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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 352/1-2
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    German, Alemannic
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    • The Speculum humanae salvations is a work consisting of texts and illustrations of Biblical content.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 726
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    e-codices
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    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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 42
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1455-1460
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • The Edelstein contained in this manuscript consists of 100 fables, composed around 1330 by the Bernese
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A V 41
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, around 1370
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • This manuscript was produced in the Southern Alemannic-speaking region around 1370; it contains the corpus
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 125
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, second third of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • This small booklet contains the “Dialogue with Mary,” attributed to Anselm of Canterbury.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, N I 3:89
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 1st quarter of the 13th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • The Imperial Chronicle is the most successful 12th century German text.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 84
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, 1432
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • This manuscript was written by Johannes Molitor of Winterthur and is dated 2 December 1432.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 194
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    14th century, last quarter of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic, Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • This small, thin booklet contains a series of prayers for personal use by a woman.
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 19
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    e-codices
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    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau
    Date
    15th century, around 1450
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • The Frauenfeld history Bible (“Historienbibel”) was completed in about 1450 in the atelier of Diebold
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 627
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin, Alemannic, German
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    • Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland) (?)
    • A copy of the work Bellum Judaicum (the Jewish War) by the Jewish author Flavius Josephus (1st century
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 65
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, 1515
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • The book was written by Sister Dorothea Schermann at the Gnadental Convent of the Poor Clares (Basel)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1908
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • cycle of sermons in High Alemannic, for which this manuscript is the only textual witness.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B VIII 27
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1300
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • This manuscript from the lay library of (the Carthusian Monastery of) Basel transmits two texts from
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 207
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, 1505
    Language
    Alemannic, Latin
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    • This collection of prayers, which was in use in the Hermetschwil nuns’ convent since the 17th century
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, O I 18
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    1471
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil, city clerk of Basel, owned a large collection of incunabula of mostly German
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 83
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, last third of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • This 14th century codex is one of seven surviving manuscripts that preserve in its entirety the Eneasroman
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Fragm. Fab. IV
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers)
    Date
    14th century, first third of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • A parchment double leaf containing a fragment of a Passion Play in German, including neumes.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 208
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, first quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • This prayer book from the first quarter of the 15th century, written in High Alemannic dialect, contains
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, N I 6:50
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1300
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • These fours strips of parchment were detached from a vocabulary manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 33
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • It contains the dialogue with Mary, attributed to Anselm of Canterbury, in Alemannic dialect.