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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M II
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    e-codices
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    Wil. Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Dominican Convent of St. Katharina (Switzerland) (?)
    • This parchment manuscript written about the end of the 15th century, with musical notation and book decoration
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51690.3
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • One of six parchment leaves from a book of hours, written in bastarda and datable to the second half
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51690.5
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • One of six parchment leaves from a book of hours, written in bastarda and datable to the second half
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, LM 51702
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    Zürich. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Parchment fragment from a Book of Hours of French origin, which contains a part of the Office of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 16th century (ca. 1513-1521)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Libri, Guglielmo, Unspecified, Count, of Add MS 38128
    • Apollinaris Sidonius, Gaius Sollius Modestus, c 430-c 487, Saint, Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A VI 22
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, second half of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • William of Ockham OFM (attrib.)
    • Since the 13th century the Quatuor libri sententiarum, a collection of teachings of the church fathers
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 191(277)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, 8th / 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
    • Bernold of Constance
    • Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C 60
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, around 900-910
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • readings for the full church year, written and decorated with prominent initial capitals by contemporaries of
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 371
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, third quarter of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Gall, illustrated with a portrait of the epistle-writer Saint Paul and five painted Christological miniatures
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 34
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Convent of Interlaken (Switzerland) (?)
    • James of Voragine’s Golden Legend, one of the most copied texts of the Middle Ages, appears here in a
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 39
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first third of the 9th century and last quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Books of the Old Testament from the time of the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz (ca. 820-840)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Allemanian copy of the Collectio Canonum Hibernesis from the first half of the 9th century.
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 19
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, around 1100
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • This copy of Augustine’s De civitate Dei, written in two columns and executed by several hands, has numerous
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 965
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1430/36 (parts by Kölner); 15th century (other parts)
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • Community of Benedictine nuns (Switzerland)
    • composite manuscript in Northeastern Swiss-Alemannic dialect was probably written for the community of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 8
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Heron of Alexandria
    • Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder and The quadrature of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 147
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bourges, workshop of Jean Colombe
    • This miniature book of hours (11.5 x 7 cm) for use in Rome was probably made in Bourges by the Master
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 26
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1301-1330
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • Abbey of Malmesbury
    • Short Psalter from the early 14th century, produced in the now dissolved west English Abbey of Malmesbury
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 18
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Abbey of Tongerloo, Diocese of Cambrai, Deanery of Antwerp
    • In the middle of the 12th century the Latin works of Statius and Virgil as well as adaptations of Homer
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 10th century (before 950)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of the four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome, produced in the Abbey of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 818
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A copy of Aristotle's Categoriae (Categories) and De interpretatione (On interpretation) in Latin with