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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 99
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    e-codices
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1474
    Language
    French
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    • Jean à la Barbe
    • At once a travel memoir and a geography book, the Voyages by John Mandeville, probably written around
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 126(218)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first third of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript has been in Einsiedeln since at least the 17th century, as shown by an ex libris on page
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 172(1128)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, 3rd third of the 9th century / 8th/9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Probably the two parts were combined when the manuscript was rebound in the 14th century; since then, it has
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 104
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Summa super titulis (or rubricis) Decretalium is a famous legal treatise about the Decretals of
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 135
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 10th century, 10th century and third quarter of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 - c. 413 A.D.))
    • Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
    • A compilation from the 11th century containing a version of Prudentius' Psychomachia, illustrated with
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 446
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, between 845 and 870
    Language
    Latin
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    • Amalaire de Metz (775-850), bénédictin, écolâtre à la cour d'Aix-la-Chapelle, archevêque de Trèves.
    • Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
    • It contains, among other items, a liturgical study by Abbot Walahfrid Strabo of Reichenau (808/09-849
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 57
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1402
    Language
    French
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    • Jacobus a Varagine (1228?-1298)
    • Popular not only in Latin but also in the vernacular languages, it had various uses, as a tool for preaching
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 258
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, Old High German
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    • Cicerón, Marco Tulio, 106-43 a.C
    • comprises three commentaries on the Old and the New Testament; the second part (f. 48-192) consists of a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 587
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 14th century, 14th century / 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jacobus a Varagine (1228?-1298)
    • Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
    • Bonvicinus de Ripa, in verse (pp. 205-241); Facetus de vita et moribus (pp. 242-267); Liber floretus by a
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B X 29
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, 13th and 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-65 A.D.
    • The second part, written by a main hand from the 14th century, contains a vast collection of exempla 
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
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    • Beatty, A. Chester (Alfred Chester) Sir (1875-1968)
    • decoration consists of numerous initials with bianchi girari (white vine scroll), with side borders and with a
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurF 14
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1474
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aegidius Romanus, O.S.A., 1243/1247-1316
    • In 1474 Adam Keuten, since 1467 parish priest at the Hofkirche in Lucerne, compiled a large-format volume
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 18
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • BENEDICTUS a Sancta-Maura
    • CB 18, a parchment manuscript, contains two such works, the Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 52
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • ANTONIUS A PARMA
    • Jean Halgrin (v. 1180-1237), cardinal, professeur de théologie à l'université de Paris, prieur de Saint-Pierre
    • Jacobus a Varagine (1228?-1298)
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 386
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    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1463-1466
    Language
    Alemannic, Romansch language, German
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    • Aristóteles, 384-322 a.C
    • TThis southern german manuscript is a collection of medical texts that include, in addition to the Artzneibuch
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 10
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aristóteles, 384-322 a.C
    • This manuscript, written on parchment during the 13th century, presumably belonged to a student of the
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F III 20
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aegidius Romanus, O.S.A., 1243/1247-1316
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 128
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Beatty, A. Chester (Alfred Chester) Sir (1875-1968)
    • It was written by various hands in a 9th century Carolingian minuscule; in addition to initials drawn
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F III 8
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, middle of the 14th century - beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aristóteles, 384-322 a.C
    • This composite manuscript of mainly astrological-astronomical content includes a journal of weather observations
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 570
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • César, Cayo Julio, (100-44 a.C.
    • Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
    • A composite manuscript, produced for the most part during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.