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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 23
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The decoration has rubricated incipits and explicits and different sorts of initials: simple ones in
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 67
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 1197-1223
    Language
    Latin
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    • the grammarian Julius Solinus from late antiquity; the texts are also known by the titles Polyhistor and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 68
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1178-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • Claudianus Mamertus (ca. 425-ca. 475), an apologetic treatise on the incorporeity of the soul, written to
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 47
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • contains the Venerable Bede's homilies on the Gospels, which are listed in a chapter-index on 2r-vv and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 49
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • According to the two-line poem on 1r, this manuscript was produced under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 56
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Ivo, bishop of Chartres and reformer, first wrote this work after 1095, but it spread extremely fast
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 37
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1178-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • John Cassian (b. c. 360, d. c. 435), monk and theologian
    • This copy of Cassian's Collationes contains on 1r a two-line ownership note attributing the codex to
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 21
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • In two lines of verse on 1r, Abbot Frowin of Engelberg dedicates the volume to the Mary, the patron saint
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 22
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • According to poem on 1r, the manuscript was produced under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 17
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript was probably begun under Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) and completed and decorated
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    [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 2 (Frowinus dispersus)
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    [sine loco], codices restituti
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • It contains the first (ff. 6r-99r) and second part (99r-193v), each divided into five books.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 20
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The subsequent three volumes are in codices 21, 22 and 23.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • mostly in dark-, sometimes light-brown ink comes from multiple hands, which all have their own careful and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The circumstances surrounding this stash – perhaps protection from theft or some other threat – are unknown
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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.74
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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The upper half of the illustrated side contains a naked Job and his three friends, the lower half shows
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 34
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, second half of the 12th century
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    Latin
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    • contains 150 sermons by the Cistercian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), sermons which, according to
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 3
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • This first part of the three-volume Engelberg Bible (together with Cod. 4 and Cod. 5) contains the Pentatuch
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 139
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • the letter, known as De consideratione of the Cistercian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (ca. 1090-1153) to
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • identifies the scribe as Richene, who also completed the volumes containing the Old Testament (Cod. 3 and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 76
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • prologues, the pages are laid out in three columns: the middle column contains the biblical text, the left and