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| May 2011, Issue N° 1
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Welcome
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e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland – is now pleased to offer a newsletter with up-to-date information about a variety of project activities. From now on, we will regularly provide information about updates to our webpage, cimelia, collaborating libraries, and our various partner projects, together with news about research in the field of Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts in Switzerland.
Best regards,
The e-codices Team
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e-codices
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The goal of the e-codices project is to provide access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts held in Switzerland via a virtual library. On the e-codices site, complete digital reproductions of the manuscripts are linked with corresponding scholarly descriptions. Our aim is to serve not only manuscript researchers, but also interested members of the general public.
At the moment, the virtual library contains 744 manuscripts from 33 different libraries. The virtual library will be continuously updated and extended.
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Most Recent Update
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The oldest surviving Mass Antiphonary, held by the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln, the Reichenau Brothers’ Book, containing the names of 38,000 monks, and a manuscript on Horse Medicine from the 15th century are just three of the codices newly available on e-codices. A total of 22 manuscripts were added to the website as of the end of March 2011:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/LastUpdate/
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New Participating Libraries
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Three new libraries have just begun to provide access to their collections on e-codices. Our offerings are now enriched by cimelia from the Cantonal and University Library of Fribourg, including one of the most often re-copied texts of the Middle Ages: the Legenda aurea. Another new addition is the Provincial Archive of the Swiss Capuchins in Lucerne, which holds the Legenda maior s. Francisci by St. Bonaventure, in a copy written by two Claretian nuns. In addition, the Schaffhausen State Archives presents items including the Richtebrief, written in about 1300, the oldest Schaffhausen codex produced outside of the cloister.
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Unusual Items from the Manuscript Library: the Dracula Manuscript
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This manuscript owes its name to six pages of its content (pp. 283-288), an untitled section containing 30 brief tales written in about 1500 about the deeds of the Walachian Lord Vlad III. Tepes ("the Impaler"; 1431-1476). The other content of this composite manuscript consists mainly of historic and hagiographic thematic material.
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/csg/0806
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