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The manuscript contains a text of the Elder or Poetic Edda, sometimes referred to as Sæmundar Edda, in the (mistaken) belief that it had been compiled by the late 11th/early 12th-century Icelandic priest Sæmundur Sigfússon, known as Sæmundur fróði (the wise). According to the manuscript’s preface, it was copied from a copy made by Páll Jónsson Vídalín (1667-1727) of Árni Magnússon's autograph copy of the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), but also contains texts of several other poems that were considered part of the Eddic corpus but are not found in Codex Regius. In an afterward, it says that the manuscript was written in 1762 by Halldór Bjarnason Vídalín (1736-1801) at Reykir in Miðfjörður based on an exemplar provided by his father, Bjarni Halldórsson, sheriff of Húnavatnssýsla. It is further stated that the manuscript was copied for one Charles Bertram, an expatriate British antiquarian resident in Copenhagen.
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The manuscript contains a text of the Elder or Poetic Edda, sometimes referred to as Sæmundar Edda, in the (mistaken) belief that it had been compiled by the late 11th/early 12th-century Icelandic priest Sæmundur Sigfússon, known as Sæmundur fróði (the wise). According to the manuscript’s preface, it was copied from a copy made by Páll Jónsson Vídalín (1667-1727) of Árni Magnússon's autograph copy of the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), but also contains texts of several other poems that were considered part of the Eddic corpus but are not found in Codex Regius. In an afterward, it says that the manuscript was written in 1762 by Halldór Bjarnason Vídalín (1736-1801) at Reykir in Miðfjörður based on an exemplar provided by his father, Bjarni Halldórsson, sheriff of Húnavatnssýsla. It is further stated that the manuscript was copied for one Charles Bertram, an expatriate British antiquarian resident in Copenhagen.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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The notary Konrad Brunner, alias Moedely, copied the obituary of the Schaffhausen city church of Sankt Johann from an older anniversarium (copyist’s note on f. 34v). With over 200 names of Schaffhausen citizens, it constitutes an important source for local-historical and genealogical research.
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The fifteenth-century obituary of the Francsican convent of Schaffhausen has over 1000 entries of names. It also has the German-language Marian lament "O du uzvliezender brunne“ (Version A) (p. 76), which was inserted by a certain Frater Rudolffus on 26 July, 1478 at the end of the obituary. The front pastedown contains a tabula electorum, in which the assignment of the friars to the individual houses of the Order is recorded.
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The manuscript is made up of three parts. It contains a calendar and a sequentiary, a mass formulary and an order of the mass, and a gradual and a sacramentary. The manuscript was at Pfäfers abbey since at least the seventeenth/eighteenth century.
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This manuscript contains an introductory text to the Abbey and Baths of Pfäfers, as well as to the chronicler Konrad von Pfäfers. The main part presents a chronology that covers the arc from the origin of the Raetians to the end of the first war of Villmergen in 1656.
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This massive manuscript, dated 1435, contains a series of texts listed on the table of contents (pp. 1a-3a). Almost entirely copied by a single hand, the texts are arranged in two columns and introduced by rubrics and simple red initials, except for the first initial, which is larger and executed in blue (p. 5). In addition to the Liber collationum sanctorum patrum (pp. 5a-185b), the Vitae patrum (pp. 186a-225a), and the Verba seniorum (pp. 581a-695a), it contains devotional texts, such as the Thomas a Kempis’ De imitatione Christi (pp. 235b-279b) and the Liber de medela animae (pp. 364b-406b). The red leather binding dates from the fifteenth century.
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The paper manuscript contains sermons for the temporal cycle by Anthony of Parma. Copied in two columns by two different hands (pp. 1-140; pp. 141-232), the codex is incomplete, with the text breaking off at p. 232b in the middle of a Gospel citation (Mt 7,3; Lc 6,41). The initials of the sermons have not been filled in, except for between pages 143 and 199. German-language notes have been added to the bottom margin of the first pages of the codex. The manuscript finishes with a large number of pages that were left blank (pp. 233-300), one of which (p. 234) has the library stamp of Abbot-Prince Diethelm Blarer, from between 1553 and 1564. The quires are reinforced by parchment strips from a Bible dating to the first half of the fourteenth century.
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The paper manuscript contains several codicological units (pp. 1–28, almost entirely empty; pp. 29-146; p. 149 [sic]-176, empty; pp. 207 [sic]-222; pp. 225 [sic]-244; pp. 245-268, pp. 269-278, empty). A series of sermons (pp. 29-145), following the liturgical order and missing the beginning, is copied in two columns. Each sermon is numbered in the margin, and the Sunday for which it is prepared is often written on the recto of the folio (e.g., p. 33: do[mini]ca quinta). A possessor’s note (p. 146) states that this part of the codex belonged to Johannes Bischoff, monk of Saint Gall (ca. 1460-1495), or to one of two other persons with the same name who are attested around the monastery at the time. This volume also contains the Summarium biblicum, a text in verse composed of keywords put together without syntactic order, which summarize entire chapters of the Bible, accompanied by interlinear glosses (pp. 207-222). There follows the Speculum sacerdotum (pp. 245-258) by the Augustinian Hermit Hermann de Schildesche (1290-1357). Finally, the codex ends with an excerpt from John of Freiburg’s Confessionale sive tractatus de instructione confessorum (pp. 258-262). The half-leather binding dates from the fifteenth century and the inside board have the offset of fragments that have been detached.
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This paper manuscript, dated 1389 (p. 455), contains a series of sermons on the apostles, martyrs, confessors, and virgins (pp. 3-275), then on the Virgin Mary (pp. 290-353). Copied evenly in a single column, the sermons begin with a simple red-painted initial and a rubric. This first part has a previous foliation in black ink in the center of the upper margin (1-177). The next part also begins with an older foliation (1-30) that breaks off before the end. Copied by a hand different from that of the preceding section, and without initials or rubrics, this section has sermons de sanctis (pp. 358-455). The limp binding in brown leather over parchment dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
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A single scribe copied this fourteenth-century paper manuscript in two columns. Rubrics and red initials introduce the various texts, most of which are sermons de sanctis and de tempore, whose topics are in part listed on the front flyleaf (f. Ar). The manuscript also includes some treatises, such as an excerpt from the Stella clericorum (ff. 15rb-18rb), another on the mass (ff. 18r-20rb), with an incipit ascribing it to Thomas Aquinas, but which has since been attributed to the Premonstratensian Richardus de Wedinghausen. A possessor’s note from the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century states that, in case the manuscript is borrowed, it should be returned to the monastery of Saint Gall: Iste liber est monasterii Sancti Galli et eodem monasterio restituendus (f. Ar).
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