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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 708 : Kedārakalpa
No full textThis is an 18th century manuscript of the text called Kedārakalpa, representing itself as a part of the Nandīpurāṇa. The manuscript describes and depicts in its 61 exquisite miniature paintings a religious pilgrimage in Himalayas, Kedarnath region, as done by a group of yogis. It is a śaiva text, i.e. main deity is god Śiva, and the main purpose of the text is to incite people to go on that sacred śaiva pilgrimage.Online Since: 2017-06-2
Genève, La Bibliothèque juive « Gérard Nordmann », HEB 0002 : Astronomical and geographical work
No full textThis manuscript is a copy of only one of six extant manuscript exemplars and an old print of this work (1743) worldwide. Its author is the famous Bohemian rabbi, astronomer and mathematician R. David ben Salomon Gans (1541-1613). In his 1974 monograph about David Gans, André Neher referred to this copy as the Manuscrit de Genève. A colophon in the manuscript gives the date as 1613, but a current study on the history of the transmission of this work suggests that it is an 18th century copy.Online Since: 2018-06-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2436 : Analysis of the most important legal titles of the states of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel
No full textThis manuscript contains records as well as documents “tirés de l\u27insigne Chapitre de Moutier-Grandval”, collected mainly by J.P. Voirol. These documents concern the rights and duties of citizens towards their ruler.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, S45 : Megillah Esther (מגילת אסתר) / Esther scroll
No full textThe decorative program of this Esther scroll (on 4 sheets with 16 columns of text) was taken from the printed frame design of the Braginsky Megillah S25. The benedictions at the beginning of the scroll are surrounded by figures and episodes of the Esther story: at the top Ahasuerus and Esther on the throne flanked by courtiers; below on the right the conspirators and on the left Haman on the gallows; at the bottom on the right Mordecai in the gate of the palace and on the left Esther and Mordecai writing letters with the orders for the Purim feast. The hexagonal case of chased silver was made in 1806 and belonged to Rabbi Ephraim Fischel of Rozdol in Eastern Galicia.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, Mss 30 : Belli Esperimenti Sopra li Metalli e Minerali Scritti e Mandati Alla Maesta Cesarea del Imperatore Leopoldo Da Giouanni Baptista Coene Di Passauia Pho.
No full textThis paper manuscript, produced around 1700, mentions in its title Emperor Leopold (I, reigned 1658-1705). The identity of Giovanni Baptista Coene from Passau, named as author, remains obscure; no further information is available about him. — The names of metals and other materials that Coene used in experiments are not written out in the text, but are represented by alchemic symbols (planetary signs, etc.). Because these occur in large numbers, the text is not easily readable or understandable. Further evidence that the manuscript is rooted in alchemy comes from the fact that Coene refers to Paracelsus (1493/94-1541), e.g., in the short final chapter with the title “Che cosa il Balsamo Samech di Paracelso” (pp. 101-102). Coene also mentions the “Testamentum” (pp. 99-100) and names Raimundus Lullus (1232/33-1315/16) as its author; today it is considered a pseudo-Llull text. — Within the chapters, individual paragraphs are numbered, but in the last quarter of the manuscript this numbering seems to have been added later (pp. 81-102). At the end of the manuscript, the numbering is incorrect (instead from p. 70ff. it should read correctly p. 97ff.). — The manuscripts was purchased in Italy in 1952.Online Since: 2015-10-0
Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, E.10.00.07 : Chronicles on the Reformation and on the division of the canton
No full textOn 123 paper pages, this codex contains copies of seven chronicles on the Reformation in the region of Appenzell as well as on the division of the canton in the 16th century. The codex was compiled around 1700 by an unknown scribe.Online Since: 2017-06-2
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 704 : Bhagavadgītā and subsidiary texts
No full textThis manuscript comprises a collection of four different texts. The main text is the Bhagavadgītā ("Song of the Lord"), a part of the Mahābhārata
epic, book 6, which consists of 18 chapters, written here in Devanāgarī
in a Kashmiri-influenced style (f. 1v-165r). It is one of the most
copied texts in the Hindu tradition and survives in a huge number of
manuscripts. Painted portraits of Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna alternate in opening
its 18 chapters. The Bhagavadgītā is preceded by the Prayāgatīrthasnānasaṃkalpa, apadoddhāraṇastotra (V2r-V4v),"a promise to take bath at Prayāga (Allahabad)", and followed by the Pañcavaktrahanumatkavaca (N1v-N7v), a protective mantra of Hanuman, and finally the Stavarāja
(N8r-N8v), a "king of praises", serving also as a sort of colophon to
the whole collection of these miscellaneous texts. These three
subsidiary texts are all written in common Devanāgarī script. A partly
readable note dated 29 August 1781 identifies the manuscript as a
“prayer book of a bramin [i.e. brahmin]” given to the unidentified
possessor of the manuscript “on his departure from India” (V1r).Online Since: 2018-03-2
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2409 : Litterae acquisitiones donationes abbatiae Lucellensis ab anno 1260 ad 1373
No full textThis manuscript, also called “Cartulaire de Lucelle no 2”, is the second volume of a collection of documents containing the transcriptions of the titles of goods and temporal privileges of the Abbey of Lucelle. The texts are in Latin and German.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, S36 : Megillah Esther (מגילת אסתר) / Esther scroll
No full textThe printed frame design for this Esther scroll (on four sheets with 15 columns of text) was created by the engraver Paul-Jean Franck, a non-Jewish artist in Prague; it is thus one of the rare examples of this type that does not originate from the two printing centers of Venice or Amsterdam. A total of seven episodes from the Book of Esther are presented in vertical order at the beginning and end of the scroll. At the beginning: Ahasuerus on the throne, while Mordecai and Haman are led past; Mordecai hands Hatach the decree of destruction; the king in the tent. At the end: the celebration of Purim; the accusation of Haman by Esther; Mordecai and the king; Mordecai as he records the establishment of the Purim festival in a letter to the Jews. Above the spiral columns’ capitals, further scenes are represented.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Saint-Imier, Mémoires d\u27Ici, FER 2 : Documents compiled by Pastor Rémy Frêne of Tavannes
No full textThis volume contains copies of various documents, which were meticulously collected by the pastor of Tavannes, Théophile Rémy Frêne (1727-1804), over a period of several decades, but especially in the last third of the 18th century. It thus gathers memories, correspondence, numerous documents and even lists which reveal the pastor’s diverse scholarly activities, especially in the areas of history, geography and politics. The collection allows us to grasp his most personal interests. These writings, organized in thematic series, focus mainly on the Principality of Basel and the region of Neuchâtel. The volume thus would attest an extensive project describing the Principality of Basel, which in the end Frêne did not publish - some of the information the pastor gathered have been included by Charles-Ferdinand Morel in his Abrégé de l’histoire et de la statistique du ci-devant Evêché de Bâle (Strasbourg, 1813). It also reflects the fundamental role that pastors held in the second half of the 18th century as promoters of regional knowledge.Online Since: 2018-12-1