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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 271
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    14uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Bound in 19th-cent. half brown morocco and marbled paper covers.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gr. class. b. 1 (P)/1-12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    before AD 79
    Language
    Greek
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • text, in a roll buried and carbonized in the library of a villa at Herculaneum in AD 79, at the eruption
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 981
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:The verso of no. 2 shows music on a large red 4-line staff and text
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce Bindings a. 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italian 15th-century incised leather cover with the arms of Visconti and Sforza adopted by Francesco
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • decoration consists of numerous initials with bianchi girari (white vine scroll), with side borders and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 302
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • EXPLICIT LIBER SEXTUS DE BELLO GALLICO. 7-line gold initial Q(VI) with white-stem interlace on red, green and
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 761
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    15 Maio 1488
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1551
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    12. Jh. ; 15. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal. lat. 888
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    12.-15. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 1004
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Paul holding book and sword.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1350–1375
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Dante sitting asleep on a hillside at the start of the Inferno (p. 1); a large 'puzzle' initial in red and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 987
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Probable identification of the text: the cutting is pasted onto a paper backing and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O inf. 1.31(1)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1499
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript inscription records that Christoph Scheurl purchased this book in the year of jubilee in Rome and
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 689
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    14 Fevreiro 1483/1484
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 989
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    14uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Probable identification of the text: the cutting is pasted onto a paper backing and
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1119
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    13./14. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, 980-1037, also known as Avicenna
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 983
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1400
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • :The versos show music on a large 4-line red staff with text in a gothic rotunda hand and
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    aft. 1400
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Gothic liturgical script; with text and Gregorian chant notation.
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 811
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    31 Outubro 1492
    Language
    Latin
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    • Alfonso X, King of Castile and León 1221-1284
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is set between alternating straight and spiral marble columns.