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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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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • It contains simple red initials, and rarely small, polychromatic initials decorated with bulb motifs
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • contains, among other items, noteworthy initials in the Engelberg book decoration style of the time and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 19
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • decorative initials appear against a coloured background, in accordance with the later Engelberg style (24v and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 76
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    e-codices
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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
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 90
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • -Augustine 1r-6v and Peter Damian 6v-10r), and after it comes a collection of opinions of and excerpts
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 135
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This codex contains on V3-7r the Sermo acephalus de iudicio and on 7r-43r the Monita of the Church Doctor
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 17
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    e-codices
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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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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154
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    e-codices
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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. 87
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • An artistically decorated initial in red, black and green ink, followed by a line in decorative capitals
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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. 43
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • carefully produced codex, which has only a leather binding, is decorated with artistic initials in red and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 34
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, second half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • 1090-1153), sermons which, according to the introductory lines on 1v, Bernard gave to his disciples and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1003
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 12th/13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The mostly neumed Mass chants for the church year and for the saints’ days (ff. 3v-83v are supplemented
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1005
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The hand and the decoration correspond to those characteristic of the Frowin volumes: the text is in
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 64
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • A small decorative initial in blue, green, and red ink, as is typical of the library of Frowin, introduces
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 89
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 12th century, 9th century; 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • codex begins with works of Augustine: 1r-27v Liber de gratia et libero arbitrio, 28r-63r letters from and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 33
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, second half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • With regards to decoration, there are many decorative initials with runner- and bulb-motifs on a colorful
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 124
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1359
    Language
    Middle High German, German, Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The oldest surviving collection of German sermons by the Strasbourg Dominican and mystic Johannes Tauler
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 139
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • two-lined dedicatory verse on 1r names Abbot Frowin (1143-1178) as having commissioned the Engelberg copy, and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 18
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • It is adorned with two figurated initials (1v and 60v) and decorative initials in red ink.