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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, R-49.2 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mémoire présenté à M. de Mably sur l’éducation de M. son fils
No full textThe Mémoire présenté à M. de Mably sur l’éducation de M. son fils is Rousseau’s first writing related to his experience as an educator. In 1740 he took up a difficult position as tutor in the family of the notable Jean Bonnot de Mably, provost general of police in the Lyon region. This position came to an end after only one year. Two young children with little inclination to study had been entrusted to his care: François-Paul-Marie Bonnot de Mably, called Monsieur de Sainte-Marie, five and a half years old, and Jean-Antoine Bonnot de Mably, called Monsieur de Condillac, four and a half years old. The long Mémoire, dedicated to the older boy, emphasizes the “educational mission” and experience with practical education: it is presented as a plan and a synthesis; its writing has been dated around December 1740. The young tutor addresses M. de Mably and makes known to him the plan and structure for the education of his son in order to shape “the heart, the judgment and the spirit.” This is not the natural education, which later on will be advocated in ’Émile. Did Rousseau really present this Mémoire to M. de Mably? Known is only that he gave this manuscript of the Mémoire to Mme Dupin, his employer in 1743, and that since then it has been kept with the “Papers of Mme Dupin.” It was published for the first time in Paris in 1884 by G. de Villeneuve-Guibert in Le portefeuille de Madame Dupin. The Fondation Bodmer’s manuscript is the only one in existence. A Projet d’éducation, much shorter, more clearly structured and of unknown date, was found among Rousseau’s papers at the time of his death (this manuscript, now lost, was first published in Geneva in 1782). It is very similar to the Mémoire and seems to have been writtenOnline Since: 2016-06-2
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1480 : Festschrift for the name day of Abbot Joseph von Rudolphi
No full textThis Festschrift for St. Gall Abbott Joseph von Rudolphi (1666-1740, Abbot 1717-1740) is titled Novus Hercules in divi Galli requie exsuscitatus. It was presented to the abbott in 1739 on the occasion of his name day by the students of the monastery school (Musae Sangallenses). Based on the twelve labors of Hercules, the text praises twelve extraordinary achievements of the monastery in the twelve centuries of its existence. For each century, a two-page Historia presents background, followed by an emblematic representation and a two-page Elogium that refers to the emblem. Three poems praising the abbot in Latin, Greek and Hebrew conclude the work.Online Since: 2018-10-0
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B317 : Passover Haggadah with commentaries (Braginsky Leipnik Haggadah)
No full textUntil the Braginsky Leipnik Haggadah was acquired for the Braginsky Collection in 2007, this Haggadah was not known in scholarly literature. It was illustrated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in 1739. Like most of the Haggadot at that time, this exemplar is largely dependent on the copper engravings of the printed Amsterdam Haggadot of 1695 and 1712. The characteristics of Joseph ben David’s illustrations, whose work is well-known, are rendered here in an exemplary manner. The color palette is dominated by subtle gradations of color and shades of pastel. Frequently recurring motifs in his Haggadot, based on older models, are the illustrations of the Paschal lamb, the matzah and the bitter herbs. Eating these is part of the feast of Passover, during which it is tradition to read the Haggadah together.Online Since: 2015-03-1
Wattwil, Kloster Maria der Engel Wattwil, Ms. 1 : Pharmacopoeia
No full textCollection of recipes for preparing medicines. The form in which the recipes are presented ranges from a list of ingredients to more or less detailed texts including information about the preparation as well as the use of the medication. In the index, the recipes are divided into 10 chapters according to dosage form (pp. 456-479). At the end of each chapter there are several pages that have been left blank for additional recipes. The manuscript, which was created in 1739, is from the pharmacy of the former Capuchin Convent of Wattwil. It contains numerous 18th century additions in various hands. Since the dissolution of the Capuchin Convent St. Mary of the Angels of Wattwil in 2010, the manuscript, as part of the convent pharmacy, belongs to the Foundation Kloster Maria der Engel Wattwil.Online Since: 2019-06-1
Luzern, Staatsarchiv, COD 1075 : Copy in calligraphy of the Sworn Letter of Lucerne (“Geschworener Brief”)
No full textThe Sworn Letter (“Geschworener Brief”), drawn up for the first time in 1252, consists mainly of provisions of criminal law for the sake of maintaining internal peace. It soon attained the status of a social contract that was periodically revised, and the town assembly was sworn into office each year with an oath on this document. COD 1075 presents the last version in a special form: The text was elaborately arranged in calligraphy by chancery clerk Josef Corneli Mahler; the articles are introduced by artistic initials and are accompanied by figures (which bear no reference to the themes of the text). For the binding, the wooden boards are covered in blue and white velvet and have protective book corners, clasps and bosses made of silver.Online Since: 2017-03-2
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1276 : Illustrations of the coats of arms of those killed in the Battle of Sempach on the side of the Austrian Habsburgs; painting of the Battle of Sempach 1386
No full textThis manuscript, with an imposing binding, bears the title “Schlacht-, Nammen-, Schilt- und Waappen-Buoch von denen noch bewusten Graffen, Freyen, Edlen, Ritter und Knechten, welche mit Hertzog Leopoldo II. von Oesterreich auff St. Cirilli den 9.ten Tag Iulij 1386 vor Sempach umbgekommen und erschlagen worden” (Book of the battle, name, escutcheon and coat of arms for the known counts, freemen, nobles, knights and soldiers who perished or were slain along with Leopold II, Duke of Austria on St. Cyril, the 9th day of July 1386 at Sempach). Joseph von Rudolphi (1717−1740), abbot of St. Gall, commissioned this copy in 1738, because, after studying the Chronicon Helveticum, the great historical work by the scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505−1572) of Glarus, and a copy thereof that he had arranged to have made for his monastery shortly before from the exemplar at Schloss Gräpplang near Flums (Cod. Sang. 1213−1220), he had found certain discrepancies with an older copy of the “Wappenbuch von Sempach”. A colorful painting of the battle has survived as a sort of frontispiece on a parchment bifolio (pp. 6−7); it is similar to the painting in the Schlachtkapelle (“battle chapel”) of Sempach and, according to Franz Weidmann’s manuscript catalog (Cod. Sang. 1405, p. 2002), it was “von einem gar alten Kupferstich getreülich abgemalet worden” (faithfully copied from a quite old copperplate print). Apparently Joseph Leodegar Bartholomäus Tschudi (1708−1772), a descendant of Aegidius Tschudi, is responsible for the book decoration (p. V1). After extensive introductory comments, the volume’s rich ornamentation with the coats of arms begins with a portrait of Duke Leopold III (p. 34).Online Since: 2017-06-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A1340 : Rauracia vastata sive epitome rerum in episcopatu Basilieensi locisque vicinis ab anno 1623 usque ad 1638 gestarum …
No full textThe title page of this manuscript (p. V3), mimicking the appearance of printed works, provides, in addition to the title of the work, the names of the dedicatee, Bishop Jacques Sigismond de Reinach-Steinbrunn (1737-1743), and of the copyist, Jean-Baptiste Grillon, the place it was copied, Saint-Ursanne, and its date, 1738. The text, ascribed by a later hand to Père Sudan, appears in two manuscripts produced in the previous century (A1399 and A1399a) and treats the history of the bishopric of Basel between 1623 and 1638. Before the text properly speaking appears the dedication to the bishop, dated and signed by Grillon (pp. V7-V12), as well as a full page decorated with a wash drawing of the episcopal coat of arms of Jacques Sigismond de Reinach-Steinbrunn (p. V5), reproduced in the armorials of the ancient bishopric of Basel (N.C.6, f. 16 and A3754, f. 15). A long index rerum (pp. N1-N37) finishes the manuscript.Online Since: 2025-12-1
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, S2 : <i>Megillat</i> Esther (מגילת אסתר) / Esther Scroll
No full textThis mid-eighteen century Italian Esther scroll was most likely printed and hand-colored in Venice. It is kept in a cylindrical case of delicate filigree, ornamented with floral motifs, that is typical of the later and more refined work of Ioannite silversmiths.Online Since: 2016-12-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2048 : Registre du renouvellement des vœux des Abbé(s) et chanoines du monastère de Bellelay
No full textPaper volume containing the renewals of vows of the canons and abbots of the Premonstratensian Bellelay Abbey between 1735 and 1797.Online Since: 2018-12-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2500 : Alphabetical overview of the rights and privileges of the Moutier-Grandval Chapter
No full textThis document lists the rules that govern the relationship between the Diocese of Basel and the Chapter of Moutier-Grandval, with regard to, for example, watercourses, hunting, forests, tributes, borders, minerals, etc., as well as the characteristics of each local community of the Chapter, for the period between 1462 and 1731.Online Since: 2020-10-0