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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 102
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1320
    Language
    French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • hagiographic compilation in French prose which recounts the lives of the apostles, martyrs, confessors and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 97
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This 13th century manuscript is from Italy and contains the first four books of the work De fide orthodoxa
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 117
    Collection
    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
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 118
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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 smaller abbeys and foundations of Zurich by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 768
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 10th century, 10th / 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Before that, on pp. 7–58, is a commentary on the Opuscula sacra I–III and V, attributed to John Scotus
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 124
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, around 810/820
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • letter from Charlemagne to Alcuin, a baptismal ritual attributed to Bishop Jesse of Amiens († 836/37), and
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is set between alternating straight and spiral marble columns.
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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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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B327
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, [around 1800]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Omer calendars were especially popular in the 18th century and were available in many different designs
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 50
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • contains De senectute, De amicitia, the Paradoxa ad Brutum by Cicero, the Synonyma by Pseudo-Cicero, 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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    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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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, AF A2, Vol. 2
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    e-codices
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Numerous additions from the 14th and 15th century attest to its use at Notre-Dame Abbey in Neuchâtel.
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, RN 9/1
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg
    Date
    14th century, 1356-1359
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • and Fribourg (Switzerland)
    • leaves contain the ‘normal’ part, which comprises legal matters between 1 February 1356 (New Style) and
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 66
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster
    Date
    14th century, 1384
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • German-Latin and Latin-German dictionary by the cleric Fritsche Closener; in 1384 Friedrich von Amberg
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. heb. 10
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This manuscript consists of four texts: an anonymous treatise on arithmetic and astronomy, an anonymous
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, AF A2, Vol. 1
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    e-codices
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    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Numerous additions from the 14th and 15th century attest to its use at Notre-Dame Abbey in Neuchâtel.
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 339(1322)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 8th century, 8th/9th centuries / 9th/10th centuries
    Language
    Latin
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    • manuscript consists of two parts, bound together for the first time during the 14th century in Einsiedeln and
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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