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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 336
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, between 1378 and 1386
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • now missing materials from the end, of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of fascicle groups and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 32
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Cistercian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) wrote between 1135 and 1153 the 86 sermons on the
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 19
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • On 4r, a line above the text attributes the volume to Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 335
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, between 1378 and 1386
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The first volume of a codicologically heterogeneous composite of fascicle groups and individual leaves
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 48
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This Codex contains Jerome's exposition of the Gospels of Matthew (1v-103r) and Mark (103v-128v).
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 2
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • This codex contains over a hundred lives of the saints and acts of the martyrs, most of them accompanied
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 16
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • On 1r, Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) dedicates the codex in verse to the Virgin Mary, the monastery's
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 65
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Rubricated lines and initials divide the rest of the text.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1007
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • discovered in 1963 along with 9 other volumes during construction work in the monastery of Engelberg. 1v-2r and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • contains, among other items, noteworthy initials in the Engelberg book decoration style of the time and
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 142
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 2nd half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • is a witness of the so-called Basilius-version of the commentary on the Benedictine Rule, attributed to
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 90
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • -Augustine 1r-6v and Peter Damian 6v-10r), and after it comes a collection of opinions of and excerpts
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 87
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • An artistically decorated initial in red, black and green ink, followed by a line in decorative capitals
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 102
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The chants are written in two columns and are generously rubricated.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 124
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    e-codices
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    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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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 141
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Middle High German, German, Latin
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    • The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom ("Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit") by Dominican monk and mystic Henry
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 138
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The text of both works probably comes from the same hand, and is accompanied throughout by numerous rubricated
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 14
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 1178-1223
    Language
    Latin
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    • A large initial with figurative motifs in red-brown and blank ink begins each book; in the text that
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 88
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The black-brown ink script appears uniform and balanced.