Around 1520, Georg Carpentarius, the librarian of the Carthusian
Monastery of Basel at the time, compiled a shelf listfor the
library. This catalog consists of two volumes, one each for the two
library rooms of the Bibliotheca antiqua (AR I 2) and the
Bibliotheca nova (AR I 3). The catalog for the Bibliotheca antiqua
is preceded by the so-called “Informatorium bibliothecarii”, a
guide for the librarian which instructs him in his tasks, among
them the cataloguing and the care of the books as well as of the
inventory. Bound into the front is a list of books that were
donated to the Ittingen Charterhouse by the Carthusian Monastery of
Basel in 1526.
