e-codices Newsletter #63    		 View online   | en |

       

      e-codices newsletter | issue no. 63 | Spring 2026

      In this issue:

      1. Spring update
      2. Thurgau catalogue and manuscripts
      3. Pfäfers treasures
      4. Lost book found in Anthony of Parma's sermons
      1. Spring update

      This Spring, e-codices brings some exceptional manuscripts online, including an Edda from Cologny, obituaries from Schaffhausen, and sermons from St. Gall.

      (Image: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 2, f. 25r, detail)

      > To the manuscripts
      2. Thurgau catalogue and manuscripts

      The Cantonal Library of Thurgau publishes five manuscripts, including a spectacular Bible (pictured here) and Ulrich Boner’s collection of fables, Der Edelstein. In addition, last autumn saw the publication of the eagerly anticipated catalogue of medieval manuscripts in the Cantonal Library, and the e-codices team has begun encoding the new descriptions on the platform. This update features three such descriptions: ALT MSC 3, Y 12, and Y 24.
      3. Pfäfers treasures

      This update includes two manuscripts from the Abbey of Pfäfers, now held at the Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen. The Dog and Goat mark the beginning of Cod. Fab. VIII, a thirteenth-century gradual and sacramentary bound together with a fifteenth-century mass formulary and ordo missae, as well as a thirteenth-century calendar and sequentiary. Less composite is the Georg Basthard’s Chronicle of St. Gall and Pfäfers, from the origin of the Raetians to the mid-seventeenth century.
      4. Lost book found in Anthony of Parma's sermons

      As noted above, this update published manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall containing sermons and devotional literature. Important in themselves as witnesses to their texts and to their reception at St. Gall, these codices hold surprises that digitization can reveal. For example, Cod. Sang. 1062 has a late-fourteenth-century copy of the sermons of the Anthony of Parma, but careful photography reveals another manuscript: its paper quires are protected by strips of parchment from a Psalter.