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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 172
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Basil the Great
    • probably the Loire region
    • This manuscript contains only the Bucolics, the Georgics and the first five books of the Aeneid; the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 76
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1475-1500
    Language
    French
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    • Vasco de Lucena translated Quintus Curtius’ history of Alexander into French at the request of Isabella
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M VII
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    e-codices
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (1484?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Processionale copied by the Dominican nuns of the Convent of St. Katharina of St.
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 5
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, first half of the 13th century (after 1235)
    Language
    Latin
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    • John the Deacon of Naples, fl 9th century
    • This collection of hagiographical texts was written by various hands in the second third of the 13th
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 72
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 1267-1276
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • This codex contains the Benedictine Rule. A German translation follows each Latin chapter.
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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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    • Basil the Great
    • workshop of the Abbey of St. Martin of Tours (France, Indre-et-Loire) (cf. F. Huot)
    • probably the Loire region
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    St. Paul in Kärnten. Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal, 30-1
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    e-codices
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    St. Paul in Kärnten. Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • This Engelberg codex, currently held in Carinthia, typifies the painstaking yet unostentatious method
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 145
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The greater part of the manuscript (pp. 21-598) is a compendium by Joseph b.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K91
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1695
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Abraham Enriques Da Costa, were members of a families of religious refugees from Spain and Portugal in the
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 95.3
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • probably the Loire region
    • The Latin part of this fragment (f. 1r–3r) contains a collection of excerpts from various authors regarding
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    Beromünster. Stiftskirche St. Michael, Ms. C 14
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    e-codices
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    Beromünster. Stiftskirche St. Michael
    Date
    15th century, 14th century, second half of the 14th century / 15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The oldest is from the second half of the 14th century; it is written by Albert von Münnerstadt, Conventual
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 751
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Pliny, the Elder
    • A compendium of 39 medical texts by known and unknown authors, produced in the second half of the 9th
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 72
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, first quarter of the 14th century
    Language
    Middle High German, German
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    • The so called "Kalocsa-Kodex" contains more than two hundred texts from the time between the and of the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. l.e. 206
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Occitan
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    • This manuscript was probably written in the 15th century in the Waldensian Valleys of Piedmont (Italy
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1721
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, after 1769 (binding: 1785)
    Language
    German
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    • Order of Service for the Monastery of St. Gall in the Directorium of 1583
    • festivities that occurred on the occasion of the transfer of catacomb saints to the territory of the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [around 1470]
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • This manuscript contains the seven chapters of the aphorisms of Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B344
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This miniature prayer book is the result of a unique collaboration of two of the most eminent Viennese
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
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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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    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The text is divided into 12 sections of a total of 372 paragraphs; its content addresses the rules concerning
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    Müstair. Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Johann, XX/48 Nr. 9
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    Müstair. Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Johann
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, around 800
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Fragment of a copy of Gregory the Great’s Homilies on the Gospels, created around 800.