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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 58
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, first quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • John of Hildesheim OCarm
    • This manuscript contains the Historia trium regum by John of Hildesheim in a High Alemannic translation
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 10
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Copies of various Old Testament books: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1786
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 181
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, early 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland) (?)
    • The sermons Homiliae XVIII in Apocalypsin, falsely attributed to Augustine, in a manuscript that was
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S II 72
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
    • An early textual witness of Peter Lombard’s († 1160) Sententiae, created perhaps even while the important
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 32
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • The Cistercian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) wrote between 1135 and 1153 the 86 sermons on the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B283
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 1553-1555
    Language
    Italian
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    • This collection of eleven documents in Italian concerning the condemnation and burning of the Talmud
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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)
    • This magnificent book of hours probably was created in the third quarter of the 15th century in Northern
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 166
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • The fifth of a group of originally six volumes containing Augustine's commentary on the Psalms (the sixth
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 95.1
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1370-1380
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Fragment of a 14th century French Trouvère manuscript.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A VIII 37
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • James of Milan OFM
    • 15th century devotional volume, mostly written by the Carthusian Johannes Gipsmüller and owned by the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1121
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1568
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • The lectures took place between 27 January and 11 May 1568 at the Jesuit College de Clermont in Paris
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    Vevey. Musée historique de Vevey, Inv. Nr. 1346
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    e-codices
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    Vevey. Musée historique de Vevey
    Date
    15th century, around 1489/1490
    Language
    Latin
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    • Cathedral of St. Vincent (Switzerland)
    • The manuscript contains the entire winter portion of the Temporale, of the Sanctorale and of the Commune
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B49
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, [ca. 1500]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Roman rite, generally known as Nussah Roma, is the oldest order of prayer outside the ancient lands
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 138
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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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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of the Liber exhortationis ... ad quendam comitem by the patriarch Paul of Aquilaeia († 802) ,
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 235
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, ca. 800
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of books XII through XX of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, produced in about 800 at the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • experience of the prophets was an ecstatic experience and that all true mystics were prophets.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F III 15g
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first third of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • One of the Isidore codices from the Monastery of Fulda; the codex escaped destruction because it reached
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 433
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, third quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Deluxe manuscript with numerous outstanding, perfectly executed initials and an excellent image of dedication
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 80
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Marbod of Rennes, c 1035-1123, Bishop of Rennes
    • This collection, dated to the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, contains