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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, N I 3:89
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 1st quarter of the 13th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • The Imperial Chronicle is the most successful 12th century German text.
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv, PA 178/508
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 15th-17th century
    Language
    German
    • The precarious condition of this volume (missing its binding and several quires, with the sewing dissolved
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, Codex restitutus 1
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
    • This codex contains a virtual reconstruction of a manuscript of the codices Codices F III 15e and N I
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 26
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, between 1370 and 1410
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript with philosophical and theological content was written by assorted hands on paper; the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S24
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The most distinctive image in this scroll is the one depicting the hanging of Haman.
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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
    • All three show the influence of Alemannic dialect and all three were produced at the end of the 15th
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 45
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, around 1545-1547
    Language
    German
    • a historical-topographical description of “Turgöuw” or Eastern Switzerland (pp. 1-3) as well as of the
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien, 382
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    e-codices
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien
    Date
    13th century, first half of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Composite manuscript of liturgical texts, containing the prayers of the breviary of the Carthusian Order
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1164
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 14th century
    Language
    German
    • This 15th century paper manuscript was written in the Alemannic region; around 1500 it belonged to a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 564
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • A carefully crafted copy of the life stories of St.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 88
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, beginning of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The Aratea, translated into Latin by Germanicus, describe the 48 ancient constellations and the myths
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 61
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    e-codices
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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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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F VI 60
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript contains exercises and Quaestiones on Aristotle’s works De anima and De physica by the
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F VII 12
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1st half of the 15th century
    Language
    Old Frisian, Latin, German
    • This worn paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains several treatises (in part
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 99
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    e-codices
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau
    Date
    17th century, between 1629 and 1638
    Language
    German
    • Chronicle of Einsiedeln Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 2
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1330
    Language
    French
    • This Bible Historiale is the Bible translated toward the end of the 13th century into French and prose
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 286
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin, German
    • A copy of the work De institutione clericorum (On the institution of the clergy) by Hrabanus Maurus,
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 216
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, first quarter of the 16th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • This prayer book is from the first quarter of the 16th century and was meant for a woman.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • discovered along with several other codices (including 1003, 1005, 1007, 1009) in a false floor over the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1002
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
    • This manuscript, which features two ownership notes from the community of sisters of St.