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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 278
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
    • This rare Judeo-Arabic fragment is from the Kitab al-Hidaya ila Faraiḍ al-Qulub (Guide to the Duties of
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1394
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century, 5th century, 4th century, 4th century / 5th century / 10th century / 11th century / 9th-15th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German, Hebrew
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Aldhelm of Sherborne, c 639-709, Saint, Bishop of Sherborne
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B317
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1739
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Yosef ben David, of Leipnik
    • Altona, copied and decorated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik
    • It was illustrated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in 1739.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B115
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th–15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Isaac ben Joseph, of Corbeil
    • Isaac of Corbeil († 1280) is the author of this halakhic Small Book of Commandments also known as Sefer
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B262
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • [Central or Northern Europe], copied and decorated by Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch
    • [Central or Northern Europe], copied and decorated by Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch
    • This Passover Haggadah with a Yiddish translation of the hymn Had Gadya (f. 23r) was copied and illustrated
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1480
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1739
    Language
    Latin, Greek, Hebrew
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • It was presented to the abbott in 1739 on the occasion of his name day by the students of the monastery
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek, Ms. D 74
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 1633
    Language
    Latin, Hebrew
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Sermons and admonitions by the novice master of the monastery of St. Gall (P. Anton Widenmann?)
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B274
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 1288
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Moses ben Jacob, of Coucy
    • This is the earliest known manuscript of Moses of Coucy's classic legal code and also the earliest dated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B257
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1719
    Language
    Hebrew
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • The anonymous hymn of praise to the Creator Perek schira has been preserved in hundreds of manuscripts
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B45
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, before 1611
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Hebron (The Land of Israel), Solomon Adeni
    • Shelomo bar Joshua Adeni (1567-1625) was a Jewish scholar who devoted himself primarily to the study of
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
    • Pressburg, Judah Leib ben Meir of Glogau
    • The fast day Yom Kippur Katan has its origin in the holiday of Rosh Hodesh, which in biblical times marked
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
    • copied and decorated by Moses Judah Leib ben Wolf Broda of Trebitsch
    • copied and decorated by Moses Judah Leib ben Wolf Broda of Trebitsch
    • The psalms in this manuscript are subdivided according to the days of the week on which they are to be
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This scroll contains one of the most finely executed series of illustrations to be found in decorated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B344
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This miniature prayer book is the result of a unique collaboration of two of the most eminent Viennese
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B173
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1716
    Language
    Hebrew
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • The titel of this mohel book (circumcision book) from 1716 is Book of the Lord’s Mystery with the [commentary
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This manuscript is a masterpiece of Jewish book art by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, an artist born around 1700
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 69
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, 1756 and 18th-19th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • between 1714 and 1756), who produced about thirty dated manuscripts that have survived until today, of
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B247
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1670-1671
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • This manuscript contains an Evronot ("Rules for Calculation of the Calendar").
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • He considered Kabbalah neither as a form of gnosis nor as a kind of theosophical theory that concentrates
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [around 1470]
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • This manuscript contains the seven chapters of the aphorisms of Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation