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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, 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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    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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    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(?)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Holk. c.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The title-page is hand-finished, and displays a coat of arms, probably that of the Salom family of Padua
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • his youth, praised for the subtlety of its psychological approach, mixes autobiographical elements and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 86
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • initials, some of which incorporate figures, especially that of a muse, clad in a dress covered with stars and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 47
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • grisaille with gold highlights is framed by motifs in the manner of antiquity with trophies, sphinxes and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 749
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 15th century, second half of the 13th century – first half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • primarily in the second half of the 13th century or in the first half of the 14th century in Italy and
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03359
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    173-?
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Leaves [1-3] and [124] verso-[126] in a later hand.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The frontispiece of this manuscript is richly decorated with foliage in all four margins and initials
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cap. Rés. 527
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Fribourg/Freiburg. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • through whom the manuscript reached Fribourg before becoming part of the library of the Capuchins, and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 44
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The "bianchi girari" (white vine) book decoration and the illuminated initial capitals which mark the
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 56
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    12de - 13de eeuw; Ff: 2v-100v: c. 1201-c. 1225; ff. 101r-126v: c. 1176-c. 1200; ff. 127r-189r: c. 1201-c. 1225 (cf. Janzen 2019)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Folios 1 and 2 are flyleaves.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 953
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    11uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Written in Italy in a large minuscule hand in brown ink in 22 long lines, two large initials in red and