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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • The circumstances surrounding this stash – perhaps protection from theft or some other threat – are unknown
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    Saint-Maurice. Abbaye de Saint-Maurice, DIV 3/0/40
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    Saint-Maurice. Abbaye de Saint-Maurice
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Artificial composite manuscript from the 15th century.
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 33
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, around 1100
    Language
    Latin
    • Alcuin (commentary on Genesis); the manuscript is listed in the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 609
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 17th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
    • examples by Tarquinio Merula, Martin Benn, Jakob Bannwart (organ music) and Isabella Leonarda (motets from
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 540
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1517 (?)
    Language
    Latin
    • ornamental initials, among them six portrayals of figures) is by the illuminator Nikolaus Bertschi from
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 676
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 1080/1100
    Language
    Latin
    • Rabanus Maurus ad Heribaldum, the sixth book of the Poenitentiales by Halitgar of Cambrai, excerpts from
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A II 4
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1400-1401
    Language
    Latin
    • commentary Postilla super totam Bibliam by Nicholas of Lyra, which the secular priest Rüdiger Schopf from
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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
    • This 14th century manuscript from the chained library of the Dominican Convent of Basel contains commentaries
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M III 5
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 17th century (before 1682)
    Language
    Arabic
    • the 17th century on paper of European provenance and came to the university library in 1682 as a gift from
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 49
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • As is typical for the volumes from Frowin's library, the text is rendered throughout in black-brown ink
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 34
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (cf. F. Huot)
    Language
    French, Latin
    • This manuscript from the second half of the 15th century is a book of hours for use in the Abbey of St
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 54
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1420
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript dates from about 1420 and contains the "Conspiracy of Catilin " and the "Jugurthine War
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 95
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, first half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • It is one of the few liturgical manuscripts from this monastery that survived the Reformation.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 312
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Old High German, Latin
    • These glosses — usually together with interlinear glosses — have been added in a different ink from the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 98
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, middle of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • A northern French copy from the middle of the 9th century, probably not produced at the monastery of
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • The manuscript is a meticulous copy from the St. Gall exemplar, Cod. 621 (9th century).
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 139
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • The clean and balanced, slightly cursive script in brown ink comes from a single hand.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 16
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
    • As with most volumes from Frowin's library, tears and holes in the parchment are carefully stitched up
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 458
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1507
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • It contains, inter alia, numerous excerpts from the writings of Gertrud of Helfta and Mechthild of Hackeborn
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 191
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 11th century, 12th century, 9th century, 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • assembled by the Church father Jerome (347-420) De viris illustribus (a list of 135 Christian authors from