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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 344
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • beautiful initial ‘M’ (a vine scroll contoured in red on a blue and green background), from p. 22 the Canon of
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 604
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • German-language lives of the saints (Maurice and the Theban Legion, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth of Hungary
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 70
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    13th century, middle of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • manuscript, produced in a Parisian workshop during the mid-13th century, contains books I through XVIII of
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 749.8
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 2nd half of the 15th century
    Language
    German
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    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • A love letter in Middle High German, which came to the Burgerbibliothek Bern from the estate of Dr.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 269
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1467 and 1468
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • This volume is a collection of letters, made in 1467 and 1468 in Naples for Roberto da Sanseverino, Prince
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1131
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1566-1567
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Galler monastic community member, Abbot beginning in 1577) of lectures presented by the Spanish Jesuit
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 157(372)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, 8th/9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • This manuscript contains the homilies of Gregory the Great on the prophet Ezekiel.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 102
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1320
    Language
    French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • This manuscript is a hagiographic compilation in French prose which recounts the lives of the apostles
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 182
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • The codex probably was created in the Benedictine Abbey Tegernsee in Bavaria and later was part of the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 309 B
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • Copy of the commentary on the Apocalypse by a certain Berengaudus or Bellengarius, written by numerous
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    Dalpe. Archivio parrocchiale, n. 1
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    e-codices
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    Dalpe. Archivio parrocchiale
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • This parchment booklet from the parish archives of Dalpe (Leventina) contains the story of the suffering
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 24097
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • This parchment contains a rare example of a letter of protection.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • In his De bello Peloponensium, Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B259
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • This Miscellany for Life Cycle Events from the last third of the 15th century was probably a wedding
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 20
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    e-codices
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, last third of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • The 13th-century manuscript is composed of three parts.
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Ms. R 78
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    e-codices
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire
    Date
    18th century, 1776-1778
    Language
    French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Carefully handwritten copy of the first seven Promenades (of the ten that make up the published text)
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B49
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, [ca. 1500]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • The Roman rite, generally known as Nussah Roma, is the oldest order of prayer outside the ancient lands
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 625
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1454
    Language
    German
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    • A copy of the Alexanderroman (Romance of Alexander) by physician, translator and poet Johannes Hartlieb
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B104
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [second half of the 18th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This manuscript contains one of the four autographs of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, known as the Vilna
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13
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    e-codices
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1786
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner