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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
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This miniature prayer book is the result of a unique collaboration of two of the most eminent Viennese
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 55
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1306-1309
    Language
    Latin
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • listing the expenditures for the royal household of the French King Philip IV the Fair for the years
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan, Ab 47
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    e-codices
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan
    Date
    16th century, 1567
    Language
    Romansch language
    • Constantine the African, c 1020-1098, Monk of Monte Cassino
    • This is the oldest copy of Gian Travers’ drama “Joseph”, performed in Zuoz in 1534.
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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
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Composite volume from the monastery of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 2106
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, probably not after the middle of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • Gall and Zurich, the Canton of Zurich donated these fragments to the Abbey Library of St.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This scroll contains one of the most finely executed series of illustrations to be found in decorated
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 164
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • The fourth of a group of originally six volumes containing St.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 187
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, middle or second half of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Exemplar of the so-called Parisian Bible, a pocket Bible which contains the entire text of the Old and
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 218
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1371
    Language
    French
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Guillaume de Marchaut was one of the most important poets and composers of the middle ages in France.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B257
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1719
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Vienna, copied and decorated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen
    • The anonymous hymn of praise to the Creator Perek schira has been preserved in hundreds of manuscripts
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 561
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 11th century, 9th/10th and 11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B I 12
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 11th/12th and 13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • First part of a two-volume edition of Gregory’s Moralia in Iob.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1092
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 9th century, 819 or about 827/830 / end of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Abbey of Reichenau
    • The Carolingian Plan of St.
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 326(1076)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 9th /10th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Alcuin of York, c 735-804
    • Monastery of Pfäfers (Switzerland)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 339
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, around 1000 / around 980
    Language
    Latin
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Antiphonary, dating from around the year 1000, with Calendar and Gradual (written and provided with fine
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 57
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
    • John of Burgundy
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Copied in 1378 by Francesco di maestro Tura of Cesena, who included both a date and a signature at the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 371
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, third quarter of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Gall, illustrated with a portrait of the epistle-writer Saint Paul and five painted Christological miniatures
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B XI 5
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • This small-format manuscript in Latin is from the Carthusian monastery of Basel; in particular, it treats
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This book of hours in the Parisian fashion is richly illuminated and was made for the diocese of Nantes
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 214
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    7th century, 8th century, around 700
    Language
    Latin
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • 42 fragmentary leaves containing an extremely early copy of portions of the four books of the Dialogs