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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 103
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    e-codices
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    16th century, 1524
    Language
    Latin, French
    • A book of hours following the liturgical custom of Rome, with a calendar containing a selection of saints
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 39
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1445, 1452
    Language
    Latin, German
    • The Liber ordinarius is a liturgical text that describes the ceremonies for every day and for holidays
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 104
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    e-codices
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
    • This copy of seven hagiographic texts, to which a Vita Longini (f. 143v) was added a short while later
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B351
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Clearly it had originally been meant for a woman, probably as a wedding present.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 704
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, first half of the 18th century
    Language
    Sanskrit
    • This manuscript comprises a collection of four different texts.
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 255(460)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 10th century (around 960-970)
    Language
    Latin
    • The text is introduced by a full-page miniature, showing a medallion with Cassian in the middle, in the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Fragm. Fab. IV
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers)
    Date
    14th century, first third of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • A parchment double leaf containing a fragment of a Passion Play in German, including neumes.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 598
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1431/32
    Language
    German
    • manuscript contains German-language lives of the saints: the “Lives of the Fathers” (Vitaspatrum) (pp. 5a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 403
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 12th century, 1150/1200
    Language
    Latin
    • This is a collection of liturgical works from the monastery of Disentis, written in the second half of
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 44
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    e-codices
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
    • This is a careful copy of Hilary’s De fide sive de trinitate with a page with a decorative ‬initial‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 91
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century (cf. A. Dufour) or around 1460 (cf. B. Gagnebin)
    Language
    French, Latin
    • With a beautiful binding à la "Du Seuil", this 15th century manuscript contains the Policraticus (The
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1004
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1432-1436
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
    • George; in addition to a translation of the life of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 438
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (1463–1491?)
    Language
    Latin
    • The manuscript’s principal part consists of a Psalter with the Psalms in biblical order, as well as several
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 732
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The codex contains, among other items, a copy of the Lex Alamannorum (foundation law of the Alamanni)
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 29329.1
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    14th century, around 1312
    Language
    Latin
    • Fragment of page f. 158a verso from the gradual of St.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
    • In his De bello Peloponensium, Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 94
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    e-codices
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
    • At once a travel memoir and a geography book, the Voyages by John Mandeville, probably written around
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 114
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript, written in a humanistic script, contains the Epigrammata by Martial (ca. 40- ca. 102
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan, Ab 47
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    e-codices
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan
    Date
    16th century, 1567
    Language
    Romansch language
    • The scribe is Conradin Planta, probably a relative: Gian Travers was married to Anna Planta.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 86
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The Ilias Latina, copied on paper during the 14th century, is a Latin adaptation of the great epic by