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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51703
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • Leaf from a calendar (the month of January, divided on two pages), from a small-format liturgical manuscript
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1917
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
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    • Dominican Convent of St. Katharina (Switzerland) (?)
    • Compilation of mystical treatises, referred to as the Greith’scher Traktat for the first editor Carl
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 114
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first third of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Isaiah 14-18.
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv, KU 4a
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • and possessions of the Cistercian Abbey, which reached its economic peak in the second half of the 15th
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 349
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland) (?)
    • This collection of liturgical manuscripts includes the oldest known example of a Collectarium (containing
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 135
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 10th century, 10th century and third quarter of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A compilation from the 11th century containing a version of Prudentius' Psychomachia, illustrated with
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 604
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • many shorter, often later added texts, a number of German-language lives of the saints (Maurice and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 72
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, 1533 – ca. 1544/45
    Language
    German
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    • books”: the first book is about Christ and the Pope, and Kessler describes the old church.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 95.4
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 2nd half of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Maurice of Sully, c 1120-1196, Bishop of Paris
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Fragment of a small-format manuscript with sermons by Maurice de Sully.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 118
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Ezekiel 7-14.
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    Sarnen. Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 64
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    e-codices
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    Sarnen. Benediktinerkollegium
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, last quarter of the 15th, first quarter of the 16th century
    Language
    German, Bavarian
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    • East Upper German-speaking region (Region of Bavaria/Austria)
    • This Book of Hours is from a Bavarian Franciscan nuns’ convent.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 907
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 760-780
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Manuscript compilation for the monastery school of St. Gall, written by the monk Winithar.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 64
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The first pages of this manuscript, copied around the end of the 15th century on paper, lay out the plot
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 339(1322)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 8th century, 8th/9th centuries / 9th/10th centuries
    Language
    Latin
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • This manuscript consists of two parts, bound together for the first time during the 14th century in Einsiedeln
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M II
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    e-codices
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Dominican Convent of St. Katharina (Switzerland) (?)
    • This parchment manuscript written about the end of the 15th century, with musical notation and book decoration
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau, AA/0429 Index
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau
    Date
    16th century, around 1530
    Language
    German
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    • Abbey of Königsfelden (Switzerland)
    • Incomplete alphabetical index by subjects, persons and places for Cartulary II of Königsfelden Abbey
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 30
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, around 800
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of three Old Testament books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs) made in St.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B52
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Hamburg and Altona, copied and illustrated by Jakob ben Juda Leib Schammasch
    • The prophet Elijah, who will come in order to announce the advent of the Messiah, is considered to be
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 464
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, second third of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Songbook owned by the universal scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus; together with Tschudi
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 16: 2
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1572
    Language
    German
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    • The newest and most comprehensive book (Part I) contains the origin and history of the Confederation