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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, cod. 6 (JUD040)
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    14th century, 1st half of the 14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The manuscript opens and closes with Masoretic lists (ff.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 218
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, end of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • The manuscript contains numerous Old High German glosses and several Latin glosses, which were added
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 309
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 2nd third of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic, Latin
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    • This manuscript contains a collection of computistic and astronomical texts, as well as medical recipes
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, AN VIII 45
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The style of the painting and of the veneration of the saints suggests the region around Modena, Este
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • contains, among other items, noteworthy initials in the Engelberg book decoration style of the time and
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A IX 14
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Arnold of Villanova (b. c. 1240, d. 1311), physician and reformer
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This volume from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains handwritten and printed texts concerning
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 82
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • claimed it had belonged to Wilton Abbey, in Wiltshire, where its readership would have been noble women and
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 167
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Basil of Caesarea, 329-379, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A X 83
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1472
    Language
    Latin
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    • Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1407-1487) in the first part of the manuscript (the collection De humilitate and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 285
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, first quarter of the 10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • A copy of the commentary of Hrabanus Maurus on the Old Testament books Third- and Fourth Kings, written
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 398
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, about the year 1000
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mainz and St. Gall (?)
    • A Benedictional from the diocese of Mainz, written and decorated with about 200 gold initials and a full-page
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 145
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • A copy of the exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew by the church father Jerome († 420) and his tract De
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 51
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 745
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, middle of the 13th / beginning of the 14th century (Part I), 14th century (Part II)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This two-part manuscript was written in Italy in the period between the middle of the 13th and the beginning
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, KB 35 4°
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1453-1454
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • In addition to sermons and sermon-related material pertaining to Sundays, saints’ days and feast-days
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 320
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 12th/13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Latin composite manuscript from the period between 1150 and 1250, written in Southern Germany, perhaps
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 334
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, around 1200
    Language
    Latin
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • On the spine label and on p. 1/2, it is falsely attributed to Pierre de Tarentaise (later Pope Innocent
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 556
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 9th century, 10th century, 9th/10th century / 12th/13th century
    Language
    Latin, Old High German, German
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    • The manuscript also contains the so-called "St.
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 117
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    e-codices
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau
    Date
    17th century, between 1614 and 1638
    Language
    German
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    • Chronicle of the Fraumünster, the Peterskirche, and the Wasserkirche in Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588