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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03265
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1460-1480
    Language
    Italy
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    • Catholic Church Prayers and devotions Early works to 1800
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Generally attributed to Thomas à Kempis; formerly attributed to St Bernard
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05314
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1150-1200?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Note: Rotunda antiquior script; up to 26 long lines per page (20 x 11.5 cm
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01049
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1475-1500?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Written by a single hand in Latin; in dark brown ink ruled in light red; paragraph marks in red, with some
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03249
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1240?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Includes some guide notes for the rubricator in the far inner margin; majuscules with text touched
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01076
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1250-1300?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Some catchwords, especially in second part of text; rubrics and paragraph marks in red; sidenotes
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01125
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    Late 13th cent.
    Language
    Latin
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • England and Netherlands
    • Written by one hand in red and black ink with ornamental initials in red and blue.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 5-006
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    12--?
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Note: Manuscript on paper; written in two columns, 25-29 lines to a column
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 04404
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1200-1250
    Language
    Latin
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • England and Netherlands
    • Written in brown ink in a large and very regular hand.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05321
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1153
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Leaves [1-32] contain up to 26 long lines per page (215 x 130 mm); leaves [33-67] in columns of
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01199
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1410
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • paper title-piece with title in ink; remnants of metallic "nails" or "hinges" on bottom cover (used to
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 3-015
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    11--?
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Note: Manuscript on vellum; the parchment is prepared so that hair and flesh
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03245
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    14--?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Written by several hands in Latin with some rubrics in French; in black ink with ornamental initials
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 3-002
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    9--?
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Note: Ascribed to Yehudai ben Naḥman, 8th cent.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03208
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1766
    Language
    German
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Contemporary half-calf over pastepaper boards, some loss to spine.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 07012
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1375?
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Collation: ii + I⁸, II⁹ (3 is a singleton glued to a stub, 8 a singleton
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01237
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1425-1450?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Modern vellum binding over cardboard, with smooth spine, and edges speckled in red.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 9-002
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    10--?
    Language
    Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
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    • Byzantine hand (date and place are uncertain; the codicological evidence seems to point to a North African
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05288
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    mid 15th cent.
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • cursive book hand; on paper; anchor watermark (not found in Bricquet or Mošin)Title from incipit to
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 04246
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1300-1330
    Language
    Latin
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    • visible only on some leaves.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 3-016
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    13--
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Text of piyutim very close to version in modern editions of the Maḥzor.