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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q 1.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1473
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Printed in Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz in 1473.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. graec. 449
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1464/1465
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/grc
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    • influence of Italian humanism and of his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, the Archbishop of Esztergom
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 95
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1399
    Language
    lat
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    • Arnold of Liège OP
    • William of Tyre
    • partibus transmarinis gestarum, and Arnold of Liège OP (fl. 1290-1310), Alphabetum narrationum, both
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 896
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1559
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ger
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    • The first volume (Cgm 895) of the complete work comprises six books and deals with the origin of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 8° 28
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1401–1425
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Contents: Abridgment of the chapter on chronology (IV.18) in Isaac Israeli's Sefer Yesod ʻOlam (ff.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 91
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1450 - 1499
    Language
    frm
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    • of the fifteenth-century French romance of Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres (the other being in Brussels
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17011
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    um 860
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • The text and the choice of prologues correspond with those in older Salzburg manuscripts and can be traced
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 168
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • This work contains two tracts: the Livre des deduis, a handbook on hunting, and the Songe de Pestilence
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    Oxford. Magdalen College, Library, Arch.D.4.29
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Magdalen College, Library
    Date
    1600–1604
    Language
    English
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    • Contents: The first booke of songes or ayres of foure partes with tableture for the lute [London
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 959
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    12uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Summary:A single leaf containing the propers for the 22nd and part of the
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 26
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • the persons and incidents in their lives, and also signifying their deaths, set beside the text passages
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • Start of text: epistle to 'Lityl lowys my sone' on the use of the astrolabe.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 726
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of the 14th / first half of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • Southwestern region of German
    • Schwabenspiegel (mirror of the Swabians), common law, articles 1-86 (col. 7a-58a), articles 155-219 (
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, N I 2:148b
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Old Church Slavonic
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    • Fragment from a Glagolitic breviary with texts for August 13th and 14th; based on the script, it can
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 38
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    2. Hälfte 14. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gmh
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    • and parish priest of St.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 5(1
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1233
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/heb
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    • The text, written in three columns, does not cover the Book of Proverbs and does not contain the text
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Riant 9
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1241
    Language
    lat
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • ends with dedication of church; and sanctoral (28 May-30 Nov.).
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6204
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    2. Hälfte 11. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • second half of the 11th century, contains portraits of the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke (the
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 23343
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    gegen 1100
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • For stylistic reasons, e.g., the rather flat architectural frames and the linear style of the figural
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS a.3 (West Table)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    c. 1598
    Language
    English
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    • England and Netherlands
    • The earliest known sea atlas by a Brit and the earliest known British charts of the East.