Swiss Treasures: From Biblical Papyrus and Parchment to , Zwingli, Calvin, and Barth

Judaism, Christianity and the Book of Books

The Epistle of Jude PB IX: 3 pieces Papyrus 72 3./4. century

Codex Bodmer 30: Medieval Bible

Samaritan Pentateuch State and University Library Fribourg/Switzerland L 2057.

The Basel Edition of the Talmud, 1578–1580 The Babylonian Talmud [Talmud Bavli], Basel, Ambrosius Froben for Simon von Günzberg zur Gemse, 1578–1580,2°, duodecimo (Basel University Library, FA I 5a, title page of the tract Ros Hasanah).

Hartmut in Medieval St. Gall

Fragment of an Early Vetus Latina Version of the from the 5th century Abbey Library of St. Gall, Ms. 1394, p. 66 (Mt 18, 13–20). Parchment – 31 × 22.5 cm – Italy (probably Rome) – 5th century.

Fragment of the Oldest Version of the Gospels from the Beginning of the 5th century Abbey Library of St. Gall, Ms. 1395, p. 132 (Mt 28, 1–10). Parchment – 23×18.5 cm – Italy (probably Verona) – 400/420.

Alcuin’s Bible Abbey Library of St. Gall, Ms. 75, p. 3. Parchment – 840 pp. – 55 × 40 cm – Tours, Abbey St. Martin – 9th century.

The “Small Bible of Hartmut” Abbey Library of St. Gall, Ms. 7, p. 5. Parchment – 460 pp. – 23.5 × 17 cm – St. Gall – third quarter of the 9th century.

Erasmus in Humanistic Basel

The Gospels, Greek manuscript, late 11th/early12th c. (Basel University Library, AN IV 1, Bl. 2v). Novum Instrumentum omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, … una cum Annotationibus…, Basel, Johannes Froben, 1516, 2°, duodecimo (Basel University Library, FG V 38, fol. A1r).

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The of 1516 Novum Instrumentum omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, … una cum Annotationibus…, Basel, Johannes Froben, 1516, 2°, duodecimo (Basel University Library, FG V 38, fol. aa1r).

The Second Edition of the New Testament (1519) Annotatio on I Cor. 7, 39 in the 1st edition: Novum Instrumentum omne, Basel, Johannes Froben, 1516, 2°, duodecimo (Basel University Library, FG V 38, S. 468/69). Beginning of the Annotatio on I Cor. 7, 39 in the 2nd edition: Novum Testamentum omne / multo quam antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum, emendatum ac translatum, … una cum Annotationibus recognitis. Basel, Johannes Froben, 1519, 2°, duodecimo (Basel University Library, FG V 41, p. 325).

Manuscript of Annotatio on I Cor. 7, 39 in the 2nd edition of 1519 (Basel University Library, Erasmuslade A IX 56, fol. 691v und 701r)

The Biblia Polyglotta Complutensis Beginning of the according to St. Matthew in: Biblia polyglotta … nunc primum impressa... de mandato ac sumptibus … Francisci Xiemenez de Cisneros ... [Alcalá de Henares] : In Complutensi universitate (Arn Guill. de Brocario), Vol. 5, 1514 (Basel University Library, FA II 10c, fol. A1r).

Zwingli in Reformed Zurich

Old Testament (Hebrew), Basel, Johannes Bebel, 1534, 2° (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: Zw 301).

Bible (German), Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1545, 2° (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: RRg 34).

Bible (German), Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1530, 8° (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: Zwingli 230).

New Testament (Greek), Paris, Simon Colinaeus, 1534, 8° (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: AW 826).

Bible (German), Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1538, 8° (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, call number: AW 336).

2 Calvin in Reformed Geneva

The Olivetan Bible (1535)

1546 Bible with a Sword

The Bible of the Pastors and Professors of Geneva (1588)

Barth in Totalitarian Switzerland and Germany

Barmen Theological Declaration Handwritten manuscript 1934

Handwritten manuscript, Preliminary drafts for Thesis V and Thesis VI

Bonner Thesen Handwritten manuscript

4 exercise books with ruled pages 1919, 1922: Epistle to the Romans

2 pages from the Manuscripts 1919, 1922: Epistle to the Romans

Die Begründung des christlichen Lebens und die Taufe Handwritten manuscript

Die Begründung des christlichen Lebens und die Taufe Typescript

The Book of Books and the New World

John Eliot Indian Bible

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