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Schaffhausen, Konzernarchiv Georg Fischer AG, GFA 1/144.35 : Memory album Johann Conrad Fischer
No full textThis leather-bound paper manuscript with gold embossing (digits of the year 1791 in each of the four corners of the book) is the memory album of Johann Conrad Fischer (1773-1854), coppersmith, metallurgist, entrepreneur and politician from Schaffhausen. His cast steel factory, founded in 1802, developed into the current Georg Fischer Ltd. The album contains dedications and illustrations by about 70 people with whom Fischer was in touch during his lifetime, among them his math teacher Melchior Hurter (1735-1811) (p. 1), Professor Johann Georg Müller (1759-1819) (p. 49), the physician Johann Balthasar Zwingli from Zurich (1764-1817) (p. 164), the writer Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) (p. 175), Fischer’s great–uncle Lorenz Spengler (1720-1807), head of the Royal Art Chamber in Copenhagen (p. 43), and his son Johann Conrad Spengler (1767-1839) (p. 105). The majority of the entries are in German, French, English and Danish and date from his years of travel as a journeyman coppersmith in 1792-1795, when he traveled via Frankfurt, Chemnitz, Dresden to Copenhagen and on to London. Occasional further entries continue until 1841. The entries are not in chronological order and alternate with pasted-in pages (pp. 3a-b, 48a, 111a-d) and numerous blank pages. The numbering of the pages is from the time of the creation of the album.Online Since: 2017-06-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2018 : Catalogue de Mrs les Pensionnaires du Collège de l\u27Abbaye de Bellelay
No full textThis catalog of the residents of the college of Belleleay was drawn up in 1791, as indicated by the label on the front cover of the manuscript. Nevertheless, it contains the names of residents who attended this institution from 1772 to 1797, at which point 464 names were registered. On the last five written pages, dated 1835, M. Jean de Montherot (no. 305) provides numerically ordered notes regarding the careers of some them.Online Since: 2018-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 15 / A1451-1 : François-Joseph Guélat, Memoirs of the Revolution (Volume I)
No full textThe Porrentruy lawyer François-Joseph Guélat (1736-1825) is one of the most well-known chroniclers to have described life in the Jura at the moment of the Revolution. Divided into three manuscript volumes, the text was published in 1906 by B. Boéchat et Fils in Delémont, with the title Journal de François-Joseph Guélat 1791-1802. The first volume starts in 1791 and runs to 1793 (28 July). The year is given at the top of each page, above the left margin, where are mentioned the days and events related to the adjacent text.Online Since: 2022-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A46 : De religione rauracorum
No full textThis slim manuscript, in a cardboard binding bound in leatherette, contains a text by Father Moreau, De religione rauracorum, as the label on the spine indicates. Marcel Moreau (1735-1804), trained at the Jesuit college of Porrentruy, then entered the Cistercian abbey of Lucelle, wrote several texts on the history of his region, notably a series of six dissertations on Rauracia (A141). Manuscript A46 uses this same literary form to discuss the topic of religion. The main text, written in Latin with some French passages, takes up the left side of each page and is completed on the right side with various notes or bibliographical references. This manuscript is a working copy that the author clearly corrected, deleting words or entire parts, but also by making numerous insertions.Online Since: 2025-12-1
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1450 : J. J. Scheuchzer, Index cod. Msc. S. Gall in Biblioth. Tigur.
No full textPart 1 (pp. 3-35) contains Chronicle notes by the sacristan and pantry assistant Brother Gallus Beerle (1734-1815) for the years 1790-1794 (pantry and cellar) as well as 1804-1809 (sacristan). Part 2 (pp. 1-65), which is important for the history of the Abbey Library, contains the list of St. Gallen manuscripts in the library of Zürich, which was unknown in St. Gall until Abbey Librarian Franz Weidman (1774-1843) made this copy from the list that Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) made in 1713 after the Toggenburg War and the transfer of the holdings to Zürich, and which was supplemented with additions, particularly from Waser’s catalogue (pp. 63-65). Weidman checked the holdings and made a cross next to the manuscripts that he found at St. Gall and thus had been returned. On p. 62 he copied a date: “Z[ürich, 16. Jenner 1841” and the name “J. Horn”, possibly his middleman in Zürich. The manuscript provided the basis for the list of manuscripts presumed to be in Zürich published in Weidman’s printed history of the library (pp. 423-438).Online Since: 2025-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 12 / A124 : History of the old bishopric of Basel up to 1200
No full textA softbound notebook containing notes on the history of the old bishopric of Basel up to 1200, even though a final note referring to 1789 (p. 196) disrupts this chronology. The pages have been pre-printed with a frame and a header containing empty parentheses where the author of these notes manually inserted the page number. The last ten pages are without text (pp. 197-206). On the cover of the notebook appears the name "Delefils Aloys", its probable owner before it entered the collection of the Cantonal School of Porrentruy (p. 1 and on the back of the notebook).Online Since: 2025-04-0
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, K29 : Ketubah (כתובה), Ancona, 14 Tishri 5550 (October 4, 1789)
No full textThis marriage contract was made in one of the most important Jewish communities of Italy, the Adriatic seaport of Ancona, which also was a leading center of ketubbah illustrations. The main episode at top center, depicts the prophet Elijah ascending to heaven, riding in his fiery horse-drawn chariot, while his amazed disciple, Elisha, watches below. This scene thus refers to the first name of the bridegroom, Elijah Mordecai, son of the late Judah mi-Cerrata. The other two biblical episodes appear in the cartouches at the center of each of the side borders. At right, the scene of the Triumph of Mordecai, refers to the second name of the bridegroom, Mordecai. Depicted at left is the scene of David holding the head of Goliath; it is to be understood as a reference to David Camerino, father of the bride Tova, daughter of David, son of Abraham Obedai Camerino of Senigallia.Online Since: 2017-03-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2611 : Catalogus eorum, qui in Templi Societatis Jesu Bruntruti Fidei professionem fecerunt
No full textThis 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).Online Since: 2024-05-3
Genève, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Flore des Dames de Genève, vol. 2 : Flore du Mexique, ou Collection des Plantes rares ou peu connues observées au Mexique et dans la nouvelle Espagne par Messieurs de Sessé, Moçiño et D. Cervantes dessinées dans le pays par Messieurs Echeverria, Cerda, etc. copiées à Genève par une réunion
No full textThis composite manuscript in thirteen volumes consists of drawings of plants which resulted from the Sessé & Moçiño expedition to the region of Mexico and Central America from 1787 to 1803. Of the 1300 drawings contained in these volumes, about 300 are originals from the expedition, the remaining 1000 were copied in Geneva in 1817 by artists and amateur botanists, most of whom were women from Geneva. The entire collection is usually referred to as Flore des Dames de Genève.Online Since: 2019-03-2
Genève, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Flore des Dames de Genève, vol. 13 : Flore du Mexique, ou Collection des Plantes rares ou peu connues observées au Mexique et dans la nouvelle Espagne par Messieurs de Sessé, Moçiño et D. Cervantes dessinées dans le pays par Messieurs Echeverria, Cerda, etc. copiées à Genève par une réunion
No full textThis composite manuscript in thirteen volumes consists of drawings of plants which resulted from the Sessé & Moçiño expedition to the region of Mexico and Central America from 1787 to 1803. Of the 1300 drawings contained in these volumes, about 300 are originals from the expedition, the remaining 1000 were copied in Geneva in 1817 by artists and amateur botanists, most of whom were women from Geneva. The entire collection is usually referred to as Flore des Dames de Genève.Online Since: 2019-03-2