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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 335
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, between 1378 and 1386
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Engelberg (parts also from Stans?)
    • Andreas took the two complementary volumes Cod. 335 and Cod. 336 (a third volume may have been lost)
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 336
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, between 1378 and 1386
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Engelberg (parts also from Stans?)
    • Scribes have been identified as the latter Johannes von Bolsenheim, Prior of Engelberg, and the clerk
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel, Cod. H137
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
    Date
    17th century, 1694
    Language
    German
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    • For a long time, gingerbread was also considered to have medicinal properties.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A VII 68
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, Middle/2nd half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • small, thick paper and parchment manuscript from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel must have
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Livre des bourgeois 1 / Bürgerbuch 1
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, 1341-1416
    Language
    Latin, German, French
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    • these registers are the most important ones; they cover the period from 1341 to 1769 and are presented here
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 175
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • On p. 356 there is a pen sketch of a man with sword and shield; an almost identical figure can also be
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Livre des bourgeois 2 / Bürgerbuch 2
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    e-codices
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 1416-1769
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • these registers are the most important ones; they cover the period from 1341 to 1769 and are presented here
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1878
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, around 1400
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • "Engelberger Predigten" (Engelberg Homilies, earlier also known as "Engelberger Prediger")
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 9
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 9th/10th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Among the explanations of words, which are predominately in Latin, there are also 178 Old High German
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 586
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German
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    • Otmar (the latter bound into the wrong location in the manuscript; the portraits of Gallus and Magnus have
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1014
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • Around 1500, this composite manuscript of theological-mystical content, which may have originated in
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv, PA 261
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
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    • The author probably did not come from an academic background, but must rather have been a medical practitioner
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 110
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German
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    • The manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, is also called the Egino-Codex and is supposed
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 957
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    German
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    • The treatise also reports Emperor Sigismund’s alleged vision, according to which a priest-king Frederick
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 276
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half and middle of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Composite manuscript with theological works by Alcuin of York; also contains excerpts from Augustine’
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1344
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, early 16th century (?)
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • Johannes may have been a monk from Tennenbach, the Cistercian monastery which had responsibility for
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 272
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, beginning of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Also included in the manuscript are the Epitaphium Alcuini (carm. 123) and Alcuin’s Carmen 112 Dum sedeas
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 62
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, second half of the 14th century
    Language
    Bavarian, German
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    • Spiritual Poems · Hartmann von Aue: Gregorius · Frauenlob: Mary's Song (also called Frauenlob's Song
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 525
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, 13th/14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Four red and bleu fleuronné initials from the underwriting have survived (p. 372, 373 and 375).
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 752
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, around 900
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • This manuscript also includes (on page 82) a magic sphere for predicting life and death.