Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 165, f. 4r – Pierre le Fruitier, called Salmon, Traictés de Pierre Salemon a Charles VI roy de France [Dialogues, second version]

This new update makes public a total of 31 manuscripts ranging from the 9th to the 18th centuries. The manuscripts come from seven different libraries; among them are six manuscripts from the Bibliothèque de Genève as well as two ‘Bürgerbücher’ (Registers of Citizens) from the state archives of Fribourg. These latter two volumes cover the time period from 1341 to 1769 and show the development of the citizenry of Fribourg.
Eight new descriptions were prepared for e-codices; thus the number of new, previously unpublished descriptions, prepared mainly for e-codices, has grown to 262 descriptions by 60 different authors.

Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, P 13 fol.:4, f. 372r – C. de Bridia, Historia Tartarorum

The Lucerne Central and University Library’s copy of Vincent of Beauvais’ Historiale comes from St. Urban's Abbey and is divided into four volumes; volumes 1, 3 and 4 have been preserved while volume 2 was destroyed in the fire of 1513. This copy was apparently created in Basel around 1338-1340; near the end, in quire 32 (ff. 372-378) it contains a copy of the Historia Tartarorum (Tartar Relation) by the Franciscan C. de Bridia, a work of which only two copies survive. The only other copy is held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University; it is of great interest to scholars mainly because it contains the text of the Tartar Relation together with the so-called „Vinland Map,“ a map of the world with supposedly the first cartographic sketch of a part of the American continent (The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, by R.A. Skelton, T.E. Marston and G.D. Painter for the Yale University Library, New Haven 1965) and with a fragment of the Historiale (Books 21-24). If this map of the world (which is not extant in the Lucerne manuscript) is not a forgery, then the world map with Vinland (as islands discovered by the Vikings were called by Adam of Bremen in the 11th century already) must have been created before the middle of the 15th century. The relation between the Historia Tartarorum, the Historiale and perhaps even the controversial Vinland map can now be further studied by reference to the Lucerne manuscript.

The web application ecod 2.0, which we have been developing together with the company text & bytes since January 2013, will go online with the December update. Currently it is being tested in order to ensure that the new application can take over all previous features and that the many newly introduced features work well. For this new application, we not only completely redesigned the back end, but we also developed several innovations for the front end. Among many new functions, the application will contain a new viewer. We redesigned the navigation, which now allows for a simpler and more intuitive study of manuscripts. We improved the display on mobile devices (currently about 10% of users). We enhanced the search functions and revised the annotation tool. The data model and the image API for the new application are set up so that e-codices will allow extensive interoperability, for example for web services.

Finally e-codices has a logo! The logo consists of the initial "e" encircled by two rings with vinescroll. The designer deliberately avoided using any specific medieval or modern manuscript initial as a source of inspiration. The logo will be integrated in the new web application in late December.