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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv, R 1.5.7
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    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This bifolium was used as binding for the Liber fabricae sub littera C, with accounts from 1522 to 1528
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv, R 1.5.8
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This bifolium was used as binding for the Liber Cellae sub littera AA, with accounts from 1520 from the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 68
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Carolingian reform efforts responded to a desire to regularize religious orders by creating a unified rule for
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F I 21
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The Pecia System is a method for the quick handwritten reproduction of an original: instead of copying
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F IV 43
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1429
    Language
    Latin
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    • Maria Magdalena “in den Steinen”, left this treatise to the sisters for their moral edification.
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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, Ms. 13
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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne
    Date
    15th century, 1452
    Language
    Latin
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    • The lemmas are set off by rubricated initials; space was left for larger initials which, with few exceptions
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 831
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Among these are, for example, small pieces by Walahfried Strabo (Regulae metricae; a letter with the
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv, KA 140
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    18th century, 1718
    Language
    German
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    • Through the rituals for conjuring spirits described in the book, people around the priest Hans Kaspar
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1468
    Language
    German
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    • For illustrations Schlüsselfelder used early Italian copperplate engravings portraying the cardinal virtues
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 35
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
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    • This copy of texts and letters by Augustine is written in a single column and is undecorated except for
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F III 15g
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first third of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • There it apparently served as a possible textual source for a planned edition of Isidore’s works.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
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    • The Elegia, a prose work written by Boccaccio in his youth, praised for the subtlety of its psychological
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 42
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1455-1460
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • The script and the typical characteristics of the layout with spaces for never-executed illustrations
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 84
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, first half of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • This book must have changed libraries for historical reasons.
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 56
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1472-1474
    Language
    Latin
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    • about 1474 that was printed by Michael Wenssler in Basel (GW M49385) and that also served as model for
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • For centuries this manuscript was unknown, until in 1963 it was discovered along with several other codices
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    Sarnen. Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 69
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    Sarnen. Benediktinerkollegium
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • This small 12th century prayer book, the oldest in the German language, was written for a woman.
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 1
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (about 1470)
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • binding consists of simple wooden tablets, covered in leather without any ornamentation, which is typical for
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • This Engelberg manuscript later served as the master text for yet another copy, Cod. 60 of the Schaffhausen
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    Sion/Sitten. Archives de l'Etat du Valais/Staatsarchiv Wallis, AVL 477
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    Sion/Sitten. Archives de l'Etat du Valais/Staatsarchiv Wallis
    Date
    15th century, 1420/29
    Language
    Latin
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    • explains in the colophon (193vb) that the volume was produced on the order of Clemens of Uolrichen for