e-codices newsletter | issue no. 61 | August 2025
In this issue:
- 3000 manuscripts
- e-cORD and the renewal of the Virtual Manuscript Library
- Fragments from St. Gall
- An early Carolingian witness
- The Steinen Breviary
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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 542
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1. 3000 manuscripts
On August 21, 2025, e-codices published document number 3000. This milestone marks the durability of e-codices, which published its first manuscripts twenty years ago, and its success in pursuing its goal of publishing all medieval manuscripts in Switzerland. In this update, e-codices publishes fragments and a precious collection of medieval University speeches and sermons from St. Gall, another spectacular Bongars manuscript from the Burgerbibliothek Bern, a slew of beautiful and intriguing codices from Basel, and, from the Fondation Martin Bodmer, an exquisite roll with passages from the Koran and a prayer.
> To the manuscripts |
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2. e-cORD and the renewal of the Virtual Manuscript Library
The Center for Manuscript Research – University of Fribourg is pleased to announce the launch of the project "e-codices – linked Open Research Data" (e-cORD), funded by swissuniversities. The project e-cORD will upgrade the infrastructure of e-codices to support the next generation of linked Open Research Data (ORD) and work to establish a common European framework for sharing rich metadata and images concerning medieval manuscripts and related cultural heritage objects. To achieve these objectives, the project will systematically upgrade the components and frameworks that constitute the infrastructure of e-codices. Over the next year, we aim to upgrade the Virtual Manuscript Library.
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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 180, f. 3v
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1396
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3. Fragments from St. Gall
The current update brings to e-codices the 32 folders of fragments that formerly constituted Cod. Sang. 1396, one of the volumes composed of fragments removed from the bindings of St. Gall books in the late eighteenth century, and bound together in 1822 by Ildefons von Arx. The fragments in Cod. Sang. 1396 come from a range of genres — poetry, grammar, medicine, and history — as well as papal and regional documents. Their publication on e-codices features new descriptions by Drs. Brigitte Roux and Philipp Lenz.
>Explore the fragments
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4. An early Carolingian witness
From the Burgerbibliothek Bern comes a manuscript acquired by Jacques Bongars, a composite codex from the eighth and ninth centuries gathering together precious copies of works by Chrodegang and Theodolf of Orléans, as well as the Martyrologium Hieronymianum. Produced in St. Avold, near Metz, it provides precious testimony to the manuscript art and religious devotion of early medieval Lotharingia.
>Interrogate the witness
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Suggested 250 characters.
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5. The Steinen Breviary
Found for sale in England nearly a century ago, this late-medieval breviary belonged to the convent of Steinen in Basel, and reflects the spirituality of the Dominican Nuns responsible for its production. This work, with its German text and spectacular illuminations, resides in the University Library of Basel.
> Admire the Breviary from a distance
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, B XI 24, f. 7v
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