This manuscript, an autograph, contains a historical-topographical
description of “Turgöuw” or Eastern Switzerland (pp. 1-3) as
well as of the “Oberbodensee” (pp. 201-227), that is, the
villages and areas on the northern (from Bregenz to Überlingen)
and southern (from Rheineck to Kreuzlingen) shore [of Lake
Constance]; it further contains a historical overview of the
development of monasticism and ecclesiastical institutions and of
the process of their decay (pp. 3-138), a history of Saint Gall and
of the monastery of St. Gall (pp. 138-193), and the history of the
Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Caligula (pp. 229-323).
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