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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 173
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written at the Abbey of St.
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 8
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    e-codices
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, about 1577-1591
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This “libro di ricordanze” belonged to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; it is probably comprised of the notes
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 673
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Important early textual witness of the Decretum Gratiani, probably even the earliest known version.
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau, AA/0429
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, begun around 1417, with additions until 1530
    Language
    German, Latin
    • Abbey of Königsfelden (Switzerland)
    • Copies of the privileges, regulations, registers of annual donations and documents from the 13th to the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485-1490
    Language
    French
    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • In the 1240s, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen wrote a Latin treatise on falconry (De arte venandi cum avibus
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 92
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, German, French, Ancient Greek
    • Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316
    • This manuscript, copied in the years 1460-1480, contains De regimine principum by Aegidius Romanus, decorated
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Msc. 41. fol.
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, March 7, 1460 – March 5, 1461
    Language
    Latin
    • Nicholas of Lyra
    • Contains the commentaries of French Franciscan Nicholas of Lira (ca. 1270/1275-1349) on the Old Testament
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 88
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • This volume is a copy of Augustine's commentary on the Sermon on the Mount.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, last quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    French
    • England and Netherlands
    • This text contains an adaptation of several narrative parts of the Bible in Old French.
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien, 383
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This small liturgical book was used in the Monastery of San Michele di Campagna near Verona during the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 555
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, third quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Adomnán of Iona, d 704, Saint, Abbot of Iona
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Adamnan of Iona (Hy; ca. 624-704), Vita of Saint Columba († 597), with a faded pen drawing of the saint
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 94
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • A not particularly good quality copy of three letters by Ambrose, three chapters from the work De
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 12
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • This codex contains Augustine’s commentary on the Psalms, written in a small, extremely fine script.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F VII 12
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1st half of the 15th century
    Language
    Old Frisian, Latin, German
    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This worn paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains several treatises (in part
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A X 122
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1496-1498
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic
    • Carthusian Monastery of Basel
    • an address in German to the lay brothers), deacons and subdeacons, instructions for the office of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • work which attests to the 14th century’s interest in the history of Roman law.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. AA 91
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    German
    • William of Auvergne
    • The so-called "Berner Parzival" is the last dated manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem about
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurQ 7
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, second half of the 14th century and second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Southwestern region of German
    • This monastic breviary was written in the second half of the 14th century for a Benedictine monastery
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 59
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German, Swabian
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • 59 brings together in one contemporaneous binding three manuscripts that were produced independently of
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 746
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, second half of the 13th century – first half of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript, decorated with fleuronné initials and occasional pen drawings, was written in Italy