This composite manuscript from the estate of the humanist Aegidius
Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus consists of 12 individual sets of
papers, purchased by the monastery ofSt. Gall in 1768 and bound in
the years thereafter. This volume, mostly written by Tschudi
himself, contains, among others, lists of bishops and other
important office holders in the dioceses of Konstanz, Strasbourg,
Basel and Chur; documents concerning the history of the Monasteries
of St. Gall, Einsiedeln, Muri, Pfäfers, Engelberg and their
abbots; a German copy of the vita of St. Meinrad; copies of
documents of several southern German monasteries; and – the most
important text – the only surviving copy of excerpts from the
"Reichsgutsurbar" of Churrätien from the first half of the 9th
century. The original did not survive; it was no longer available
at the time of Tschudi, who instead copied an incomplete version
from the 10th to 12th century.
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