Overview of the manuscripts

1. Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. E VI 26

Paper · 231 fol. · Basel · 1420/30; 1439–71; 1473; 1474; after 1474

Digitized version
  • ›Weltchronik‹ (Rudolf von Ems) (extracts)
  • ›Weltchronik‹ (Jansen Enikel) (extracts)
  • Trojanergedicht (fragment)
  • ›Sächsische Weltchronik‹, so-called Erste Bairische Fortsetzung
  • ›Alexander‹ (Lamprecht) (Basel adaptation)
  • ›Colmarer Chronik‹ (extracts)
  • ›Notae historicae Argentinenis‹ (german)
  • Annals of the monastery of Pairis 1335–1422 (latin)
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • Chronistic records of Erhard von Appenwiler
  • Family records of Heinrich Sinner
  • ›Epistola Morbosani‹
  • ›Coronatio regis Frederici anno 1442‹
  • List of the deaths at the Battle of Sempach
  • ›Fehdebrief des Sultans‹
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 2–6 (extracts)
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger
  • ›Littera soldani‹ (invitation letter from the Sultan)
  • ›Rötteler Chronik‹
  • Records of the Basel war 1444–1446

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/7373

2. Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 471

Paper · 214 fol. · around 1420–1424

Digitized version
  • Table of content for the chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1–2
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger
  • List of the prebends of the cathedral of Constance 1524 (latin)
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Otto III. von Hachberg, later additions
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 3–5 (chapters 4 and 5 in parts)
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • Family records of the family zu Rhein
  • List of the bishops of Constance until 1537 (lat.)

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/13868

3. Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Chart. A 158

Paper · II + 308 + III fol. · Augsburg · 1467

Digitized version
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-2
  • ›Gmünder Kaiserchronik‹
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 3–5 (chapters 4 and 5 in parts)
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/6940

4. Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Sal. IX 28

Paper · I + 209 + I fol. · Constance · 2nd quarter of the 15th c.

Digitized version
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-4
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Heinrich von Hewen, later additions
  • ›Moralia dogmati philosophorum‹ (verse)
  • ›Septem genera stultorum, curalitates mundi, incuralitates mundi‹
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/8925

5. Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 475

Paper · 186 fol. · Constance · around 1430

Digitized version
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-5 (4 and 5 in parts)
  • Account of the defeat of Sigismund against the Turks 1396
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Otto III. von Hachberg
  • Personal notes, mainly about travels (Jörg Rephon)
  • Probatio pennae

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/10406

6. Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibl., Cod. Don. 513

Paper · 163 fol. · Strasbourg · around 1401/02; end of the 15th c.

Digitized version
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, preface
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-4
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance
  • Historical account about town and bishop history of Constance until around 1453
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 5-6
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger
  • Family records of the family Hämling/Hemling 1342–1490

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/10619

7. Konstanz, Stadtarchiv, Hs. A I 1

Paper · Constance, 1425, with later additions

  • ›Didymus‹ (prose legend)
  • ›Margaretenlegende‹ (Wetzel von Bernau)
  • ›Gregorius‹ (Hartmann von Aue)
  • ›Marienleben‹
  • ›Sibyllen Buch‹ (›Sibyllenweissagung‹)
  • ›Unser vrouwen klage‹ (redaction II) (H)
  • ›Zehn Gebote‹ (rhymed)
  • ›Barbara‹ (verse legend III)
  • ›Chronicle of the town of Constance‹ until 1466
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Heinrich von Hewen
  • Verses of a scribe
  • Recipes (all over the manuscript)
  • Letter about the persecution of Jews in Glogau in 1411

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/5275

8. München, Bairische Staatsbibl., Cgm 567

Paper · 216 fol. · Augsburg · mid 15th cent.; end of 15th cent.

  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-5 (4 and 5 in parts)
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Friedrich von Zollern
  • Annals of the town of Augsburg 952-1497

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/9896

9. München, Bairische Staatsbibl., Cgm 568

Paper · 287 fol. · Augsburg · 1468–1470

Digitized version
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-5 (4 and 5 in parts)
  • Continuations of the chronicle of Jakob Twinger
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Friedrich von Zollern
  • List of the bishops of Augsburg until Johannes von Werdenberg
  • ›Legende des heiligen Ulrich von Augsburg‹
  • Confession treatise (lat.)
  • ›De transsubstantiatione‹ (6 verses)
  • ›De dignitate sacerdotum‹
  • ›De novem poenis inferni‹
  • ›Orationes pro defunctis‹
  • Confession treatise (german)
  • ›Reformatio Sigismundi‹
  • ›Reformatio Friderici‹
  • Poems about the Council of Constance (Thomas Prischuch)
  • ›Lob der Frauen‹
  • ›Der Renner‹ (Hugo von Trimberg) (extracts)
  • Oration for knight Heinrich von Eschweiler
  • ›Greisenklage‹ (fragment)
  • Poems (Jörg Zobel)

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/6173

10. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibl., Cod. 630

paper · 446 p. · 2nd half of the 15th cent.

  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-4 (in parts)
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹
  • Verses with moral content (latin)
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Hermann von Hohenlandenberg

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/13392

11. Straßburg, Bibl. nationale et universitaire, ms. 5457

Paper · 200 fol. · Constance · 1464

  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1-2
  • List of the bishops of Constance until Otto III. von Hachberg
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 3–5
  • Record of the murder of the bishop Guillaume de Menthonay 1406
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹

Additional information/research literature: https://handschriftencensus.de/12333

12. [unknown] Dürnstein, Regularkanonikerstift [lost]

Paper · 2nd half of the 15th c.

    [Sequence of texts deduced]
  • ›Österreichische Chronik von den 95 Herrschaften‹
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, preface (?)
  • Chronicle of Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, chapters 1–6 (?)
  • List of the bishops of Contance
  • ›Konstanzer Jahrgeschichten‹