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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 223
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1174
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Each saint's day begins with a larger initial in red and blue.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 283
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1450
    Language
    lat
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 96
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The first and the last three leaves contain a list of different objects sold to various persons.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 58
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The rounded Gothic script is the product of several different hands and the principal incipits are set
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien, 383
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bulle. Musée gruérien
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The work contains the rite of the profession of faith and of the consecration practiced on the occasion
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 18(576)
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, 8th/9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Commentary on the first 70 Psalms by Adelpertus and, at the end, a selection of proverbs by church fathers
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Byw. adds. 2/1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1478
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Jenson, 2 Jan. 1478)The ‘Lives of Famous Men’, by Plutarch (c. 46-120), were written in Greek, and
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.955
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    c.1320, um 1320
    Language
    lat
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    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B259
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • azar; a marriage contract, concluded in Parma in 1420 between Judah, son of Elhanan of Ascoli Piceno, and
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • ceremonial objects crafted of gold, such as this Esther scroll case, are exceptionally rare since synagogue and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 990
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Drawn in tempera and colored inks with gold leaf.Probably north Italian.MS Typ 990.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Gr. 5; Buchanan g.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, second half
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Upper cover and lower cover.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Byw. B 6.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Early Italian work in the interlaced lozenge and rectangle style later popular in Western Europe generally
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 479
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1380
    Language
    ita
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Initial letters are in red and blue with pen-work decoration.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. K 3.3a
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1495, 18th century
    Language
    Greek
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • He and another German, Heinrich Walther (1740s-1824?)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 99
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, 9th century (first half?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • in the Benedictine abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola (Province of Modena), though later than CB 98 and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O inf. 1.53
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1475-1478
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • the long stitches; original colour of binding was probably pale salmon pink; an example of a cheap and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 24
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    ita
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Original binding in brown morocco tooled in gilt and blind, with plaquettes stamped in silver on
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14086
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Ende 13./Anfang 14. 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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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1382
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    13./14. Jh. (I) ; 14. Jh. (II) ; 1. Hälfte 14. Jh. (III) ; 13. Jh. (IV) ; um 1400 (V) ; 15. Jh. (1458) (VI) ; Ende 14. Jh. (VII)
    Language
    lat
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    • Arnold of Villanova (b. c. 1240, d. 1311), physician and reformer
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)