Copies and regesta of privileges and documents from the 14th to the 16th century, concerning the Meierhof (an estate run by a steward) in Erlinsbach. Begun around 1525, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries. Parchment binding with square notation. (stt)

In the 15th century, one of the most popular devotional works was the guide to Christian life by the Basel Franciscan Otto von Passau, entitled “Die vierundzwanzig Alten”. Around 170 manuscripts and fragments thereof have survived. Many are from nuns' convents or were meant for lay brothers. This manuscript from Hermetschwil Convent was copied by Sophie Schwarzmurer of Zurich, who later became Mother Superior. (gam)

On 366 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from February 1544 to July 1548. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region. (fre)

On 304 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from July 1548 to April 1551. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region. (fre)

On 196 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from May 1552 to March 1554. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region. (fre)

On 164 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from March 1554 to November 1556. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region. (fre)

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. (fre)

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. (fre)

This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. In the back part it also contains lists of the members of the jury and of the court (Gassengericht), as well as the minutes of the Landesgemeinde and the Council from 1548 to 1551. (fre)

This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. It also has on the last pages an (incomplete) list of these reports. (fre)

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. (fre)

This booklet contains a collection of recipes for producing medications, home remedies and foodstuffs. The presentation of the recipes ranges from lists of ingredients to detailed texts that describe the processing of the ingredients. The manuscript does not have an index. A page from a manuscript - probably 14th century - serves as book cover. Its visible text is about the geometry of triangles (De triangulo). In the first half of the 20th century, the book was purchased at the bookstore Helbing & Lichtenhahn by Theo Baeschlin and then donated to the Pharmaceutical Institute of Basel. (wan)

This manuscript is a pharmacopoeia and recipe book. It contains many recipes against “pistilienz” and other diseases. Sentences and entire parts of instructions for medications are crossed out. The book is not paginated and does not have an index at the end. (wan)

This first volume of the Liber alumnorum of the Basel college in the Augustinergasse lists the students in the residence hall from 1594-1658 and from 1667-1682. In addition to the lists of alumni, the volume also contains agreements and settlements with the bakers who supplied the college with bread. (flr)

The Sefer Nizzaḥon Yashan is the name of an anonymous anthology of arguments against the Christological interpretation of biblical verses, supplemented by critique of the Gospels and Christian doctrines and morals. Composed in Franco-Germany circa 1300, most confutations are based on polemical themes and criticisms of Christian faith which were disseminated in Jewish circles in medieval Ashkenaz and northern France. There are few extant editions and manuscripts of this work, one of which is the Basel Nizzaḥon. This manuscript which bears some similarities with the other copies, should nevertheless be considered as an indirect, yet important witness to Jewish apologetic from medieval Franco-Germany. (iss)

This manuscript contains the French text of the heroic epic (chanson de geste) Ami et Amile. The scribe gives the period of the creation of this copy (from 16 May to 23 June 1425) in a colophon. The text is written in a Gothic cursive and is punctuated by numerous rubricated initials that mark the beginning of each verse. The modern cardboard binding is covered by a parchment fragment from a 15th century missal. An inscription on the flyleaf indicates that this volume was a gift to the writer Anne de Graville (1490-1540). Later it was part of the collection belonging to her son-in-law, the bibliophile Claude d'Urfé (1501-1558). In the 19th century, the work came into the possession of the philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel (1806-1869), who donated it to the University Library Basel in 1843. (mal)

The calendar was produced in the Basel Charterhouse around 1424–1428. It contains 36 pages with various texts, tables, zodiac signs, lunar and solar eclipses, as well as information on day lengths and bloodletting times. Prior Heinrich Arnoldi made numerous additions and corrections, the last-mentioned date in the text is 1478. The volume is composed of paper, is rubricated, shows signs of wear and tear, and is bound with a limp parchment binding made from charters. (stu)

This large-format 11th century manuscript by Martianus Capella transmits the first two books of his work De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, one of the most widely-read books of the Middle Ages, together with Remigius of Auxerre's commentary, which was written for instruction. Noteworthy is the contemporaneous original binding: the quires are attached to the parchment cover with thin strips of parchment (cf. Szirmai). (gam/flr)

This manuscript contains a Latin translation in pre-Carolingian script of the "Antiquitates Judaicae", originally written in Greek by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the first century. CB 98 was produced in the Benedictine abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola (Province of Modena), as was Ms. CB 99, which also contains texts by Flavius Josephus. (fmb)

This codex contains the Jewish War, originally written by the historian Flavius Josephus in the 1st century. The 7 books of De bello Judaico present an account of the Jewish rebellion from the year 66 until the overthrow of Masada in the year 73. CB 99, like Ms. CB 98, was produced in the Benedictine abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola (Province of Modena), though later than CB 98 and by different scribes. (fmb)