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This 198-page paper volume contains chiefly declarations, that is, transcriptions of witness statements. In addition, it includes judgments, decisions of the Council and the Landsgemeinde, sureties, renunciatory oaths, registers of judges, and agendas of the councils and the Landsgemeinde.
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This volume contains decisions of the councils (“antworten”), declarations, that is, witness statements, as well as renunciatory oaths, in which delinquents promise not to take revenge against persons who took part in criminal proceedings against them. It also includes renewals of land rights held by foreign countrymen, dated from 1550 to 1604. The volume chiefly encompasses the years 1557 to 1566, with later entries up to 1621.
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The volume contains on 584 paper pages the decisions of the Appenzell Councils in concise form. It also has many renunciatory oaths, by which delinquents promise not to take revenge on persons who participated in the criminal proceedings against them, as well as a register of wool-yarn dealers (f. 256v and 281r).
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According to the introduction, this volume contains the decisions of the Councils as well as the renunciatory oaths, by which delinquents promised not to take revenge on the persons who participated in criminal proceedings against them. But it also includes a few land-rights renewals held by foreign countrymen, as well as inkeeper licenses and authorizations for boiling saltpeter and for settling.
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The volume contains on 182 paper pages chiefly law-related decisions of the various Councils, which gives the volume the character of a book of mandates. The term Antwortenbuch (“book of answers”) used in the volume title and in the introduction applies only to a small number of court judgments, notices, and administrative measures that the Councils delivered at the request of countrymen.
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The volume contains on 178 paper pages records of legal regulations valid throughout the country, which regulations were repeatedly substantiated and adopted by the Councils and were proclaimed from the church pulpits to the people of the country. The volume also includes registers of millers, inkeepers, and dairy merchants in the country.
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The band contains on 390 paper pages records of legal regulations valid throughout the land, which regulations were repeatedly substantiated and adopted by the Councils and proclaimed from the church pulpits to the people of the country.
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The volume contains the annual list of the members of the Great and Petty Council of Appenzell, classified according to rhoden. The names were entered into narrow gatherings that were only later bound into a book. The binding consists of a re-used fragment with musical notation.
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The volume contains in its main section on parchment (pp. 47-108) the statutes of the country of Appenzell, whose origins go back to the beginning of the fifteenth century. The volume also has a calendar on paper (pp. 5-19) as well as additions to the statutes, also on paper (pp. 111ff. and p. 124). The first 24 pages of the statutes are written in a single hand, with additions, marginal notes, and titles written in other hands; thereafter, further entries in different ink and in a denser script come from the 1530s and 40s. The initials are calligraphically decorated, sometimes adorned with braided lace, flowers, and faces that often end in corncob-shaped forms.
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Purchased at auction in 2023, this volume, which for a long time remained in private hands, adds to the number of works known to have been commissioned by the bishop of the diocese of Basel, Jean de Venningen (1458-1479). This is a pontifical that belongs to the same group of liturgical manuscripts as a missal-pontifical (ms. 1) and two other pontificals (mss. 2 and 3), produced around 1462-1463 and conserved in the ancient collection of the Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne. This pontifical shares some blessings with each of the three others. Copied by a single scribe, it is embellished with a dozen ornate or historiated initials similar to those of other manuscripts in this group, attributed to a certain Hans, parish priest of Hésingue, on the basis of the illuminator’s name appearing in the register of the bishop’s expenses (Gamper/Jurot 1999).
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Jean Germain Fidèle Bajol is both the author and the copyist of this history, in Latin, of the bishops of Basel. He dedicated his text to Bishop François Xavier de Neveu (pp. 7-11), whose coat of arms is depicted immediately before the dedication (p. 6). The text consists of eight biographies in order: Jean Conrad de Roggenbach (pp. 13-14); Guillaume Rink de Baldenstein (pp. 15-16); Jean Conrad de Reinach-Hirtzbach (pp. 17-23); Jacques Sigismond de Reinach-Steinbrunn (pp. 24-27); Joseph Guillaume Rinck de Baldenstein (pp. 28-33); Simon Nicolas de Montjoye d’Hirsingue (pp. 34-39); Frédéric Louis François de Wangen-Geroldseck (pp. 40-45); Franz Joseph Sigismond de Roggenbach (pp. 46-55); François-Xavier de Neveu (pp. 56-61). The carefully-produced copy is clearly structured: a rubric gives the name of the bishop, then the text follows in a single column inside a pencil-drawn frame, with the dates in the margin. The last date indicated, 1803 (p. 60), provides the terminus post quem for the completion of the volume.
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This volume contains two distinct works. The first is a copy of the formulary of the Basel Church Court, in use circa 1640 in the office of the diocesan officialis, at the time based in Altkirch and led by Johannis Georgius Goetzmann (p. V9). It was copied in Altkirch in 1753 by Johannis Theobald Roeslin, Apostolic Notary to the Episcopal Court of Basel. The formulas are chiefly in Latin, but also in German and more rarely in French (pp. 1-365). The style of script changes according to the language used. An alphabetical index finishes the first part (pp. 369-374). The second text, in French, was copied by a certain “Vannesson”, clerk to the Episcopal Court (p. 382), contains the judicial formulas for “conducting criminal proceedings against ecclesiastics” (pp. 383-465). These formulas have been copied with blanks to be filled in with names, places, and dates of the offenses to be tried. The tables at the end refer to the original pagination in Roman numerals (pp. 467-470).
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This parchment manuscript contains several texts relating to the statutes of the Basel Cathedral Chapter, located since 1679 in Arlesheim. The main title, written with a very elegant calligraphy – Statuta cathedralis ecclesiae Basileensis non tam renovata quam in meliorem ordinem redacta Anno Domini 1681 – fills a full page and specifies that the statutes were composed in 1681 (f. 1r). The incipits of the four gospels that follow are stamped with a miniature representing the face of Christ in a medallion with a blue background (f. 1v-s1r). The statutes are written in Latin, and more rarely in German (which involves a change in the style of script). After this text appears a letter of Bishop Jean Conrad de Roggenbach, dated to 1683 (f. 37r-37v), followed by a copy of Innocent XII’s confirmation of the statutes, dated 1693 (ff. 38r-44v). This volume was purchased in 1857 at a sale of Felicis Schneider, printer in Basel, for the library Petro-Mariana (f. V2r). It then belonged to the bishop of Basel, Eugène Lachat, as Louis Vautrey explains in his monumental Histoire des évêques de Bâle (vol. II, 1886, p. 267, n°3).
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This paper manuscript, copied by a single scribe, has various materials related to the history of the Diocese of Basel. The title on the spine reads: “Catalogue des Evêques d. Bâle”. It begins with general information on the history and organization of the diocese, including a list of roles at the episcopal court (pp. 9-11) and another one of the vassals of the bishopric (pp. 11-13). Then, after a table of contents listing the bishops of the diocese, from Saint Pantalus to Joseph Guillaume Rinck de Baldenstein (pp. 14-16), there follow summaries in German of the deeds done under their episcopates, dating from 238 to 1747 (pp. 17-131). As the ex libris on the front pastedown states, this work belonged to Pierre Joseph Koetschet (1800-1869) when he was director of the Collège de Delémont.
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This paper manuscript contains multiple texts by Marcel Moureau, described in a table of contents (p. 436-s25). The author, after having studied at the Jesuit College of Porrentruy, entered the Cistercian abbey of Lucelle, where he taught philosophy and theology, as he did later at Hauterive and at Neubourg (Alsace). From 1782, he served as priest in Folgensbourg (Alsace), and this is the title that he uses at the bottom of the title page of the first text in this collection – Introductio in Historiam Patriam Veterum Rauracorum… (p. V3) – dedicated to his history of Rauracia, its etymology, its locales, its language (particularly the patois), etc. (pp. 1-76). Written in Latin as a dialogue, the six parts of this history were dedicated in 1784 to Bishop Sigismond de Roggenbach (pp. V5-V9). Then follows the history of the monastery of Neubourg, also by Marcel Moreau (pp. 81-101). Afterwards appear a series of copies of letters sent to the National Assembly, in connection with the efforts to preserve the religious orders and to prevent the alienation of ecclesiastical property (pp. 105-131; 133-144; 149-160; 165-168), followed by the “Correspondance d’un Suisse avec un Rauraque relativement à la révolution operée dans la principauté de Porrentruy en 1792 et 1793…” (pp. 173-216). These are the same years covered by the next text of Moreau, “Bulletin des faits arrivés dans l’Évêché de Bâle” (pp. 225-372). Then follows a second series of letters, these pastoral in nature, from the bishop of Alès, Louis-François de Bausset (p. 373 ff.) and from the titular bishop of Lydda, Jean-Baptiste Gobel (p. 393 ff.). Marcel Moreau’s final texts, laid out in epistolary style, describe an “Itinéraire de la Suisse septentrionale” (pp. 436-s1-436-s23) and a “Promenade fatigante mais agréable du Pichoux” (pp. 437-502).
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The volume is composed of a manuscript and a printed part, as well as a large number of blank pages. For the printed part, some pages, editions of papal bulls, are glued onto sheets of paper (pp. 173-276), while others – the apostolic letter of Alexander VII promulgated in 1666 to reform the constitutions of the Cistercian Order (pp. 285-300), and a second text with similar content from Clement IX promulgated in 1668 (pp. 303-314) – are not. The manuscript part opens with a copy of the privileges of Lucelle Abbey, dating from 1186 to 1563 (pp. 1-100), complemented with a second series of privileges for the same abbey, dated from 1139 to 1646, and copied in a second hand (pp. 117-165). Two apostolic letters of Clement VIII can also be found (pp. 109-115, and 315-322), as well as an edition, Validitatis Capituli Generalis pro Reverendis PP. Abbatibus Germania, ord. Cist. Contra Reverendos abbates strictioris observantia, that was published in 1673 in Rome (pp. 323-356). Finally, there appears a copy, dated to 1674, of a series of documents, including decrees, connected to Lucelle Abbey (pp. 461-507).
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The volume contains two registers of the Jesuit personnel of the province of Upper Germany, dated 1765 (pp. 3-250; 251-358). The title page is printed (p. 3, 251), as is the checked table that extends across the double page. In the first catalogue, the table is divided into five columns on the left page and three on the right, with the following columns: surname and given name (nomen et cognomen), origin (patria nat. dioecesis), age (aetas), date of entry into the Order (tempus societatis), time spent in study (tempus stud.), previous and actual roles (ministeria obita), university degree (gradus in liter.) and category of oaths taken (gradus in societ.). In the second catalogue, the division of the columns differs, with the loss of the categories of time spent in study and university degree, and the gain of a category related to office (conditio). What is handwritten is the names of the Jesuits, classified according to alphabetical order of the given name. Although dating to the same year, these two catalogues do not have the same series of names. Although such works were intended to be sent to the Company of Jesus headquarters in Rome, this one appears in Delémont in the possession of the Jura historian Louis Vautrey (1882-1886), as the ex libris (p. 1) states.
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This manuscript has a register of persons who professed at the Jesuits of Porrentruy from 1669 to 1788 (pp. 1-122). As opposed to the two semi-printed catalogues in the volume A2610, this one is entirely handwritten. Ordered chronologically, it is signed by different members of the Order and ends in 1788. An index of names organized by year rounds out the volume (pp. 169-178). It later belonged to the Jura historian Louis Vautrey (1829-1886) in Delémont (p. VI).
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The manuscript contains the cumulative list of the Jesuits of the congregation of the Purification of the Virgin of Porrentruy. The title page, particularly detailed, imitates contemporary typographical decoration for initials (p. 1). Since the period covered by the list stretches from 1603 to 1707 (p. 240), the names are written by several different hands. A chronological and alphabetical index (pp. 241-270) lists all the names, which are further classified according to roles (prefect, assistant, secretary, etc.). The second part of the manuscript, introduced by a title page written in capital letters and dated 1641 (p. 271), enumerates in chronological order the names and various roles of the Jesuits of Porrentruy (up to 1681). The pages that follow contain, among other things, the annual lists of students at the Jesuit college of Porrentruy, up to 1720 (p. 402). The old pagination of the manuscript is discontinuous, because a certain number of pages have been removed.
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A magnificently laid-out summer part of a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Franciscan breviary. In addition to the red and blue lombards, the manuscript has impressive gold-background initials. The calendar refers to the diocese of Constance; possibly the breviary belonged to the convent of Paradies. Glued to the back pastedown, the depiction of a nun kneeling before an enthroned Christ with a bleeding head cannot be dated with certainty.
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