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Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, LAAI, C.XI.01 : Älteres Landbuch
No full textThe volume contains in its main section on parchment (pp. 47-108) the statutes of the country of Appenzell, whose origins go back to the beginning of the fifteenth century. The volume also has a calendar on paper (pp. 5-19) as well as additions to the statutes, also on paper (pp. 111ff. and p. 124). The first 24 pages of the statutes are written in a single hand, with additions, marginal notes, and titles written in other hands; thereafter, further entries in different ink and in a denser script come from the 1530s and 40s. The initials are calligraphically decorated, sometimes adorned with braided lace, flowers, and faces that often end in corncob-shaped forms.Online Since: 2024-05-3
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 596 : Anonymum Byzantinum chronicon
No full textA manuscript containing the Byzantine chronicle in modern Greek, generally known as the Anonymum Byzantinum chronicon, still unedited. At the end of the 19th century Karl Praechter (1858-1933), an instructor and later, from 1889 to 1907, a professor at the University of Berne, used this manuscript to retrieve the Chronicle from its previously shadowy existence.Online Since: 2010-08-1
Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, LAAI, C.II.07 : Book of accounts 1540-1544
No full textOn 300 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from February 1540 to February 1544. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided region.Online Since: 2022-12-1
Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, LAAI, C.V.01 : Minutes of the Council and <i>Gassengericht</i>
No full textThis 198-page paper volume contains chiefly declarations, that is, transcriptions of witness statements. In addition, it includes judgments, decisions of the Council and the Landsgemeinde, sureties, renunciatory oaths, registers of judges, and agendas of the councils and the Landsgemeinde.Online Since: 2024-05-3
Genève, Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l\u27étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance, SIME 2 : Gabriele Simeoni and Giovan Battista Strozzi, collection of poems
No full textComposite manuscript with the following content: 1. collection of autographs by the Florentine poet Gabriele Simeoni (Florence, 1509 - Lyon, 1577?), dedicated to Cosimo de\u27 Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, with poems in Italian and Latin and illustrated by the author; 2. collection of poems, partly autographs, by Giovan Battista Strozzi (1489-1538), containing his madrigals as well as some compositions by Leonardo Giustiniani (1388-1446) and by Anton Francesco Grazzini (1505-1584).Online Since: 2019-12-1
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 756.66 : Manuscript waste from Cod. 120
No full textThese three documents are from the previous binding of Cod. 120 (now 120-1 and 120-2), from which they were removed during restoration. They are two documents from the imperial court of the tribunal of the Counts of Sulz in Rottweil (no. 1 and 3) and a fragment of a bill of sale issued in Strasbourg.Online Since: 2018-03-2
Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 516 : Graduale Romanum ad usum fratrum Eremitarum S. Augustini. Sanctorale
No full textA fragmentary gradual for the friars of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Haugustine, copied in 1539 by Jacobus Frank, who is depicted in the bottom margin of 51r. It contains many illuminations with coats-of-arms, mottos and monograms written by different hands from 1538 to 1594. Some of the illuminations have been excised and in some cases then glued back in the codex.Online Since: 2011-10-0
Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 296 : In Henrici Glareani poetae laureati geographiam annotationes
No full textJohannes Aal (ca. 1500-1551), an erudite humanist, provost and dramatist, was a leading figure in the cultural life of Solothurn. During his studies in Freiburg im Breisgau, his teacher, the universal scholar Heinrich Loriti (Glarean, 1488-1563) on 17 May 1537 dictated him these comments on his De geographia liber.Online Since: 2015-06-2
Appenzell, Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, LAAI, C.II.06 : Book of accounts 1537-1540
No full textOn 220 paper pages, this volume contains the income and expenditures of the territory of Appenzell from May 1537 to May 1540. These accounts are among the most important sources for researching the history of the yet undivided area.Online Since: 2020-10-0
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 167 : Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Kabbalah, dedicated to King Francis I
No full textThis parchment manuscript contains the mystic text of the Kabbala in cursive script, illustrated with numerous highly colorful drawings with allegorical, cosmological, and liturgical themes.Online Since: 2008-12-0