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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 102
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500-1510
    Language
    Latin, French, Ancient Greek
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    • In the small pictures on the borders, he tries to compete with Jean Bourdichon, who introduced realistic
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, NAL 1595
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1ere moitié du 9e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 1483
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    1476
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1245
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    2. Hälfte 14. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • 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
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19411
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Anfang 12. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • in 414 verses about the fight between the Christian final emperor, who wins the rule over the world, and
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 517
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    ca. 1480]
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Jac.to de S. Miguel»
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, 30621
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    [20 June 1492]
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    • Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 1243Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 195
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Rhetorica ad Herennium, and other text(s), BPL 195
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 127
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 12th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • . - Also contains a short poem on the city of Trier and an epitaph on St.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. turc. 428
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    um 1600
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ara, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ota, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/tur
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    • Once established in Ottoman book art, it continued to be appreciated until the end of the 19th century
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. turc. 157
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    996 [h.q.] [1587 oder 1588]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/tur, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ota
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    • Ausschluss der hebraeischen, arabischen und persischen [Joseph Aumer] München 1875 (Nachdruck 1970; auch online
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 115
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1326–1510
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    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Hébreu 182
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1292
    Language
    hébreu.
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    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 55
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • It is written in a single column, is clean and is written by several hands, with an incipit page (f.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 219
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Fine surround border of vine-stem interlace on multi-coloured ground framed in gold, with putto and birds
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VCQ 37
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Low Countries, southern part, 16th century, first half
    Language
    Dutch
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    • . - Parchment cover, no boards, with fore-edge flap (rectangular, closing back to front); tacketed.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 136 B
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    German regions ; Würzburg region, 12th/13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • . - Also contains 7 fragments (f. 126) of a 15th-century breviary, used to fill in a lacuna.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 31
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    14. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gmh
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    • The life and death of the hero Siegfried and Kriemhild's revenge are sung about in 39 Aventiuren (adventures
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    Durham. Cathedral Library, MS. B.II.9
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. Cathedral Library
    Date
    end of 11th century, [before 1096]
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Testament books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1509
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, middle
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Tendril with ivy and flowers extends down from the initial and across the lower border.