Archives of the Franciscans in Friborg (Switzerland)

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Archives of the Franciscans

Franciscan convent from the cathedral tower
Franciscan convent from the cathedral tower
Archive type Convention Archives
Coordinates 46 ° 48 '26.9 "  N , 7 ° 9' 38.9"  O Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '26.9 "  N , 7 ° 9' 38.9"  E ; CH1903:  578 794  /  184 072
place Friborg im Üechtland , Canton Friborg SwitzerlandCanton of FriborgCanton of Friborg  SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Visitor address Franciscan monastery archive and library, Murtengasse 6
founding 1256
ISIL CH-000243-6
Website https://www.cordeliers.ch/bibliothek-und-archiv/archive/

The archive of the Franciscans in Friborg (Switzerland) belongs to the monastery of the Franciscan Minorites and is located at Murtengasse 6, in the newly built cultural property protection room. A modern reading room is available to users.

history

The foundation stone for the first Franciscan settlement in the city of Freiburg was laid by Jacques von Riggisberg, a citizen of Freiburg, in his will from 1256: He bequeathed his property next to the Church of Our Lady and its building to the Franciscans of the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan Province of Argentina, on the condition that one Church and a monastery would be built within three years. Brothers of the convent in Basel accepted the donation.

In the 15th century, scholars and artists who created valuable manuscripts and works of art of importance were part of the Franciscan convent. During this time, the house superiors set up a library, which was used for the study and training of the monastery members. The first larger book collection comes from Friedrich von Amberg († 1432), of which 18 volumes have been preserved. He also pushed the establishment of a copy workshop and a bookbindery, in which Franciscans worked between 1460 and the end of the 16th century. There are also books by Conrad Grütsch and above all by Jean Jolly, from whose possession 31 manuscripts and numerous incunabula have survived. The Franciscan monastery maintained the oldest and richest library in the city of Freiburg in the 15th century.

The archive and library have been housed in the newly built cultural property protection room next to the Père Girard house since 2014. A modern reading room has been available to users since 2014.

Holdings of the archive and the library

The archive of the convent contains 344 parchment documents and books and files on the history of the Franciscan monastery in Freiburg since it was founded in 1256. The archive of the general commissioner and the Swiss province (1972–2002), the general delegation (2002–2012) and the archive of the custody also provide documentation Austria-Switzerland the superordinate institutions of the Swiss monasteries of the Franciscan Minorites in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The old library contains 90 medieval and around 100 post-medieval manuscripts, plus 136 incunabula and 80 post incunabula (prints from 1500–1550). This collection is an important example in Europe of a library in a mendicant order and reflects the current state of philosophical and theological literature.

The so-called large convent library comprises 35,000 volumes from 1550, including 10,000 volumes prior to 1900. This library is an associated library of the RERO library network (Résau de la Romandie: Reseau des bibliothèques de Suisse romande).

According to A objects in the KGS inventory, the monastery, its archive and the library represent a cultural asset of national importance.

A restoration workshop specializing in manuscripts, early printed works and graphics has been in operation in the Franciscan monastery since 1979.

Web links

Individual notes

  1. ↑ The archive. Franciscan Minorites / Provincial Custody Austria-Switzerland, accessed on June 9, 2020 (German, French).
  2. ↑ cordeliers.ch: Freiburg: History of the Franciscan monastery , accessed on 15 June 2020th
  3. ↑ Marcel Strub: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire du canton de Friborg. Tome III: La ville de Friborg. Les monuments religieux (deuxième partie) (= Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse [Hrsg.]: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire de la Suisse ). Editions Birkhäuser, Basel 1959, p. 3 .
  4. ↑ The library. Franciscan Minorites / Provincial Custody Austria-Switzerland, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Marcel Strub: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire du canton de Friborg. Tom III . La ville de Friborg: Les monuments religieux (deuxième partie) (= Sociéte d'histoire de l'art en Suisse [Ed.]: Les monuments d'art et d'histoire de la Suisse ). Editions Birkhäuser, Basel 1959, p. 3 .
  6. ↑ The archive. Franciscan Minorites / Provincial Custody Austria-Switzerland, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The library. Franciscan Minorites / Provincial Custody Austria-Switzerland, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  8. ^ A objects of the canton of Friborg. In: KGS inventory. Federal Office for Civil Protection, 2009, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Restoration workshop . Franciscan Minorites / Provincial Custody Austria-Switzerland, accessed on June 15, 2020 .