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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/2
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end of
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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, MP 44 / A6096
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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne
    Date
    18th century, before 1762
    Language
    French
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    • A two-column dictionary compiled by Ferdinand Raspieler, parish priest of Courroux (? – 1762).
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    Sarnen. Staatsarchiv Obwalden, Sig. A.02.CHR.0003
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    Sarnen. Staatsarchiv Obwalden
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 1470–1607
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • It is called the “White Book” because it was originally bound in a white pigskin cover.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 278
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
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    • This rare Judeo-Arabic fragment is from the Kitab al-Hidaya ila Faraiḍ al-Qulub (Guide to the Duties of
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 307
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1442
    Language
    Latin
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    • This volume is the second of a three-volume set, an edition of Livius written in 1442 and 1143 in Padua
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 354
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, middle of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • This manuscript is famous primarily for its rich collection of Old French Fabliaux, a considerable number
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1426
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1793
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Joseph Bloch (1754−1799) compiled this history of the lay brothers of the Monastery of St.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 55 bis
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    18th century, 1720-1742
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Bibliothèque de Genève’s Ms. lat. 55 is an exceptional document because it consists of six wax tablets
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M VI 48
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1st half of the 18th century (at the latest 1746)
    Language
    Arabic
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    • Collection of prayers in the form of litanies (awrād), attributed to a Šayḫ Wafāʾ.
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    Appenzell. Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, M.03.02/PfAA A 2.1
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    Appenzell. Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden
    Date
    12th century, around 1160
    Language
    Latin
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    • This missal is the oldest surviving document in the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden; it is owned by the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, last quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    French
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    • This text contains an adaptation of several narrative parts of the Bible in Old French.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Mss.h.h.I.16
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1484/85
    Language
    German
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    • The Spiezer Chronik by chronicler Diebold Schilling, named after its longtime home city of Spiez, is
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 121(1151)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, about 960-970
    Language
    Latin
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    • Because the mass antiphonary is complete, the manuscript remains important to this day as a resource
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. 1
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers)
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, first quarter of the 9th century / 9th-14th centuries
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Liber viventium Fabariensis is likely the most important surviving work of Rhaetish book art.
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Ms. R 55
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire
    Date
    18th century, 1753-1764
    Language
    French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • First complete handwritten edition, with a number of deletions and cross-references.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1276
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1738
    Language
    German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • or were slain along with Leopold II, Duke of Austria on St.
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 303
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • monastery of Hautcrêt, and Amadeus, bishop of the diocese of Lausanne” (from Ciardo).
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 11
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • attributed to Ambroise d’Evreux, informs us that the Chanson d’Aspremont was read aloud during the winter of
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 72
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, 1533 – ca. 1544/45
    Language
    German
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    • This chronicle of the Reformation, an autograph illustrated with numerous woodcuts, comprises seven “
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Affaires de la ville/Stadtsachen A 596
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg
    Date
    16th century, 1577
    Language
    German
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    • From 1564 on, he was a member of the clergy of the Collegiate Church of St.