Vorstellung / Présentation:

The present work is conceived primarily as a finding list for certain texts, and the main emphasis is on the textual content of the manuscripts listed, as against their script and decoration, external appearence, provenance and history. The content has also supplied the main criteria by which the material has been selected, and by which particular manuscripts, or types of manuscripts, have been included or excluded. These criteria are not too easy to describe, and the may appear to some extent arbitrary. When I speak of humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance, I have in mind primarily philosophical, scholarly and literary manuscripts in Latin that were copied during the period between 1300 and 1600 and contain the writings of scholars who were active during that period… As a rule, I exclude documents, statutes and chronicles, religious and liturgical works, vernacular poetry and literature in Italian and other languages, technical treatises on law and theology, on the sciences and on the arts, as well as musical compositions, drawings and maps… Works by classical, patristic and medieval authors have been largely excluded. Exceptions have been made for manuscripts copied or owned by noted Renaissance scholars, and above all, Latin translations from the Greek, and Latin commentaries on classical Greek and Latin writers have been included, as far as possible. (Preface of vol. I).

Betrifft Handschriften in / Lieux concernés:

AARAU, Aargauische Kantonsbibliothek, BASEL, Universitätsbibliothek, BERN, Burgerbibliothek, BEROMÜNSTER, Stiftsbibliothek, CHUR, Staatsarchiv Graubünden, COLOGNY, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, EINSIEDELN, Stiftsbibliothek, ENGELBERG, Stiftsbibliothek, FRAUENFELD, Kantonsbibliothek, FRIBOURG, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, FRIBOURG, Bibliothèque des Cordeliers, GENÈVE, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, LANGWIESEN, Eisenbibliothek der Georg Fischer AG, LAUSANNE, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, LUGANO, Biblioteca cantonale e Libreria Patria, LUZERN, Zentralbibliothek, PORRENTRUY, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, ST. GALLEN, Stiftsbibliothek, ST. GALLEN, Kantonsbibliothek (Vadiana), SCHAFFHAUSEN, Stadtbibliothek, SION, Bibliothèque du Chapitre, SOLOTHURN, Zentralbibliothek, WINTERTHUR, Stadtbibliothek, ZÜRICH, Zentralbibliothek.