastery complex. The chronicle contains copies, written by Murer, of deeds of donation and confirmation that relate to Einsiedeln Abbey. (sol)

Chronicle of the Priory of Embrach by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). In this chronicle, which is incomplete with respect to decoration as well as content, Murer describes a few individual abbots and important events in the history of the monastery. (sol)

Chronicle of Engelberg Abbey and of the Convent of St. Andreas by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). The chronicle begins with a description of the geographic location and the foundation of the monastery (1119). This is followed by the history of Engelberg Abbey from Abbot Adelhelm (1124/26-1131) until Abbot Plazidus Knüttel (1630-1658). In a shorter second part, Murer describes the foundation (1199) and history of the Convent of St. Andreas from 1254-1455. (sol)

Chronicle of Fischingen Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk at the Carthusian monastery of Ittingen from 1614), which is probably based on the Chronicle of Jakob Bucher, also a monk at the Ittingen monastary, whose Chronicle of the abbey of Fischingen was completed between September 15, 1627 and September 14, 1628. (lug)

The Chronicle of St. Gall abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian Cloister of Ittingen from 1614). According to his own account, Murer based his work on the writings of St. Gall religious community member, legal expert and abbey librarian Jodocus Metzler (1574-1639), among others. The chronicle extends from the founding of the abbey by St. Gallus until the year 1630. (lug)

Chronicle of St. John abbey in the Thurtal by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen from 1614). Murer bases his work on information of his own as well as on the writings of St. Gall community member, legal expert and abbey librarian Jodocus Metzler, among others. (lug)

Chronicle of the cloisters of St. Katharinental, Töss and Berenberg as set down by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk in the Carthusian monastary of Ittingen from 1614). Embedded within this volume is the "St.Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch" (St. Katharinental Book of Sisters), in a hand from the end of the 17th century, which presents a version of the famous Book of Sisters from the 15th century that is extremely faithful to the original. An equally faithful version of the "Tösser Schwesternbuch" (Töss Book of Sisters by Elisabeth Stagel is rendered in the same hand. The twelve lives from the "St.Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch" found in the above mentioned chronicles are derived from those of Heinrich Murer, as demonstrated by a comparison with the "Helvetia Sancta" by Heinrich Murer. (lug)

Chronicle of the Bishopric of Constance by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, member of the Carthusian monastery at Ittingen from 1614). Heinrich Murer bases his chronicle upon earlier works, including the Chronicon of Hermannus Contractus (1013-1054), which was continued by his pupil Berthold von Reichenau into the year 1080, the Chronik der Alten Eidgenossenschaft (Chronicle of the Old Confederacy) by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1577/78), published in 1547/48; the Chronologia monasteriorum Germaniae praecipuorum by Caspar Bruschius (1518-1557): the Chronik von dem Erzstifte Mainz und dessen Suffraganbistümern (Chronicle of the Archdiocesan Abbey of Mainz and its Suffragan Bishoprics) by Wilhelm Werner, Graf von Zimmern (1485-1575); the historical works of Christoph Hartmann (1568-1637) of Frauenfeld, who was librarian of the Einsiedeln abbey in his later years and who wrote the Annales Heremi Deiparae Matris in Helvetia together with Franz Guillimann. Murer's chronicle extends from the origins of what would later be the Diocese of Constance in Windisch in the year 411 under Bishop Paternus to the year 1629 under Bishop Johannes VII. (lug)

Chronicle of Konstanz Cathedral, of the collegiate churches of the diocese, of the city of Kon-stanz and of Reichenau by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Car-thusian Monastery of Ittingen). While in Y 106 Murer only addressed the history of the diocese of Konstanz, in this manuscript he goes into more detail about Konstanz and its surroundings. His sources were writings by other clerics, such as the Chronicle of Konstanz by Jakob Rassler (1568-1617). (sol)

Chronicle of Kreuzlingen Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk in the Carthusian monastery of Ittingen from 1614). Murer based his historical account of the abbey of Kreuzlingen on older documents as well as on a list of abbots extending to 1626. (lug)

The Chronicle of Eschenbach cloister by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen) has two vedute of the monastery from 1625 and 1629, both probable from Heinrich Murer. (lug)

Chronicle of the Paradies Cloister by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen beginning in 1614). For this work Murer used the Swiss Chronicle of Johann Stumpf and probably the "Swabian Chronicle" by Thomas Lirer, among others. It contains numerous copies of documents regarding the holdings of the Paradies Cloister. (lug)

A list of Swiss saints in chronological order, from St. Beatus to Nicolaus Rusca and the Capuchin Fidelis. Decorated with pen and ink drawings with blue wash by the painter Hans Asper of Constance. Murer's model for the Helvetia Sancta most likely was the Bavaria Sancta by Matthäus Rader, published in Munich in 1615. (lug)

Chronicle of the Cloister of Reichenau by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, a monk at the Carthusian monastery ofIttingen beginning in 1614), based on the Chronicle of Gallus Oeheim, Priest and Chaplain of the Cloister of Reichenau († 1511). (lug)

Three chronicles of the Abbey of Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen in three different hands, among which the first is the hand of Heinric Murer (1588-1638, a member of the Carthusian community at Ittingen beginning in 1614). (lug)

Chronicle of Selnau Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). This incomplete manuscript would have treated the Cistercian monasteries of Switzerland in a first part and, in a second more detailed part, the convent of nuns at Selnau. The manuscript remained fragmentary. (sol)

Chronicle of the Cloister of Wettingen by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, member of the Carthusian convent at Ittingen beginning 1614). (lug)

Chronicle of the Grossmünster of Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). In this chronicle, Heinrich Murer first gives a detailed history of the city of Zurich and of the Grossmünster, before he begins a list and description of the individual provosts. (sol)

Chronicle of the Fraumünster, the Peterskirche, and the Wasserkirche in Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638). Murer cites the Tigurinerchronik of Heinrich Bullinger as the source of his Chronicle of the Peterskirche and both the Tigurinerchronik and the Schweizer Chronik of Johannes Stumpf as sources for the Chronicle of the Chapel “auf dem Hof”. (lug)

Chronicle of the smaller abbeys and foundations of Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian Monastery of Ittingen). This volume is a collection of short, incomplete descriptions giving the history of abbeys and foundations of Zurich, introduced by title pages of pen and ink drawings with blue wash. The following institutions are de-scribed: the Augustinian monastery in the mindere Stadt (smaller city) of Zurich, the Franciscan monastery of the grosse Stadt (larger city) of Zurich, the Dominican monastery, the community of Beguines of St. Verena, and the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene in Oetenbach. (sol)

This obsequiale (processional) of Otto IV von Sonnenberg, Bishop of Constance (1481-1491), was written during his lifetime in the Constance area; it contains instructions for the organisation of liturgical ceremonies (for example, administering the sacraments, ecclesiastic blessings, and exorcisms). (sol)

This composite manuscript of homiletic content was written in Überlingen in 1495. Not only the place of origin of the manuscript, opido ùberlingen, but also the name of its author – scribebat Stephanus hamgarter nomen –, Stephanus Hamgarter von Stein (former parish assistant in Seefelden near Überlingen), can be gathered from the explicit (f. 38vb). The composite manuscript contains the Sermones dominicales de tempore (ff. 1ra-38vb) by Peregrinus de Oppeln (ca. 1260-1335), a Sermo de passione domini (ff. 59ra-66va), and further sermons (ff. 66va-82v). The volume was restored by “Hans Heiland und Sohn” in 1965, who also provided it with a new green leather binding. (glo)

From the colophon (Finitus est liber Iste feria secunda Post festum Concepcionis virginis Marie. Anno domini 1498. Per fratrem iohannem Coci Conuentualem huius monastery. Iiij ydus decembris Laus deo, f. 186r), it can be inferred that this Psalter was written by Johannes Koch (mentioned in the Fischinger necrology and documented between 1498 and 1514, parish priest in Bichelsee (TG) from 1483 on) and that it was finished in 1498. It is striking that the writing on ff. 98r-110r was traced with black ink by a later hand. The paper pages with a hymn (ff. 187r-188v) were probably added later. The pages of musical notes have 5 red lines with German plainsong notation (“Hufnagelnotation"). The manuscript also has a simple red title (f. 1r): Incipit psalterium in nomine domini, immediately followed by a listing of the workdays. Headings are also kept in red. The front and back covers show the imprint of the former pastedowns. The contemporary yellow leather binding with Renaissance press patterns from the 15th and 16th century has two clasps as well as corner fittings. In addition, the front cover bears an 18th century paper label that unmistakably refers to the Benedictine Fischingen Abbey with the shelfmark C:XV. S:13. Notat: 10. (glo)

This work, written in German, contains the life of Thomas Aquinas written by William of Tocco (1240-1323). On f. 106v, there is also a note on the writer and on the possible patroness of the work: Dis buoch hat ze tùtsche bracht gemachet vnd geschriben pfaff Eberhard von Rapreswil kilcherr zu Jonen (addition anno 1418 by a 16th or 17th century hand). Dem sol Got vnsri frow sant Thoman der heilig lerer vnd die erwirdig frow die Stoeklerin ze Toess wol lonen. According to this entry, the 15th century hand goes back to Eberhard von Rapperswil, who was pastor in Jona in the canton of St. Gallen. The woman who commissioned the work is considered to be the nun Stöklerin from Töss (probably Elsbeth Stükler). This makes the work one of the few German translations of the life of Thomas Aquinas. Individual initials are not only highlighted in red, but are also decorated. The manuscript has a raspberry-red leather binding with clasps, which was restored in the 20th century. The detached pastedowns in the front and back are from a 13th century manuscript with neumes (probably a Kyriale). The manuscript contains two ownership notes: Dijs buoch ist erhart blarer von Wartensee zuo Kemten, guothsher zuo kemtem vnd zuo Werdeg (f. 106v) and Monasterij apud D.[ivam] Yddam in Visch.[ingen] (f. 1r). Accordingly, the manuscript belonged to Prince Abbot Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee in Kempten, who is documented to have been active from 1587 to 1594; subsequently the manuscript became the property of Fischingen Abbey. (glo)

This single-column paper manuscript is dated December 20, 1453 (f. 163r). The Liber officiorum was written by a main hand, which also added the red marginalia throughout the manuscript. A second hand is responsible for the interlinear glosses, other marginalia and red manicules. Chapter headings and lombards were kept in red throughout. The three parts of the work are each introduced by an initial containing a figure (f. 1r, 69r, 112v). Fol. 1r was additionally decorated with a frame of plant ornaments. The ex-libris on the front pastedown names Georg Alfred Kappeler (1839-1916, theologian and pastor) from Frauenfeld as the owner of the paper manuscript. The Kappeler family is proven to have lived in Frauenfeld since 1443. Due to their influential activities as governors, teachers and pastors, in the 19th century the Kappeler family was part of the educated middle class, to which Georg Alfred Kappeler also belonged. His legacy lives on today through several valuable manuscripts and prints still held by the Cantonal Library of Thurgau. (glo)

This late 15th century manuscript is one of the earliest works in the holdings of the Carthusian Library in Ittingen. Jacobus Saurer von Blaubeuren (died 1514) is considered the scribe of the manuscript (with the exception of ff. 179r-180v): […] Jacobum Sënger alias Säurer propria ipsius manu conscriptus. The two-column paper manuscript contains the Tractatus super epistolas dominicales by the French scholastic Johannes Algrinus de Abbatisvilla as well as his entries on the Gospels for Pentecost. The text is written very evenly in a careful “Kurrent”. The brown wood-leather binding with clasps is contemporary and features decorative lines and ornamental stamps (stars and leaf ornaments). (glo)

This breviary, created in the second half of the 15th century, contains texts for the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours. The owner of the manuscript is Niklaus Hass (Primissarius in Allenbach): Iste liber pertinent Nicolao Hass primissario in Allenspach (f. 1r). This paper manuscript probably came to Kreuzlingen because of the good relations of Kreuzlingen Abbey to chapter of Constance. The two-column breviary was written by six different hands, of which that of Nikolaus Marschalk (died 1448, custos and canon of the monastery of St. Johann in Constance, see entry on f. 1r) can be named as the main hand (ff. 33ra-287vb, 290ra-303ra, 310ra-340rb and 342r). A second hand is responsible for the calendar and the beginning of the breviary (ff. 1r-8r, 12r-28vb and 309r-309v). Further entries are by four additional hands (third hand: ff. 28vb-32ra, fourth hand: ff. 288r-289v, fifth hand: ff. 303ra-304rb, sixth hand: ff. 305ra-308rb). The manuscript was written in a “Kurrent”. The contemporary wood-leather binding with a clasp and brass bosses is striking. The Kreuzlingen coat of arms was only subsequently engraved on the front as supralibros. (glo)