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The volume is composed of three originally separate parts that were copied in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth century. From their various provenances, they came to the Basel Charterhouse and were bound together. The volume contains allegorical expositions of the Old and New Testament, theological texts, poems, sermons, as well as a work on agriculture by Palladius, complemented with glosses, recipes, and additional information.
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This manuscript contains a collection of writings on the Schism and belongs to the oldest collection of the Basel Charterhouse. The four codicological units were produced in the fourteenth and early fifteenth century, probably in part in the Low-German linguistic region. Three of the units likely passed through Winand Steinbeck of Dortmund, the first prior of the Basel Charterhouse. The fourth unit in the composite manuscript contains notes by Johannes Dotzheim, the second prior of the Basel Charterhouse. The codex was first bound in Basel and, in the sixteenth century, was used by Bonifacius Amerbach.
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This twelfth-century manuscript of the Septuagint contains the Book of Job and the Sapiential Books. The margins contain liturgical notes on reading the writings during the office. The text of Job is also accompanied by excerpts from the catena of Nicetas of Heraclea. In one of the margins appears a drawing of the face of Christ or of a saint. John of Ragusa, the envoy of the Council of Basel, purchased this manuscript in Constantinople between 1435 and 1437, and bequeathed it after his death in 1443 to the Dominican convent in Basel. In 1559 it was transferred from there to the library of the University of Basel.
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The front part of this parchment manuscript was written in the thirteenth century; the back part (from p. CLI) and the index at the front were written in the fifteenth century. In addition to authentic and pseudoepigraphical texts of Bernard of Clairvaux, the codex contains the Stimulus amoris. The older part is decorated with numerous, precisely painted initials with simple ornamentation. In the fifteenth century, the volume belonged to the Basel Charterhouse, when the ownership marks were partially written on top of older, erased entries.
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This very extensive codex with the acts of beginning of the Council of Basel (i.e., the years 1431-1435) was written in large part by two hands. One of the hands has been identified as being of Francesco della Croce (1391-1479), who was an envoy from Milan to the Basel Council, and who, among other things, had participated in writing the Council manuscript E I 8. The volume belonged to the Basel Charterhouse and probably in 1590 was transferred to the University Library along with the rest of the convent’s collection.
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The manuscript contains various Aristotelian texts, including works by Aristotle as well as commentaries on his texts. The volume came very early in the history of the University Library from the estate of the Basel Professor of Theology Johannes Syber de Wangen (d. 1502). It is still conserved in its original binding, which probably dates from the fourteenth century and was originally a chained volume.
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This manuscript, transferred from the Dominican Convent of Basel to the University Library in 1559, was put together from three parts by a learned Dominican friar, Berthold von Moosburg. In his hand are also glosses on Macrobius’ commentary on Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, which have recently attracted interest, as well as some additions: recipes against kidney stones and epilepsy, as well as a fragment of a text by Dietrich of Freiberg. Otherwise, the manuscript mainly contains texts by Proclus in Latin, thus a book for Neoplatonists.
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This manuscript, which was produced in the second half of the twelfth century, contains a collection of theological texts, commentaries, and poems, that are connected to the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite as well as other important Christian authors of the Middle Ages, and treats various aspects of the celestial hierarchy, divine illumination, and theological reflection. The volume came to the University Library from the Museum Remigius Faesch and was bound in 1910 at the earliest.
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This manuscript contains a Jacobite (syro-orthodox) Rite lectionary, which is missing its beginning and presents several internal lacunae (f. 8v, 14v, and 96v). It ends with a rubricated explicit arranged in an inverted pyramid, without indication of place, date, or the name of the copyist (f. 102v). The leaves that follow (ff. 103r-105v), written in a second, contemporary hand, include rituals, such as the office of the blessing of the water that is held on the vigil of Epiphany (f. 103r-v). It dates from the end of the twelfth or the thirteenth century (cf. W.H.P. Hatch, An Album of Dated Syriac Manuscripts, Boston, 1946, pl. LXXXVIII-XC; written communication from Paul Géhin and Bernard Outtier) and was copied in two columns in Estrangelo, the ancient and classical Syriac script. The gatherings – quinions – are numbered in the middle of the bottom margin, on the recto of the first and on the verso of the last leaf of the gathering (for example, the sixth gathering, numbered ܘ, begins on folio 48r and ends on folio 57v). In keeping with a common practice in the Syriac tradition, the verso of each folio is marked with four dots arranged in a lozenge and aligned with the first line of text. In addition to rubrics, column-sized ornamental bands of interlace structure the text (f. 3r, 29r, 45v, 66r, 75r, 81v, 84r, 95r).
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A softbound notebook containing notes on the history of the old bishopric of Basel up to 1200, even though a final note referring to 1789 (p. 196) disrupts this chronology. The pages have been pre-printed with a frame and a header containing empty parentheses where the author of these notes manually inserted the page number. The last ten pages are without text (pp. 197-206). On the cover of the notebook appears the name "Delefils Aloys", its probable owner before it entered the collection of the Cantonal School of Porrentruy (p. 1 and on the back of the notebook).
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A thin cardboard notebook of Louis Vautrey (1829-1886), historian and priest of the Jura region, on the region of Porrentruy, concerning the years 1815 to 1845.
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A cardboard notebook of Louis Vautrey (1829-1886), historian and priest of the Jura region, on the bishopric of Basel. The last gathering has been bound upside-down and contains the songs “Plaintes d’un mari à sa femme” (pp. 78-79) and “Les demoiselles de Porrentruy” (p. 80).
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A notebook of the Jura historian and priest Louis Vautrey (1829-1886) whose initials are stamped in red ink on the title page (p. 1). These are reading notes (sometimes with a reference to the titles and page numbers of the works consulted), as well as transcriptions, e.g., of songs like “Le retour du proscrit” (pp. 7-8). The last gathering has been copied upside-down (pp. 112-120).
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This 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.
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Antoine 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).
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Antoine 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).
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Antoine 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.
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Antoine 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.
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Antoine 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'Histoire de l'ancien 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).
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This notebook contains the description of the Château de Porrentruy (pp. 7-49 – with an addition on pp. 33-34). The text is signed with the initials A.B. (p. 49) for Antoine Biétrix, who is also the author of the two folded plates inserted at the end of the book. The first plate depicts the Château de Porrentruy in the seventeenth century, surrounded by its outbuildings (postern, barracks, treasury, old kitchen, etc.) and is drawn in ink, signed A. Biétrix and dated to 1887 (p. 51). The second shows the floor plan and interior layout of the castle, floor by floor (p. 53).
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