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Genève, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Flore des Dames de Genève, vol. 11 : 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
Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13 : Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia principio, e termine della Campana di S. Pietro, fusa dal Cavalier Luigi Valadier, e Giuseppe di lui figlio nell\u27anno 1786 – per ordine di N. S. PP. Pio Sesto […]
No full textIn this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) describes the casting of the Campanone, the largest bell in St. Peter\u27s Basilica, in a text featuring 14 watercolored pen and ink drawings. The Vatican had commissioned the bell from the foundry of his father, Luigi Valadier, who passed away in 1785, before the work on the bell was completed. The son Giuseppe completed the commission and in 1786 prepared a manuscript about this work, pairing each drawing with a written explanation in the form of a legend. First Valadier shows the foundry building (2v-7r); then, in an almost photographic wealth of detail and in vivid colors, he shows the process of producing the bell including the technique of the false bell and the casting in bronze (8v-21r). Finally the finished bell (22v-23r) is transported through the streets of Rome on a wooden sled (24v-25r) and is blessed by Pope Pius VI (26v-27r). – The manuscript was purchased in Bern in 1948.Online Since: 2015-10-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2437 : Indictment by the Collegiate Church of Moutier-Grandval to the Public Prosecutor
No full textIndictment by the ecclesiastical body of Moutier-Grandval Abbey to the Prince-Bishop of Basel against persons of public life in order to recover goods stolen from the abbey over time: “Mémoire pour l\u27Eglise Collégiale de Moutier Grandval contre Monsieur le Procureur général de la Chambre des finances de Sa Rev. Illustr. Monseigneur le Prince Evêque de Bâle prince du Saint Empire, servant de réponse à son plaidoyer fait le 19 décembre 1785 pardevant le Conseil aulique dudit Prince Evêque”. The indictment was written by Jean-Germain Fidèle Bajol, canon of the Chapter of Moutier-Grandval (V5).Online Since: 2020-10-0
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1722 : Sacrarium Sancti Galli, Vol. V: De sacra Suppellectili et alia (“Über die heiligen Geräte“)
No full textThis collection of papers was compiled in 1785 by the custos of St. Gall Abbey, P. Ambrosius Epp (1572–1817). In several parts, it contains drawings, descriptions and inventories of part of the treasury of St. Gall Abbey (the so-called sacred liturgical objects), as well as documents related to them. Part 1 (pp. 1–157) includes pen and ink drawings of chalices, cruets, platters, coats of arms, candlesticks etc., also drawings of 4 altars. Part 2 (fol. 1–240, with an index on p. 161-166 of part 1) contains inventories of church treasure from the 17th and 18th century. Several inventories are undated, others are dated (to 1665, 1691, 1712, 1720, 1723, 1739 and 1781). Part 3 (fol. 1–104, with an index on fol. 242–244 of part 2) is a collection of documents regarding the earlier-mentioned objects — invoices, letters, diary entries, etc., mostly in chronological order. Part 4 (pp. 1–67 and fol. 68–95, with an index on fol. 107–110 of part 3) are handwritten and printed privileges and indulgences.Online Since: 2018-03-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2055 : Grégoire Voirol, Bellelay Theology
No full textThis work has the title Théologie de Bellelay written on a piece of paper that is glued to the page containing the original Latin title: “Cursus logica compendiarius data collegio Bellagensi S.R.S. Gregorio Voirol professore anno supra millegissimum septingentesimum octogesimo quinto“. It is the notebook of a student, L’Hoste (p. 131), who followed a shortened course in logic by Abbot Grégoire Voirol (1751-1827), probably when the latter taught at the Premonstratensian Bellelay Abbey.Online Since: 2018-06-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 4-2 : Excerpts from the Annals of the Collège de Porrentruy
No full textThis paper manuscript contains the conclusion of the “Extraits des annales du Collège de Porrentruy” (MP 4-1). It begins in 1662 and ends in 1762, somewhat before what was announced (1771) on the title page of the first volume (MP 4-1, p. 1).Online Since: 2022-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 4-1 : Excerpts from the Annals of the Collège de Porrentruy
No full textThis volume contains “année après année tout ce qui s’est passé de remarquable dans cet établissement [the Collège de Porrentruy] depuis 1588 à 1771” (p. 1). So reads the title page of this paper manuscript, which moreover provides information on its provenance. Property of the Jesuit priest Voisard (1749-1818), at his death the manuscript was bequeathed to Henri Joliat (1803-1859), who deposited it in 1856 in the library of the Collège de Porrentruy. The text begins in 1588 with the establishment of the Collège directed by the Jesuits; this volume concludes in 1661. The years that follow are treated in a second volume, MP 4-2. These excerpts from the annals are probably the French translation and summary of the volume in Latin in the Jura Cantonal Library (A2597).Online Since: 2022-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2408 : List of rights and claims as well as the responsibilities of the Abbey of Lucelle
No full textThis list was drawn up by Jean-Baptiste Etienne (N5-N6), director of the archives, to give the abbey an overview of its assets and its duties. It begins with a summary of the founding of the abbey. Ex-libris on the title page: “J. Baptiste Estienne, profès en l\u27Abbaye de Lucelle, directeur des archives”.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2407 : Repertorium documentorum abbatiae Lucellensis
No full textList of the “titres d\u27acquisitions, les permutations, obligations, sentences, transactions, jugemens [sic] compromissorials [sic], lettres de fiefs, d\u27admoniations, etc.” (p. 1), found in the archives of the Abbey of Lucelle, followed by a place index at the end of the manuscript (N32-N36). Ex-libris on the title page: “Par moi Jean Baptiste Etienne, archiviste”.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 10 / A3269 : Abrégé de l’histoire des évêques de Basle depuis l’établissement de l’Evêché jusqu’à nos jours composé par le P. Voisard 1781
No full textAccording to the preface (pp. 5-8), the Jesuit François-Humbert Voisard (1749-1818) wrote the Abrégé as the first history in French of the bishops of Basel and dedicated it to his students. Entirely focused on the ecclesiastical history of Basel and Porrentruy, the text’s structure reveals its pedagogic nature: a short question introduces each chapter, and the text that immediately follows provides a more or less lengthy reply to the question. According to Gustave Amweg’s Bibliographie du Jura bernois, Voisard’s Abrégé survives in five copies and has not been published to this day. This manuscript has been corrected, annotated, and ends with an index of the bishops and the clerical institutions of the Basel episcopacy (pp. 459-460). Ownership notes inscribed on the front pastedown document its provenance: “Ce livre appartient à Henri Joliat, étudiant en rhétorique. Porrentruy, le 3 mai 1819 / Et / Schwartzlin Père / et /à l’abbé Vautrey à qui il a été remis par M. l’abbé Marquis en 1813”.Online Since: 2022-12-1