Sub-project: Call for Collaboration 2015
June 2015 - March 2017
Status: Completed
Financed by: swissuniversities
Description: In the beginning of 2015, e-codices published its third “Call for Collaboration”. This call, published jointly by e-codices and our partner libraries, again attracted a great deal of international interest. After the great response to the first call in June 2009 with 97 applications from 33 scholars, and the overwhelming success of the second call in 2013 with 137 applications from 55 scholars, we have this time received 91 applications from 36 scholars. The scholars again come from a variety of countries: Germany (9), Switzerland (7), United Kingdom (6), the USA (5), Italy (4), France (2), Sweden (1), Armenia (1) and Hungary (1); almost all disciplines of medieval studies are represented. Proposals were for manuscripts from 18 libraries, an especially large number from the Burgerbibliothek Bern (23), the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (12), the Universitätsbibliothek Basel (8), but also from three new collections that have not yet been represented on e-codices. Also suggested were six manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall, where more than half of the collection of medieval manuscripts has already been made digitally accessible. Such continuing demand clearly shows that, despite the great number of manuscripts that have already been digitized, the scholarly interest has by far not been satisfied. By March 2017, 43 manuscripts from 13 different collections have been published.
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German Psalter. The psalms are preceded by rubrics that indicate the occasion when the psalm should be recited. The manuscript also contains several canticles, the Te deum and the Litanies of the Saints. The names in the litanies indicate a Benedictine origin. The manuscript was written in 1421 by Othmar Ortwin. In 1839 it was purchased by the Einsiedeln monk and librarian P. Gallus Morell from the Cistercian Wurmsbach Abbey on Lake Zürich.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
Thin evangelistary, consisting of only 32 parchment leaves containing 27 pericopes. The very carefully produced codex, which has only a leather binding, is decorated with artistic initials in red and black ink. Although it is not dated, based on the script and decoration the codex can be assigned to the abbots Frowin (1143-1178) and Berchtold (1178-1197).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
Engelberg 52 is a late eleventh-century handbook of canon law from the circle of Bernold of Constance († 1100), an ardent champion of Pope Gregory VII. It comprises various canonistic compilations: the 'Collection in Seventy-Four Titles' (Collectio 74 titulorum with the so-called 'Swabian Appendix' (Appendix svevica; two short collections 'On Churches' (De ecclesiis) and 'On Illicit Unions' (De illicitis coniunctionibus); the Pseudo-Gelasian decretal 'On Books to be Received and not to be Received' (De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis); the 'Canons of the Four Principal Councils' prefaced by 'Adnotation I' (Adnotatio I; and the Epitome Hadriani prefaced by 'Adnotation II' (Adnotatio II). All of these items can also be found in two closely related manuscripts (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 676, and Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, HB.VI.107); but several appear here in shorter, possibly less developed forms. Prefixed to the whole is a catalogue of popes extending from Peter I to Leo IX with the addition of Victor II. Though it acknowledges Henry III’s role in the appointment of four popes (from Clement II to Victor II), it was possibly the source of the papal catalogue that Bernold attached to his Chronicle (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 432, fols. 10r–12r).
Online Since: 03/17/2016
At the behest of Jeanne de Laval, the wife of King René of Anjou, in 1465 a cleric from Angers produced a prose adaptation of the first version of Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de vie humaine. His anonymous work respects the original text and its division into four books. The completely and richly illuminated manuscript is dated to the third quarter of the 15th century.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
At the behest of Jeanne de Laval, wife of King René I. of Anjou, a cleric from Angers completed a prose adaptation of the first version of Pèlerinage de vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville in 1465. His anonymous work respects the original text and its division into four books. It is followed by the Danse aux aveugles (before 1465) by Pierre Michault. The two texts were richly illuminated by the Maître d’Antoine Rolin, however the decoration was never entirely completed.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
Philibert de Viry’s manuscript is one of the rare Books of Hours for use in the Diocese of Geneva to have survived until today. Illuminated in Lyon by the Maître de l’Entrée de François I, it contains miniatures directly inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s (1511) woodcuts Petite Passion. This is an early witness of the reception of this series of images in France and an example of the often unsuspected influence of engraving on book decoration.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
This manuscript was probably written in the 15th century in the Waldensian Valleys of Piedmont (Italy). As also with a large part of the remaining Waldensian manuscripts, now dispersed across various European libraries, this is a collection of various treatises, sermons and upraising or doctrinaire texts. This manuscript probably reached Geneva around 1661, where it was brought, together with other manuscripts, by the Waldensian pastor Jean Léger. Classified as a Spanish manuscript by Jean Senebier in 1779, it was not recognized as Waldensian until the middle of the 19th century.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
This manuscript was probably written in the 16th century in the Waldensian Valleys of Piedmont (Italy). As with a large part of the remaining Waldensian manuscripts, now dispersed across various European libraries, this is a collection of various treatises, sermons and upraising or doctrinaire texts, partly in Latin and partly in the vernacular. This manuscript probably reached Geneva around 1662, where it was brought, together with other manuscripts, by the Waldensian pastor Jean Léger. Initially classified as a Latin manuscript, it was not recognized as part of the Waldensian codices until 1832.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
Along with Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Pal. lat. 921, this fragment from the Fulda Abbey Scriptorium constitutes one of two documented manuscripts of the Getica by Jordanes, written in a (continental) Anglo-Saxon minuscule; it is not, however, a part of the last leaf of Pal. lat. 921, which has been missing since the beginning of the 19th century. Along with Palermo, Archivio di Stato "Codice Basile" and Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana Ottob. lat. 1346, and together with Pal. lat. 920, this remnant of a leaf is among the oldest text witnesses of the Getica. It could be a part of a manuscript by Jordanes that had been attested in Fulda until the middle of the 16th century.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
This work of Dominican provenance contains psalms and hymns. The incipits are given in Latin, followed by the complete German translation. The first scribe gives the date of March 26, 1480. The main scribe is called Wendelin Fräger.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
Incomplete manuscript, written by several hands in Carolingian minuscule. It contains, among others, Books 2 and 3 of the Prognosticum futuri seculi (1r-25v) by Julian of Toledo (642-690), the Collectio Capitularium – documents of civil and ecclesiastical law - by Ansegisus of Fontenelle (32r-86v), the Capitularia Hludovici (86v-91r) and above all the Life of Louis the Pious by Theganus (91r-97v). Two contemporaneous interlinear glosses on p. 96v, corresponding to the account of the baptism of Harald of Denmark (Heriold, Harald Klak Halfdansson) and the bestowal of Frisia as fief to him in the year 826, suggest the manuscript’s northern origin.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
This manuscript, which is missing the first two leaves, contains a colophon on the verso side of the last leaf (299v). The 13th century colophon informs us that this three-volume Valère Bible was a gift from Willencus of Venthône, dean of the lower church of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sion (Glarier), to the community of canons of Sion around 1195, on the occasion of the feast of the Epiphany. This work can be associated with certain Carthusian bibles, especially with a bible in four volumes that belonged to a daughter of the Grande Chartreuse (Grenoble, B.M., Mss 14, 13, 25, 15 rés. (19-21 and 25)). The order of the Old Testament Books in the Valère Bible does indeed show agreement on all points with that in the “Bible in four volumes.” Furthermore, the initial in the Book of Genesis from the Sion bible is practically identical with the “I” of Genesis from the Carthusian bible.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
This composite manuscript contains legal texts, mainly from the period before Accursius (first half of the 13th century): the Dissensiones and the Insolubilia by Hugolinus de Presbyteris; the Quaestiones by Pillius de Medicina, by Azo, by Roffredus Beneventanus and others of uncertain attribution; the Libellus de iure civili, the Tractatus de bonorum possessione and the rare Tractatus de pugna by Roffredus Beneventanus; the Tractatus de reprobatione instrumentorum and the Summa arboris actionum by Pontius de Ilerda; several lecturae about titles and fragments of the Digestum Novum; the Brocarda by Azo; the Summula de testibus by Albericus de Porta Ravennate; an anonymous Tractatus de testibus; the Libellus disputatorius by Pillius de Medicina; fragments of the Notabilia about the Decretum by Gratian and about the Corpus iuris civilis; the ordo iudiciorum ‘Olim’; a part of the Catalogus praescriptionum, for a certain time attributed to Rogerius, and the ordo iudiciorum ‘Quicumque vult’ by Johannes Bassianus.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
This Decretum by Gratian is a copy of an archetype which contains an ‘archaic’ text belonging to the the Σ-group and with a reduced number of paleae in the text, which were integrated partly at a later time. The codex was used in several schools in Italy and in Southern France. In the first layer of glosses is a copy of the Glossa ordinaria by Johannes Teutonicus (published in 1215/16), in the following layers there is a copy by several hands of Bartholomew of Brescia’s additiones to the Glossa ordinaria, as well as glosses by canonists mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
A leaf in Carolingian minuscule, containing a fragment of De institutione musica by Boethius (Liber VI, chap. 18 and Liber V, Capitula). It constitutes the upper half of the left leaf of fragment R 1.1.10 from the state archives of Solothurn. It is part of the same manuscript as the fragments R 1.5.7, R 1.5.8 and R 1.1.11 from the above-mentioned archives. It was probably used as binding for a document from the archives of the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
Lower half of a bifolium in Carolingian minuscule, containing a fragment of De institutione musica by Boethius (Liber VI, chap. 18 and Liber V, Capitula and chap. 2). The upper half of the left part is fragment R 1.1.9 from the state archives of Solothurn. This fragment is part of the same manuscript as the fragments R 1.5.7, R 1.5.8 and R 1.1.11 from those same archives. It was probably used as binding for a document from the archives of the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
Upper half of a leaf in Carolingian minuscule, containing a fragment of De institutione musica by Boethius (Liber I, Proemium, chap. 2). It is part of the same manuscript as the fragments R 1.5.7, R.1.5.8, R 1.1.9 and R.1.1.10 from the state archives of Solothurn. It was probably used as binding for a document from the archives of the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
Bifolium in Carolingian minuscule, containing a fragment of De institutione musica by Boethius (Liber I, chap. 18-19, 20). It is part of the same manuscript as the fragments R 1.5.8, R 1.1.9, R 1.1.10 and R 1.1.11 from the state archives of Solothurn. This bifolium was used as binding for the Liber fabricae sub littera C, with accounts from 1522 to 1528 from the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
Bifolium in Carolingian minuscule, containing a fragment of De institutione musica by Boethius (Liber I, chap. 23-14 and Liber II, chap. 8). It is part of the same manuscript as the fragments R 1.5.7, R 1.1.9, R 1.1.10 and R 1.1.11 from the state archives of Solothurn. This bifolium was used as binding for the Liber Cellae sub littera AA, with accounts from 1520 from the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
Parchment bifolium containing a part of the 9th century treatise on music theory Musica enchiriadis. While it was attributed to the Benedictine monk Hucbald for a long time, today it is considered the work of an anonymous author. The bifolium was used as binding for the Liber Cellae sub littera V, with accounts from 1526 to 1528 from the collegiate church of St. Leodegar in Schönenwerd.
Online Since: 12/14/2017