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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel (attributed to)
    • Padua or Venice
    • Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1156
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second third of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • contains around a hundred Latin sermons for Sundays and holidays of the church year for the period from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Emerging from a vase at the center is a large naturalistic flowering wine with scrolling stems and blossoms
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F II 23
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, first half of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • Italy, north (Bologna or Padua)
    • In this Northern Italian manuscript from the first half of the 11th century, Virgil’s works (Bucolica
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 76
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Padua or Venice
    • This codex from Italy contains Gregory the Great’s Homiliae in Ezechielem.
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    Orselina. Convento della Madonna del Sasso, Codice II
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    e-codices
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    Orselina. Convento della Madonna del Sasso
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (first decade)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, north (Bologna or Padua)
    • This Antiphonary contains the first part of the Proprium de Tempore (from the eve of the first Sunday
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 611
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 5th century, 7th century, 8th century (Palimpsests 5th and 7th century)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • or Flanders
    • Most of the close to thirty individual pieces are texts from grammatical, patristic, computistic and
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 165
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • or Flanders
    • This magnificent complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) was given to the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 165
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • or Flanders
    • French manuscript contains the first six books of Virgil’s Aeneid, along with the Argumenta attributed to
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 866
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, first half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • first pagination of the manuscript by the assistant librarian Ildefons von Arx around 1780, the text from
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 142
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany or Switzerland (region of St. Gall?)
    • Germany or Switzerland (region of St. Gall?)
    • In the foreword to CB 142, Prudentius underscores his desire to please God through the work he does,
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • This scroll contains one of the most finely executed series of illustrations to be found in decorated
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    Mariastein. Benediktinerkloster, APN 2 Antiphonar, 2. Teil
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    e-codices
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    Mariastein. Benediktinerkloster
    Date
    14th century, 2nd half of the 14the century
    Language
    Latin
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    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • This antiphonary from the 2nd half of the 14th century includes the texts from Pentecost to the end of
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 172
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • or Flanders
    • This complete edition of the works of Virgil is from Fleury.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 348
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 820
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Evangelary from Fleury, with the texts of the four Gospels, each preceded by two chapter indexes.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 7
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • star chart) consisting of five golden concentric circles containing constellations portrayed as people or
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 265
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, after 850
    Language
    Latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Manuscript compilation from the monastery of St. Gall, produced after 850.
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 27(1195)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 8th century, 8th/9th century / 9th century (second third)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Italy, north (Bologna or Padua)
    • (1-24) was written by various unskilled hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1859
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Agnes or St. Margaretha; later in the Dominican cloister St. Katharinen in Wil SG)
    • Agnes or St. Margaretha; later in the Dominican cloister St. Katharinen in Wil SG)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 41
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, third quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Books of the Old Testament (Isaiah, Hosea, Zechariah and Daniel) from the time of Abbot Grimald (841-