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Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 34-1 / A203-1 : Antoine Biétrix, Matériaux pour servir à l\u27histoire de la féodalité dans l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle, t. 1
No full textAntoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The first volume deals with Ajoie (table of contents, pp. 605-607). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. Two genealogical trees have been inserted, drawn on fold-out sheets (p. 111: Asuel family (French)/Hasenburg (German); 131: the Boncourt family), along with two black-ink drawings of castles (p. 301: the ruins of the Château de Roche d’Or and p. 501: Château de Châtel-Vouhay). This last plate is signed by the author of the manuscript, “A. Biétrix, archéologue”, who cites his source at the beginning of the book: Les monuments de l’histoire de l’ancien Evêché de Bâle by Joseph Trouillat (p. 25).Online Since: 2025-04-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, N.C.6 : Armorial of the old bishopric of Basel
No full textThis volume is the result of an organized selection of material gathered in the previous version (A3754). It consists of coats of arms, mostly carefully painted directly in the volume or glued in, supplemented by reproductions obtained through different procedures (photographs, lithographs, rubbings…), and even some originals (signatures). The armorial was originally conceived to be divided into several books: bishops (2r-29v), states (30r-35v), the feudal nobility (from f. 36r). Starting with f. 103r, however, the coherence begins to dissolve with the addition of coats of arms of bourgeois families of Delémont, then religious coats of arms connected to the abbey of Bellelay (117r-122v) and Lucelle (123r-127v). From f. 134r, the armorial concerns seals: bishops (134r-143v), clerics (144r-146v), towns and seigneuries (148r-151v and 155r), and nobility (152r-154v), to which are added coins and medals (156r-157v). The volume ends with a series of notes (162r-198v), including comments on the documents reproduced in the preceding sections.Online Since: 2023-09-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 34-2 / A203-2 : Antoine Biétrix, Matériaux pour servir à l\u27histoire de la féodalité dans l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle, t. 2
No full textAntoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The second volume concerns the valleys of the Doubs, of Laufon, and of Delémont (table of contents, pp. 453-456). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated. Three watercolors on fold-out sheets depict the “Ruins of the Château de Montjoie, South-west” (p. 56), the “Ruins of the Château de Montjoie, South-east” (p. 71), and the “Ruins of the Château de la Roche”, (p. 77).Online Since: 2025-04-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 34-4 / A203-4 : Antoine Biétrix, Matériaux pour servir à l\u27histoire de la féodalité dans l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle, t. 4
No full textAntoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The fourth volume concerns the “lands outside the limits of the old bishopric of Basel” (table of contents, pp. 303-305). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated.Online Since: 2025-04-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 42 / A6054 : Lai latre de Bonfô, qui contient les plus belles hichetoires…
No full textThis autograph by Antoine Biétrix contains anecdotes in patois which he collected and wrote down himself. The short stories give the people of Bonfol a terrible reputation. Even if the stories don’t concern the people of Bonfol directly, they are attributed to them, undoubtedly because the name of the village lends itself to such.Online Since: 2016-06-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 34-3 / A203-3 : Antoine Biétrix, Matériaux pour servir à l\u27histoire de la féodalité dans l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle, t. 3
No full textAntoine Biétrix (1817-1904) gathered material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel in five volumes that, except for the last, all contain descriptions of families, of castles, and of coats of arms. The third volume concerns the valley of Orval de Tavannes, the Val de Moutier, the Seigneury of Erguel, Bienne, and the Basel nobility (table of contents, pp. 377-381). Most often introduced with coats of arms, painted or not, each seigneurial family or village is historically situated.Online Since: 2025-04-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 34-5 / A203-5 : Antoine Biétrix, Matériaux pour servir à l\u27histoire de la féodalité dans l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle, t. 5
No full textAntoine Biétrix (1817-1904) collected five volumes of material for the feudal history of the old bishopric of Basel. The final volume is a copy of the tables of contents of the five volumes of Joseph Trouillat’s Monuments de l\u27Histoire de l\u27ancien évêché de Bâle (1852-1861). Some texts have been interspersed between the various tables, including a list of historical notes on castles (p. 161), notes on coins (pp. 162-163), notes on destroyed castles (pp. 165-167), and a note on the seigneury of Sierentz (pp. 169-175).Online Since: 2025-04-0
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, K63 : Ketubah (כתובה), Gibraltar, 8th Shevat 5640 (21 January 1880)
No full textThe Jewish community on the ‘British Rock of Gibraltar’ reached its height in the 19th century. At the time this marriage contract (ketubbah) was produced, most of Gibraltar’s retail trade was conducted by the local Sephardic community. By the second half of the 19th century, Gibraltar developed its own characteristic type of marriage contract decoration, with large pieces of parchment ornamented in bright colors. The present ketubbah, of which an identical but later copy is preserved at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (accession n. B72.1066 179/244H, see Sh. Sabar, Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1993), is framed on either side by garlands of flowers, a luxurious red bow at the bottom and surmounted by a crown, which is reminiscent of the Torah crown, however modeled here on the British royal crown. Three other typical motifs of these Gibraltar ketubbot are the initial word of the traditional Jewish wedding day in Gibraltar, Wednesday (ברביעי), enlarged in gold lettering; the sum of the dowry and increment is a factor of eighteen, a number that is also the propitious word ‘Ḥai’ (חי) – ‘life’, written here in monumental letters sticking out of the small cursive script and lastly, the ornamental monogram in Latin letters at bottom center, which is comprised here of E C B, referring to the bridal couple’s first (Elido and Jimol) and last initials (Ben Atar/ Benatar). Elido (אלידו), son of Isaiah, son of the late Ḥaim, called Ben Atar (בן עתר) is marrying the bride Jimol (ג\u27ימול), daughter of Joseph, son of the late David, called Qazes (קאזיס), whose dowry is 600 Pesos Fuertes (פיזוס פואירטיס) worth of clothing, jewelry and bed linen and incremented by 600 Pesos Fuertes as a gift, to which is added a piece of land measuring 400 cubits and an additional 600 Pesos Fuertes; the total obligation is 1800 Pesos Fuertes.Online Since: 2020-06-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 33 / A2730 : François-Humbert Voisard, Journal du R.P. Voisard, de la Cie de Jésus, professeur à Porrentruy de 1762 à 1793
No full textThis thin paper notebook contains the Journal du Père Voisard. François-Humbert Voisard (Porrentruy, 1749–1818) was a Jesuit from 1765. From 1773, he taught at the collège de Porrentruy, where he resided, until the creation of the department of Mont-Terrible in 1793, which resulted in his departure for Solothurn. His Journal recounts the years that preceded his departure, between 1762 and 1793. Inserted into the chronological sequence can be found an extract containing questions and responses destined for the Abrégé de l’histoire des évêques de Bâle (pp. 8-11), and a report on the year 1791 (pp. 28-30). In the Bibliographie du Jura bernois, Gustave Amweg states: « Copie appartenant à M. le Doyen E[ugène] Folletête, à Porrentruy, faite par son père M. Casimir Folletête » (A copy belonging to Dean Eugène Folletête, in Porrentruy, made by his father Casimir Folletête). The manuscript was edited in: Porrentruy épiscopale et révolutionnaire : journal du R.P.J. Voisard 1762-1793, edited and annotated by Philippe Froidevaux and André Bandelier, Porrentruy: Ed. des Malvoisins, 2007.Online Since: 2025-04-0
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A3754 : Armorial of the old bishopric of Basel
No full textLouis Philippe, a painter and upholsterer in Delémont, produced two versions of the same project for an Armorial de l’ancien évêché de Bâle, both of which are preserved in the Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, namely this one here and a second, later armorial (N.C.6). In both cases, the volume is primarily composed of coats of arms painted by the author. This copy was originally supposed to be divided into large books, the first three of which were to have been dedicated to bishops, to states, and to the feudal nobility. In any case, the volume quickly loses its coherence with the passing of the pages and the additions of coats of arms, most of which are glued by the author according to the sources to which he has access (see f. 176v) and to the space available. He also inserted photographs, rubbings, and even signatures and original seals taken from archival or printed documents. Clearly, the composite appearance of the collection led Philippe to prepare a second, more coherent, collection (N.C.6).Online Since: 2023-09-0