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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, Inc 705
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    Latin
    • Rhetorica ad Herennium in the front part of this composite manuscript was copied by Johannes Heynlin, who also
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 189
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Thirteen miniatures and a number of filigreed initials adorn the alexandrine monorhyme stanzas of the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 777
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • church fathers (Augustine, Gregory the Great, Jerome, etc.) about the church (de catholica ecclesia) and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 704
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, first half of the 18th century
    Language
    Sanskrit
    • It is one of the most copied texts in the Hindu tradition and survives in a huge number of manuscripts
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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
    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 48
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    English
    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • by Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Poetry", have been preserved in 82 medieval manuscripts and
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 312(541)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, 10th/11th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic
    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • This manuscript contains several works by Prudentius and was written by various scribes.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 5th century, 5th century (lower script) / 8th century (upper script)
    Language
    Latin
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Palimpsest Manuscript with texts from the 8th (upper script band) and 5th (lower script band) centuries
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. D 219
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 17th century, 16th/17th centuries
    Language
    Latin
    • Among them are also numerous verses about St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 422
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Leo I, d 461, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Lectionary and homilary for the period from Pentecost to the last Sunday after Pentecost, meticulously
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 2135
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1774
    Language
    Latin
    • Gall monks, and richly illustrated by Father Notker Grögle (1740−1816).
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 96
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    e-codices
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, 1463
    Language
    Latin
    • philosophical text by the Franciscan John of Wales, Breviloquium, from the second half of the 13th century, and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 582
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • On the last three pages a sermon for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (June 29) has been added.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B328
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Nikolsburg, [copied and illustrated by Samuel ben Zevi Hirsch Dresnitz]
    • This miniature book contains the Grace after Meals with the usual supplements for Hanukkah and Purim
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 199
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, third quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Institutiones I and II
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, SH 228
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    16th century, second half of the 16th century
    Language
    German
    • The Housebook of the Lords of Hallwil, also known as Turnierbuch, is a combination of family chronicle
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, P 6 4°
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek
    Date
    end of the 15th century
    Language
    German
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • This Book of Hours belonged to the town clerk and alderman of Solothurn, Franz Haffner (1609-1671).
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 167
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, around 1260
    Language
    Latin
    • product of the highest level of artistry of the High Gothic painting of this period around 1260, which is also
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120.I
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, ca. 1039 – ca. 1056
    Language
    Latin
    • Aurelius Victor (b. c. 320, d. c. 390), Roman historian and politician
    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
    • composite manuscript contains various texts in chronicle form, some of them rare, regarding worldly and
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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
    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Gall patron saints Gallus, Otmar and Wiborada from the first half of the 12th century, written in a late