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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B257
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1719
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • Hertz ben Leib Darmstadt of Frankfurt am Main and contains pen drawings by Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses from
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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?)
    • One sermon was written, in 1383 at the lastest, by the parish priest Bartholomäus Fridower from Stans
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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?)
    • The third volume, now missing materials from the end, of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 69
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, 1756 and 18th-19th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • The author is the famous scribe and illustrator Simmel ben Moses from Polna (active between 1714 and
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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.74
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • In November 1953 the leaf was purchased from the J.H. Wade Fund for the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • The area below the title shows the Israelites wandering through the desert and manna falling from heaven
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A IX 92
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1399-1400
    Language
    Latin
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
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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
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • one with birds at the bottom, text columns are interspersed with eight elegant full-length characters from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B316
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1751
    Language
    Latin
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • is signed by the well-known Jewish scribe-artist Aaron Wolf Herlingen, the creator of the Haggadah from
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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
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • 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, B344
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • Aaron Wolf Herlingen wrote and illustrated the title page, Meschullam Simmel ben Moses from Polná created
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 457
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gall (841-872); however, the presentation dedication is missing from the front matter.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 448
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, around 1432 / after 1446
    Language
    Latin
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    • Liber Ordinarius from the second quarter of the 15th century with liturgical instructions for the mass
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B IX 20
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 3rd quarter of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • This manuscript from the third quarter of the 14th century belonged to the library of the lay brothers
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 165
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Virgil’s text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan, Statuten 1619
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    e-codices
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    Samedan. Chesa Planta Samedan
    Date
    17th century, 1619
    Language
    Romansch language
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    • This manuscript first contains the translation of the Latin statutes of the district of Upper Engadine from
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 182
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    e-codices
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century
    Language
    French
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    • At the behest of Jeanne de Laval, wife of King René I. of Anjou, a cleric from Angers completed a prose
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 47
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    e-codices
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript is listed in the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, RCap 14
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1431
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript from the library of the Capuchin monastery of Sion contains the Manipulus curatorum,
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables