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      e-codices newsletter | issue no. 58 | October 2024

      In this issue:

      1. Autumn update
      2. A richly illuminated Lorraine masterpiece
      3. The Council of Basel's mission to Greece
      4. The sources for Erasmus' New Testament
      5. A Samaritan Pentateuch
      1. Autumn Update

      On 26 September 2024, e-codices published 24 medieval manuscripts. The update includes numerous liturgical works, devotional texts, part of a ninth-century Physiologus, William of Ockham’s Summa logica, and a copy of Ovid’s Epistolae ex Ponto that was thought to have been lost.

      > To the manuscripts
      2. A richly illuminated Lorraine masterpiece

      This update features three spectacular manuscripts from the Burgerbibiliothek Bern, including a miscellany (Cod. 98) from the collection of the humanist bibliophile Jacques Bongars. This fourteenth-century codex contains primarily the World Chronicle ascribed to Baudouin of Avesnes, with extensive illuminations ascribed to the circle of Renaud de Bar in Metz.

      > Explore this book
      3. The Council of Basel’s mission to Greece

      e-codices welcomes the Episcopal Archive of the Diocese of Basel in Solothurn to the digital library, with four volumes, including the notary Jakob Hüglin's notes and revised account of the Council of Basel's delegation to Greece. In February 1437, the delegation set out to negotiate for union between the Latin and Greek churches.

      > To the virtual Episcopal Archive
      4. The sources for Erasmus’ New Testament

      The Basel delegation arrived in Constantinople, where the Council’s legate, John of Ragusa, had been working since 1435. When the Greek delegates decided to attend the Council of Ferrara-Florence, John returned with the delegation to Basel. He brought with him several Greek manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Dominican convent in Basel. In 1515, Johann Froben invited Erasmus to prepare an edition of the Greek New Testament, and he did so on the basis of John of Ragusa’s manuscripts. This update features two Tetraevangelia, two Praxapostoloi, and one volume of the Pauline Epistles.

      > Stand on the shoulders of giants
      5. A Samaritan Pentateuch

      The Fondation Bodmer brings to e-codices a Samaritan Pentateuch. The manuscript is copied in Samaritan-Hebrew characters and features two languages in facing-columns, with Hebrew on the right and Arabic on the left. The volume, produced in the latter part of the fifteenth century, was sold in 1532 and purchased again in Nablus in 1861.

      > To the codex