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Albertus Löffler was the most productive scribe of the Dominican Monastery of Basel. The only manuscript of rhetorical content in his hand contains the so-called Summa Iovis and works by Nikolaus de Dybin. Löffler copied them during his studies in Heidelberg in 1438 and 1439. This composite manuscript became part of the chained library of the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
The account of the delegation of the Council of Basel to Greece was in large part written by the Council notary Jakob Hüglin (ca. 1400–1484). Hüglin was active at the Council as a notary (from 1432) and as a scribe (from 1435). In 1437, together with the notary Dietrich Winckelman, he accompanied the delegation to Constantinople. Part of the manuscript served as the exemplar for the manuscript Hs 4 of the Episcopal Archive of the Bishopric of Basel in Solothurn.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
This composite manuscript contains acts of the delegation of the Council of Basel to Constantinople, declarations of protest, and notarial instruments. It previously had a limp binding made from a 1436 marriage dispensation charter, which today is stored separately. The majority of the manuscript consists of a report on the mission to Greece and is partially based on Jakob Hüglin's notes conserved in the Hs 3 of the Episcopal Archive of the Bishopric of Basel in Solothurn. Jakob Hüglin (ca. 1400–1484) was active at the Council of Basel as notary from 1432, and as scribe from 1435. In 1437, together with the notary Dietrich Winckelman, he accompanied the delegation to Constantinople. The trip lasted a year, until February 1438. The composite manuscript consists of 17 fascicules, which are sewn together and were copied by different scribes.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
Cod. Sang. 1396 is one of the Abbey Library of St. Gall's eight fragment volumes (that is, volumes that contain exclusively fragments). Between 1774 and 1785, the St. Gall monks Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756–1823) and Ildefons von Arx (1755–1833) detached numerous fragments from bindings in which they had served for centuries as pastedowns, flyleaves, spine linings, and quire guards. Several fragments, including many in Cod. Sang. 1396, were also used as limp bindings for manuscripts or prints. At an advanced age, Ildefons von Arx had the fragments bound into eight thematically-organized volumes and dedicated these in 1822 to his friend Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger. From 2012 to 2021 the extensive fragment volume Cod. Sang. 1396 was disbound for conservation reasons. The fragments were rebound (in the same order, except for a few bifolia) in 32 folders (“Ganzpapierbroschuren”). The new, authoritative pagination begins with 1 in each folder and includes only the fragments (without the empty paper pages). Citation form (example): St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1396.1, pp. 1-2 (= Cod. Sang. 1396, Folder 1, Pages 1-2). Folders 10-14 and 18-32 contain fragments of late-medieval charters, whose texts are incomplete to various degrees. The contents of the charters are indicated in the registers of Karl Wegelin (1803–1856), who examined most charters during his period as Abbey Archivist of St. Gall (1834–1856). The register's content is reproduced with the orthography and wordflow unchanged, and only exceptionally in abbreviated or modified form. In contrast to Karl Wegelin, who only reports the year, the date is presented, when possible, on the basis of the charter text. The abbreviation P.L. (=Philipp Lenz) indicates supplemental free-standing observations on the content. The descriptions do not mention the old numeration scheme in blank ink, which Karl Wegelin probably introduced. If a charter fragment has no explicit dating, the script is described and dated. Measurements give height x width at the maximal point of the documents, according to the reading direction, and thus independent of the direction the charters were bound. The eleventh folder contains fragments of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Latin documents, mainly concerning ecclesiastical matters and originating from the Diocese of Constance.
Online Since: 08/21/2025