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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B345
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 1355
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Various annotations and citations indicate that important Ashkenazic rabbis hat access to the manuscript
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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 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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    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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    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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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/2
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia
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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. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1468
    Language
    German
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The paper is of Italian manufacture; the Lombard initials, the binding stamp and what remains of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 53
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1470-1475
    Language
    French
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    • by Quintus Curtius Rufus, which is augmented by texts from Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, Aulus Gellius and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 80
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, 13th century, 10th, 11th, 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • The first part (f. 1r-20v) contains the oldest version of Gunzo’s Epistola ad Augienses and can be dated
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, last quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • alexandrine verse (en laisses d’alexandrins) was composed in the 12th century by an author of the continent and
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F III 15f
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, first half of the 8th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • England and Netherlands
    • the codex escaped destruction because it reached Basel during the 16th century, before the abduction and
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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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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/1
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsBN 49
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of the 14th century / first half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • The manuscript is decorated with several red and blue initials.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 296
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850 / second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Mainz and St. Gall (?)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1513
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1775
    Language
    Latin, Armenian
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    • Confessio fidei Armenicæ ecclesiæ in Armenian and Latin
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 553
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 9th/10th centuries
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gall, includes multiple short hagiographic and liturgical texts including: a) the life history of Columba
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. gr. 44
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • manuscript contains a great number of scholia, which partially complete those of older manuscripts and
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    Appenzell. Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden, E.10.00.07
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    e-codices
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    Appenzell. Landesarchiv Appenzell Innerrhoden
    Date
    18th century, around 1700
    Language
    German
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    • Chronicles on the Reformation and on the division of the canton