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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 343
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Mailand Letztes Viertel 9. Jh. (?)
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The Psalms, the core of the work, are preceded by a critical foreword on the text and by other introductory
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 23552
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 14./15. Jh.
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • this impressive parchment manuscript, which contains 342 leaves and measures half a meter in height, are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 4
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 14./15. Jh.
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gmh
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    • The chronicle text contains mainly single-column images, which remained unfinished in their execution
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 18
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 70er Jahre 13. Jh.
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gmh
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    • Only a few of the manuscripts are illuminated.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 30150
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Böhmen (?) um 1430
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Among the military devices discussed are, not surprisingly, trebuchets, battering rams, movable portable
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6406
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Bistum Passau um 1300
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gmh
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    • The abstract geometric treatment of garments and other fabric, which are placed in strongly angled folds
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6297
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Freising vor 784
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • front page (folio 1 verso) is decorated with an architectural border, constructed of four arcades that are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4301
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 1495
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The initials and fleuronée ornamentation are today ascribed to Conrad Wagner, a conventual of Saint Ulrich
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1101
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Hagenau/Elsass 2. Viertel 15. Jh.
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger
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    • Version: Illustrated manuscripts of vernacular paraphrases of biblical history, so-called history Bibles, are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. icon. 414
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Tours 1490 - 1500
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fre, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The scenes on the right are accompanied by an Old Testament prophet and an evangelist.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 2938
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Weingarten (?), um 1130
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • gospel books containing the full texts of the gospels - comprises only those parts of the gospels that are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 23024
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 15. Jh.
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The illustrations are framed by initials from the text.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6433
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Freising [750]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • especially for its script, a form of Anglo-Saxon minuscule, and its typically insular decoration: initials are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 145
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] um 1480
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger
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    • Depicted are the coats of arms of barons, dukes, margraves, archbishops, free cities and towns, and orders
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 11324
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Neapel 1494
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The decorations are ascribed to the Neapolitan painter Giovanni Todeschino (flourished 1482-1503), and
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14045
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    St. Emmeram 1406
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The miniatures and the initials are painted in gouache opaque watercolors: blue, red, orange, green,
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8201 d
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Metten 1414
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • illustrations was never completed: in the second part of the manuscript, some of the colored miniatures are
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010 a
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    [S.l.] 15. Jh.
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger
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    • He did not craft the illuminations all by himself, as they clearly are the work of more than one hand
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 835
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Oxford 1. Viertel 13. Jh.
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Among these, several very unusual motifs concerning heroic women are especially noteworthy.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 341
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Ferrara um 1460
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    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Gothic style and Eastern-inspired elements from the Italian Renaissance, based on oriental models that are