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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Montagu e. 9
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    after 1515
    Language
    Latin
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    • Written for Guilano de Medici, in early humanistic script.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Riant 39
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1492
    Language
    lat
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    • Notes:Written in hybrida script with colored initials in green (some blank spaces left for
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. L 3.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1471
    Language
    Latin
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    • ChristophorusValdarfer, [not after 9 Nov.] 1471)This leaf features a versified colophon by Ludovius Carbo for
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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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    • Contents:Proper lections for individual saints' days, beginning with St.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 45.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1786
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Heraldry was often used for presentation bindings, to flatter the recipient.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 30.13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c. 1520]
    Language
    Italian
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    • Blanchellus, In Pauli Veneti logicam commentum cum questionibus nonnullis (Venice: Johannes Leoviler, for
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 71
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1425
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    • Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh Nevukhim) (ff. 19r-301v).
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Gr 17
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    149u
    Language
    grc
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    • Printers' copy for A. Manuzio's edition of Aristotle (1495-8).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 23.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1542
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bound for the young Genoese patrician Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (c. 1524–c. 1612).
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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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    • At the end of the manuscript is an assortment of formulas for medical preparations.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 5th century, 5th century (lower script) / 8th century (upper script)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Order of Service for the Monastery of St. Gall in the Directorium of 1583
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. d. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • The very square vine-stem initial is akin to some found in the manuscripts written for Poggio in the
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8e siècle, 9e siècle, 8e - 9e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Order of Service for the Monastery of St. Gall in the Directorium of 1583
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    Bulle. Musée gruérien, 383
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bulle. Musée gruérien
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • It is valuable evidence of a ritual for women who take their vows.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B331
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This small-format manuscript from the 17th century contains hymnal prayers, poems and blessings for the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 141
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1465
    Language
    Italian
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    • ), rabbit, stag couchant, two putti blowing long horns, two putti flanking laurel wreath with blank for
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 97
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Numerous marginal glosses, for the most part contemporaneous with the creation of this copy of the manuscript
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1468
    Language
    German
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    • For illustrations Schlüsselfelder used early Italian copperplate engravings portraying the cardinal virtues
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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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    • The Elegia, a prose work written by Boccaccio in his youth, praised for the subtlety of its psychological
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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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    • It was purchased in Venice in 1719 for Thomas Coke (1697-1759), of Holkham Hall.