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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel, Cod. H87
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
    Date
    18th century
    Language
    German
    • This copy of Burkart von Hallwyl's (1535-1598) pharmacopoeia is a collection of medications and recipes
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    Chavannes-près-Renens. Archives cantonales vaudoises, P Antitus
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    Chavannes-près-Renens. Archives cantonales vaudoises
    Date
    16th century, 1500-1501
    Language
    French
    • This manuscript contains the poems La satyre megere, a poem about the reconciliation of King Louis XII
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • On one of the leaves that have been cut out, now cataloged as D 126 at the Stiftsarchiv Engelberg, a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1767
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, around 1500/1520
    Language
    Latin
    • The banderole on p. 55, which ends with etc. 156, may give a (false) indication regarding the dating
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B252
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last third of the 15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Several motifs from the manuscript seem to "grow" out of an ornament, such as a head with a bumpy nose
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 349
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This collection of liturgical manuscripts includes the oldest known example of a Collectarium (containing
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 501
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 1559
    Language
    Persian
    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains a selection of the “One Hundred Sayings by Ali,” a collection
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 54
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
    • This is the fifth part of a six-volume copy of Gregory’s Moralia in Iob (Min. 50-55), containing Books
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1919
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (before 1498)
    Language
    Alemannic, Latin
    • A collection of religious writings from the Dominican cloister of St. Katherina in St.
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    Trogen. Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, CM Ms. 6
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    Trogen. Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, French
    • yet qualitatively narrower range of illustrations: each of the Gospel selections is accompanied by a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 379
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 11th century, 12th century, 14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • -53) contains sequences by Notker Balbulus and other authors, the second part (pp. 55-226) contains a
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 89
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 12th century, 9th century; 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • red decorated initials and first lines at the beginning of each book, red-accentuated capitals and a
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485-1490
    Language
    French
    • In the 1240s, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen wrote a Latin treatise on falconry (De arte venandi cum avibus
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 710(322)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 15th century (about 1490)
    Language
    Middle High German, German
    • This manuscript was a gift from a married couple, Ehlinger-von Kappel (Constance) to the Dominican convent
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 153
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 2nd half of the 14th century
    Language
    German, Alemannic
    • With his brief "Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit,” the Dominican Henry Suso (1295-1366) created a work that
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 61
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, 1496
    Language
    Latin, German
    • This small-format book contains parts of the Liturgy of the Hours for a Convent of the Poor Clares.
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 4
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    17th century, 1647
    Language
    Armenian, Latin
    • The text contains the collection of hymns in use in the Armenian Church, in the same order as in a Hymnarium
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Emerging from a vase at the center is a large naturalistic flowering wine with scrolling stems and blossoms
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 31
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript contains the Song of Songs with a lacuna (6.5-8) due to the loss of a sheet.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little