«E-CODICES»: 62 NEW MANUSCRIPTS AND 3 NEW LIBRARIES

With this fourth and last update of the year, «e-codices» has grown to 1,947 manuscripts from 79 libraries. «The new manuscripts for our latest update come from a total of 12 different collections. They include 30 manuscripts from the Universitätsbibliothek Basel, of which no fewer than 19 are from the Carthusian Monastery of St. Margarethental, most of whose collections the university library is planning to edit online over the coming years.» («e-codices»)

Image: Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, A VI 38, f. 3r – Libellus of John the Evangelist, http://www.e-codices.unifr.chen/ubb/A-VI-0038/3r/0/Sequence-2625

Treasures from the Burgerbibliothek Bern (1 manuscript), the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg/Kantons-und Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg (3 manuscripts), the Eisenbibliothek in Schlatt (3 manuscripts), the Couvent des Cordeliers Fribourg/Franziskanerkloster (3 manuscripts), the Médiathèque Valais/Mediathek Wallis (6 manuscripts), and the Solothurner Staatsarchiv (7 fragments) expand the digital collection. In addition, there are two more manuscripts from private collections.

«Finally, we are adding manuscripts from three new collections: Romansh writings from the Chesa Planta in Samedan (a museum of home décor and an important library for Romansh literature) and from the Dorfarchiv Bever, both in Grisons, as well as an almost unknown epistolary dated 1342, which today is held in the parish archives of Tesserete (Ticino).« (»e-codices»)

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