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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 725
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • A table of contents for the entire manuscript can be found at the end (pp. 350-361).
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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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    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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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, Ms. 11
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    Porrentruy. Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne
    Date
    15th century, 1425
    Language
    Latin
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    • It was acquired new by Schönensteinbach Cloister (France), thanks to a donation for this purpose from
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv, R 1.1.11
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • It was probably used as binding for a document from the archives of the collegiate church of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1916
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1483
    Language
    German
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    • Katherine in Nurnberg, is a valuable source for the history of the Dominican order in the German speaking
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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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    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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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 611
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, printed 1529 / handwritten part between 1530 and 1550
    Language
    Latin
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    • Av) by a handwritten computistic-calendric table for the years 1501 to 1540 by the scholar Aegidius Tschudi
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 326(1076)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 9th /10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Ordo Romanus XXIII for use on Good Friday, transmitted only in this manuscript, is also notable.
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv, R 1.1.9
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • It was probably used as binding for a document from the archives of the collegiate church of St.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 292a
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    5th century, around 410/420
    Language
    Latin
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    • These particular leaves were attached to the spine and inner side of the cover for reinforcement, as
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 4624.2
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    15th century, 1493
    Language
    Latin
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    • Breviary in two volumes, created in 1493 for Jost von Silenen († 1498), the Bischop of Sion from 1482
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A II 4
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1400-1401
    Language
    Latin
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    • totam Bibliam by Nicholas of Lyra, which the secular priest Rüdiger Schopf from Memmingen created for