Breviary, rubricated red and blue, with numerous initials on a gold
background as well as drolleries at the lower margin. Calendar with
the signs of the zodiac and with agricultural tasks to be carried
out in each month. Particularly worthy of emphasis are the
full-page representations of St. Christopher (p. 176), of the
Adoration of the Magi (p. 178), and of Christ on the Cross (p.
179). Based on the mention of saints in the calendar and in the
rest of the manuscript, it was probably created in Besançon. From
there, by unexplained means, it came into the possession of the
patrician family Wallier of Solothurn: owners’ entries by
Guillaume Wallier (16th century) and Henri Wallier (1605) on p. 4
and p. 731, the latter’s also on the front cover. On p. 90 of the
1858 catalogue of the cantonal library of Thurgau, the provenance
is given as Fischingen. Possibly the mansucript reached Fischingen
by means of one of the two abbots of Fischingen from Solothurn,
Augustin Bloch from Oberbuchsitten (1776-1815) or the last Abbot of
Fischingen, Franz Fröhlicher from Bellach (1836- 1848).
