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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 57
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Copied in 1378 by Francesco di maestro Tura of Cesena, who included both a date and a signature at the
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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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    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, 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3520
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1. Viertel 14. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Arnold of Villanova (b. c. 1240, d. 1311), physician and reformer
    • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (b. 854, d. 925), physician, alchemist and philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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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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    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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    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
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 967
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    11uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Summary:A single leaf containing the end of Ep. 91 (PL 33. 313-18) and beginning
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1138
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    13./14. Jh
    Language
    lat
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    • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (b. 854, d. 925), physician, alchemist and philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 177
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • With white ivy vinestem initials, marginalia, and an unidentified coat of arms (f. 1r), illuminated