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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.
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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.
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This volume contains Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports on alleged crimes. It also has on the first pages an (incomplete) list of the accused persons.
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The volume contains the record of examinations, that is criminal investigation. But it also has Kundschaften, that is, witness statements or reports.
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This volume contains a register of mortgage titles (Zeddel), organized according to Rhoden. It is not clear when the register was produced and until when it was maintained. The dating corresponds to the period of production of the mortgage titles that are indicated.
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Two Metaphysics from the library of the Basel Charterhouse: Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the thirteenth century Greek-Latin translation by William of Moerbeke, copied personally by the previous owner of the manuscript Johannes Heynlin von Stein, and the so-called Metaphysica by Avicenna/Ibn-Sīnā, in the twelfth-century Arabic-Latin translation produced at Toledo, copied by an otherwise unknown Wilhelm Hartung von Offenburg, probably on commission from Heynlin. The paper in both parts is the same; the different watermarks support the hypothesis that the manuscript was produced at Paris in the third quarter of the fifteenth century and came to Basel with Heynlin, but it is likely was first bound after his entry into the Basel Charterhouse.
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This Aristotle manuscript from the library of the Basel Charterhouse contains the Organon along with Porphyrius’ introduction and the usual supplements, translated into Latin, mostly by Boethius. Four of the five parts were copied personally by the manuscript’s owner Johannes Heynlin von Stein, almost certainly from another, older exemplar from the rich collection of books, in different scripts, that he acquired in Paris. The last part, probably not copied by him, is dated at the end to 1463 (f. 482r). The paper comes from French mills, and is largely identical to that used by Heynlin for his personal copy of the Metaphysics (F I 4, part 2).
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The composite manuscript of works by or ascribed to William of Ockham, written a few decades before the production of this copy, has been extensively studied and nearly entirely edited. It is also the only known witness of one of his works. Its origin has not been definitely established; similar bindings come from the Dominican convent of Basel, but the Franciscan convent has already been suggested as its place of origin.
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This manuscript from the Basel Charterhouse contains the Novus Grecismus: an encyclopedic grammar that was written by Konrad von Mure (1210-1281), canon and teacher at the Zürich Grossmünster. The manuscript was bound in the Basel Charterhouse and was in its library already at the time of Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1407-1487, prior 1449-1480). Probably in 1590, it came to the University Library, along with the rest of the collection of the Charterhouse.
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This paper manuscript contains three rare prose adaptations of verse epics in High Alemannic. In addition to the Zürcher Buch vom Heilgen Karl, which connects Charlemagne's biography with the foundation legend of the Zurich Cathedral, and the Heroic tale Willehalm, the codex has a Lob eines alten Mannes auf die Liebe seiner Frau, which consists of three excerpts from the first translation of Niklas von Wyle. While the first two works are each witnessed by two other manuscripts, the last text of this compilation appears only in this manuscript. The mention of a scribe named Heirich on f. 69va dates this part to 1483.
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This composite manuscript contains texts of varying subjects and dates. The first part contains manuscripts produced by various hands. It begins with a treatise on the Immaculate Conception of Mary (1451). Then comes an exhortation for the clergy to dispatch their duties conscientiously, with instructions on administering the sacraments, particularly rules concerning marriage. It also contains astronomical tables and texts, such as verses on the Zodiac. Indications of the manuscript’s Solothurn provenance are the accounts of the passion of Saints Maurice, Ursus, and Victor, metrical poems on the Theban Legion, and drafts for the proper of the feast of St. Ursus. It is probably that the texts were written in the circle of the provosts of the Solothurn Collegiate Church Felix Hemmerli and Jakob Hüglin. The second part of this volume is a 1490 incunable printing of the Fasciculus Temporum by Werner Rolevinck.
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This missal was prepared in Northern Italy, perhaps Como, as can be inferred from the presence in the calendar of the chief saints of that diocese. It likely arrived in Sonvico at the time of the establishment of the parish in 1419, at which occasion it received a new binding and the local feasts were inserted into the calendar. On a few pages that were originally blank, and on a few others that were inserted, is written information on local events (fires, cloudbursts, storms) and the chronicle of the parish priests from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. All the illuminated initials, and perhaps a miniature with the crucifixion at the beginning of the canon, were removed between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
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This autograph manuscript of the jurist and monk Johannes Bischoff contains primarily a more-or-less alphabetically-ordered collection of canon law as well as a compilation of titles of the Decretales Gregorii IX with their parallel passages in the Decretum Gratiani, Liber Sextus, and the Clementinae. This is followed by further notes and additions, including some on the deeds of Columban and Gallus, as well as a treatise on law that Johannes Bischoff († 1495) wrote in connection with the building of a new abbey in Rorschach and its destruction.
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This paper manuscript contains the sixth-century grammarian Eugraphius’ commentary on the comedies of Terence (and not a commentary on Donatus, as was thought by G. Scherrer, 1875). According to the colophon (p. 177), the text was elegantly copied by Johannes Merwart (from Wemding), known for his professional scribal activity when he was a student of canon law at the University of Basel. This volume belonged to the secretary of the town of Saint-Gall, Johannes Widenbach († ca. 1456), whose name and coat of arms appear in two places in the codex (p. 2 and 194), like in another manuscript kept at the Stiftsbibliothek (Cod. Sang. 749, lower pastedown). Based on the library stamp of abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 178), the manuscript was in the Stiftsbibliothek since at least 1533-1564.
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This fourteenth-century manuscript, copied in two columns by a single hand, contains a commentary on the lections of the Gospels and the Epistles for Lent. The numbering in the running titles counts 61, which are alphabetically listed in a long content index (p. 3-28). This index has been revised and corrected, along with the rest of the manuscript, in a darker ink. The citations of the Gospels and the Epistles are underlined in red. The various component parts of the sermons are indicated by an alphabetic letter, also written in red in the side margins, and the references – chiefly to Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, but also to Albert the Great – are written in an abbreviated form in the lower margin. The possession note (p. 1) states that the book belonged to the monastery of St. Gall, even before Abbot Diethelm Blarer applied his stamp between 1553 and 1564 (p. 462). In the fifteenth century, the red leather cover of the Gothic binding was itself covered by a second cover, in leather, and the two boards were decorated with metal bosses.
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Produced during the fourteenth century, this manuscript of tiny dimensions contains sermons, but also excerpts from the Church Fathers and the philosophers. It is copied by a single scribe (except for a few additions, such as the XV signa ante diem iudicii on ff. 119v-120r) on two columns, except for a few single-column folios (f. 5v-10v, 25r-30v). Simple initials, in red and blue, adorn the text. According to the possession note on f. 120v, the codex was at abbey of St. Gall by the fifteenth century at the latest.
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The bulk of this manuscript consists of Latin sermons from the temporal (pp. 9a-21b) and from the sanctoral (pp. 21b-127b). They were copied by a single fourteenth-century scribe on two columns and each sermon is introduced by a rubric. While most of the feasts have a single sermon, the feast of Saint Catherine has seven lections (pp. 89b-108b). The remainder of the manuscript was copied with a variable layout by different hands from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It contains sermons in Latin as well as in German. The last four pages come from a thirteenth-century breviary copied in a single column (pp. 177-180). A possession note (p. 127b) states that, in the fifteenth century, this codex belonged to a certain Johanna Sumerin de Messkirch: Qui hoc invenit, Iohanne Sumerin de Meskilch reddere debet … The front board of the half-leather Gothic binding has grooves and canals on the front edge; these in fact served to attach the board to the spine. Apparently, the front board, broken vertically along the back, was turned around, repaired, and reutilized.
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The manuscript has three codicological units (pp. 5–76, 77–168, 169–184), which differ in layout and script. They chiefly contain sermons, and a few Marian miracles in the second part (e.g., p. 118). Some feasts or saints, such as the Assumption (pp. 94-96, 171-175), St. John the Baptist (pp. 88, 175-178, 183-184) and especially Saint Catherine (pp. 65, 106–109, 148–153), appear in many or all parts of this manuscript. The binding, covered in red leather, dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
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The manuscript is made up of seven codicological units (pp. 5–52, 53–76, 77–92, 93–124, 125–140, 141–156, 157–164), which are sometimes incomplete and which have different layouts, scripts, and decoration. They all contain sermons and were copied in the fourteenth century. Only the first series of sermons (pp. 5-46) ends with a table of contents (p. 46-52); at the beginning of series appears the library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer on a manuscript fragment containing on the recto a sermon (p. 3) and, on the verso, a miracle involving a usurer (p. 4). The cardboard binding, covered with leather on the back and corners, has a fragment of a printed breviary and dates from the seventeenth/eighteenth century.
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This volume brings together two paper manuscripts (pp. 1-238, 239-429) of the sermons of Peregrinus de Oppeln (ca. 1260-1333), Dominican prior and provincial minister of Poland. The first is dated by the explicit (p. 218) to 18 July 1458 and contains his Sermones de sanctis (pp. 3-218). The following pages (pp. 218-236) are in the hand of the same copyist and include excerpts from the life of Saint Wiborada (pp. 220-236). The second manuscript contains Peregrinus de Oppeln’s Sermones de tempore, but was copied in the fourteenth century (pp. 237-429). Introduced with a decorated initial (p. 239), this part is very neat, annotated, and bears an amusing caricature of Satan (p. 342). According to the possession note on p. 428, at least the second part belonged to the Franciscan Johannes Schirmer. As the original binding attests, these two parts had to have been bound together in the fifteenth century.
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