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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, 8° Z 71 Art.BS.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    between 1535 and 1546
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Title page with coat of arms and bishop's crozier.
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 552
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    12de eeuw; ca. 1125-1150
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur De inventione; (ff. 51r-52v) Menegaldi in Ciceronis Rhetorica glose; and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 251
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Written in a gothic bookhand, probably in Paris, with all texts ruled for 20 lines, and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3072
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (Institutes on the Noun, Pronoun and
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6914
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    13. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fro
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    • John Cassian (b. c. 360, d. c. 435), monk and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4597
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    800 - 833
    Language
    latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3839
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    13. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3749
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    2. Hälfte 13. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 52
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript was part of the collection of Paul and Alexandre Petau before it became the property
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 729
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, first quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • King Alarich II.), the Lex Salica (book of Germanic law of Chlodwig, founder of the Frankish kingdom), and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 124
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gough Drawings Gaignières 16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1700
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • is a collection mainly of paintings of coats of arms, including scenes illustrating family mottoes and
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 252
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    14de eeuw
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Other parts of the Great Mirror are the Speculum Naturale and the Speculum Historiale.
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 2695
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    XVe siècle (vers 1462-1465).
    Language
    français
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    • René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem (1409-1480)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • deux étoiles et d'un trèfle, correspondant au n° 687 de Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the XVIIth and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gough Drawings Gaignières 8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1700
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Most are done lightly in pencil, then overdrawn in ink, and coloured with watercolour.
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1179
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    2. Hälfte 14. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Arnold of Villanova (b. c. 1240, d. 1311), physician and reformer
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3835
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    13. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 345
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    before 1170
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Opening page of Tractatus magistri Hugonis in libro Ecclesiastis, with blue and red penwork initials.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 948
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    14uu
    Language
    fre
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:The French text is written in black and red littera bastarda.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gough Drawings Gaignières 13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1700
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Most are done lightly in pencil, then overdrawn in ink, and coloured with watercolour.