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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 111
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    15th century, about 1488
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • This book of hours was a present from the Parisian publisher Anthoine Vérard to the French King Charles
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C 10i
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Gallen Passionarius Maior, or Great Passion, a collection of 92 legends of the saints assembled by monks
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 266
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of the exegetical works De tabernaculo and De templo as well as Quaestiones in libros regum by
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 93
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Copies of assorted shorter sermons in Latin by Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), some of them incomplete, including
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 429
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • It contains a collection of readings for the nocturns.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 456
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, 10th/11th centuries
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • The sole surviving copy of the Martyrologium by the St. St.
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. D 77b
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 1637-73
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Volume 8 in a series originally consisting of eight volumes by St. St. Gall monk P.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 65
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • A list of chapters (1r-3r, 65v-67r, 103v-104v) precedes each of the three books.
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    Estavayer-le-Lac. Paroisse catholique Saint-Laurent, Volume III
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    e-codices
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    Estavayer-le-Lac. Paroisse catholique Saint-Laurent
    Date
    15th century, around 1489/1490
    Language
    Latin
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    • Cathedral of St. Vincent (Switzerland)
    • the liturgy of the Collegiate Church of St.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, E III 15
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, around 1470-1488
    Language
    Latin
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    • Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • This manuscript was owned by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide, who donated it to the Carthusian Monastery of
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 346(284)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second third of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340
    • This manuscript contains Eusebius of Caesarea’s Historia ecclesiastica.
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. D 76c
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 1637-73
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Volume 4 in a series originally consisting of eight volumes by St. St. Gall monk P.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XXX
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers)
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Sang. 722, this manuscript contains an important, but incomplete, copy of the Lex Romana Curiensis, a
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    Estavayer-le-Lac. Paroisse catholique Saint-Laurent, Volume II
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    e-codices
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    Estavayer-le-Lac. Paroisse catholique Saint-Laurent
    Date
    15th century, around 1489/1490
    Language
    Latin
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    • Cathedral of St. Vincent (Switzerland)
    • of the Collegiate Church of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 961
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1465, 1467
    Language
    German
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    • Community of Benedictine nuns (Switzerland)
    • and 1467 (p. 181) and perhaps written by eight different hands, belonged to the Benedictine Convent of
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 31
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    e-codices
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • This single-column copy of five texts by Augustine is undecorated except for an initial with scroll ornamentation
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485
    Language
    French
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    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • At the end of the 1480s Gaston Febus wrote a tract, in French and in prose, on hunting, known under the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This book of hours in the Parisian fashion is richly illuminated and was made for the diocese of Nantes
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B III 2
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 9th century, 9th / 10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • This manuscript contains the homilary of Paulus Diaconus for the winter season and was written and illustrated
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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)
    • of Bern’s Collegiate Church of St.