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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1720 : Sacrarium Sancti Galli, Vol. III: consecration of churches, chapels, altars and bells in the territory of the Princely Abbey of Saint Gall
No full textThis volume is written primarily in Latin; in the first part (pp. 1-480) it contains information about the consecration of churches, chapels, altars and bells at St. Gall Abbey and in the territory of the “Alte Landschaft” (a subject territory of St. Gall Abbey) (pp. 1-187), in the Thurgau (pp. 188-263), in the Rhine Valley (pp. 264-309), and in the Toggenburg (pp. 310-457); furthermore about the churches in the urban area of St. Gall, St. Lawrence, St. Mangen and St. Leonard (pp. 475-480). This part was written around 1706 by the St. Gall monk and custos Fr. Gregor Schnyder (1642–1708) and contains numerous additions from the period up to 1788. On an unnumbered leaf before p. 57, there is a pen and wash drawing of the monastery’s tower clock that was completed in 1661. The second part (p. 487-556) is written by the St. Gall monk Chrysostomus Stipplin (1609–1672). It contains a calendar of the feast days of saints for St. Gall Abbey, indicating for each one where the respective celebration is held (pp. 487-501), a list of chapels and altars with the dates of their consecration (pp. 501-502), two lists of altar patronages (pp. 503-506 and 507-509) arranged according to the calendar, an overview of all the altars together with the relics they contained (pp. 509-515), as well as a list of all relics in the monastery and its chapels (pp. 519-556). The first part concludes with a site index (from the time period of the last additions).Online Since: 2018-12-1
Neuchâtel, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel, Ms. A 45 Vol. 2 : Bariller Frédéric, Neuchâtel-Chronicle from 1476-1664
No full textThis manuscript of historical content in French, with some Latin texts, was left to the library in 1822 by the Merveilleux family. It consists of four separate booklets sewn together, of which one is bound in parchment. They are of irregular formats and some pages are cut.Several pages, written in another hand, were integrated into the pagination and were incorporated. The fourth booklet contains a list of coats of arms and emblems with sketches.Online Since: 2016-03-1
Neuchâtel, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel, Ms. A 45 Vol. 1 : Bariller Frédéric, Neuchâtel-Chronicle from 1476-1664
No full textThis manuscript of historical content in French, with some Latin texts, was left to the library in 1822 by the Merveilleux family. It consists of four separate booklets sewn together, of which one is bound in parchment. They are of irregular formats and some pages are cut. Several pages, written in another hand, were integrated into the pagination and were incorporated. The fourth booklet contains a list of coats of arms and emblems with sketches.Online Since: 2016-03-1
Neuchâtel, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel, Ms. A 45 Vol. 3 : Bariller Frédéric, Neuchâtel-Chronicle from 1476-1664
No full textThis manuscript of historical content in French, with some Latin texts, was left to the library in 1822 by the Merveilleux family. It consists of four separate booklets sewn together, of which one is bound in parchment. They are of irregular formats and some pages are cut. Several pages, written in another hand, were integrated into the pagination and were incorporated. The fourth booklet contains a list of coats of arms and emblems with sketches.Online Since: 2016-03-1
Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A2626bis-2 : Diarium Collegii Bruntrutani Soc. Jesu ab anno 1671
No full textDiary with daily notes about life in the Jesuit seminary in Porrentruy between 1671 and 1680.Online Since: 2016-10-1
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B247 : <i>Evronot</i> ("Rules for Calculation of the Calendar")
No full textThis manuscript contains an Evronot ("Rules for Calculation of the Calendar"). Many so-called Sifre evoronot ("Books of calculation") emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries. They can be taken as a reaction to the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582. Such manuscripts often depict the biblical Issachar, one of Jacob’s sons, on or near a ladder; as an attribute, he holds an hourglass in his hand. This manuscript has two such miniatures; above the first of which there is also an illustration of a waning and a waxing moon with a human face and stars. The title page depicts an ornamental architectural arch. At the end of the book, there is the familiar motif of Moses seated at a table holding the Tablets of the Law.Online Since: 2015-03-1
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1311 : The travel diary ("Reisebuch") of Alsatian world traveler Georg Franz Müller
No full textTravel diary ("Reisebuch") of Alsatian world traveler Georg Franz Müller (1646-1723). Müller was employed by the Dutch East India Company between 1669 and 1682 as a soldier in the Indonesian archipelago. In the "Reisebuch" he illustrated people, animals and plants that he encountered during his voyage (via South Africa) to Indonesia and his travels in Indonesia. He also composed simple, sometimes clumsy verses, about all these people, animals and plants, and wrote them out in his idiosyncratic, difficult to read script.Online Since: 2008-12-2
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, K37 : Ketubah (כתובה), Amsterdam, 2 Nisan 5428 (14 March 1668)
No full textThe practice of decorating marriage contracts was revived in early seventeenth-century Amsterdam under the influence of Italian ketubah artists. In the late 1640s, the well-known Jewish engraver Shalom Italia created a copper engraving for ketubot of the Spanish-Portuguese community, which subsequently inspired an anonymous local artist to create a new modified version of this border, present in this Braginsky Collection ketubah of 1668. For more than two hundred years this border adorned Sephardic ketubot produced in Hamburg, Bayonne, London, New York and Curaçao.The calligraphic text commemorates the marriage of a known Sephardic physician, Daniel Tzemah Aboab.Online Since: 2017-03-2
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN II 14 : Liber alumnorum superioris Collegii, volume 2, 1665-1686
No full textThis second volume of the Liber alumnorum of the Basel college in the Augustinergasse contains a list of the students in the residence hall from 1665-1686. In addition to the lists of names, there are also numerous notes regarding the cost of board and lodging or for heating.Online Since: 2016-12-2
Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 3 : Armenian Hymnal- Sharaknots
No full textThis liturgical manuscript (Sharaknots or Sharakan) contains a collection of over a thousand hymns, organized into eight groups, for use in the Armenian Church. Many of these hymns were composed by prominent figures in the Armenian Church, while others are early translations from sacred hymns of the early Christian Church. The texts include Armenian khaz notation. This manuscript was written by the scribe Simeon in the year 1662 in the city of Brnakot, in the province of Siounik, an important center for liturgical manuscript production in southern Armenia. The book decoration consists of 8 headpieces, 120 ornamental and zoomorphic initials, and numerous simple red initials. The manuscript features its original Moroccan limp vellum binding with blind tooling.Online Since: 2012-07-0