Project | Demos | Documentation

Contribute to Biblissima+

Subscribe to our newsletter

Contact us

3490 results

  • Thumbnail
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 596
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, around 1540
    Language
    Modern Greek
    View entry
    • At the end of the 19th century Karl Praechter (1858-1933), an instructor and later, from 1889 to 1907
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 43
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    English
    View entry
    • This parchment manuscript from the end of the 15th century contains the "Chronicle of London" as well
  • Thumbnail
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 755
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
    View entry
    • instructions for bloodletting (pp. 169-184), German and Latin incantations (pp. 185-186), excerpts from
  • Thumbnail
    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 279
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    0800 - 0999
    Language
    lat
    View entry
    • The textual content of the manuscript is derived from Irish and Breton sources; the contents include
  • Thumbnail
    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 C IV
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, ang, enm
    View entry
    • This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the
  • Thumbnail
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    aft. 1400
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • One illumination is copied from Gentile de Fabriano's "Adoration of the Magi; one copied from Fra Filippo
  • Thumbnail
    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, AF A2, Vol. 2
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Neuchâtel. Bibliothèque publique et universitaire
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • Numerous additions from the 14th and 15th century attest to its use at Notre-Dame Abbey in Neuchâtel.
  • Thumbnail
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 947
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German, Latin
    View entry
    • binding contains as its main part (pp. 1-88; index p. 93) alphabetically ordered excerpts in Latin from
  • Thumbnail
    Durham. Cathedral Library, MS. A.II.8
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. Cathedral Library
    Date
    early 13th century
    View entry
    • medieval flyleaves (f.4-5); plus raised pastedowns and fly- and endleaves (f.1-3 and 292-4) recycled from
  • Thumbnail
    London. British Library, Arundel MS 173
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    View entry
    • Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-
  • Thumbnail
    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second quarter (c. 1433-1438)
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • Contains tables from 1433 and 1438.
  • Thumbnail
    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 99
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Frauenfeld. Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau
    Date
    17th century, between 1629 and 1638
    Language
    German
    View entry
    • Chronicle of Einsiedeln Abbey by Heinrich Murer (1588-1638, from 1614 on a Conventual at the Carthusian
  • Thumbnail
    Trogen. Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, CM Ms. 9
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Trogen. Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden
    Date
    16th century, second quarter of the 16th century
    Language
    Middle Dutch
    View entry
    • unusual textual object contains three pastiches of cut-out colored initials and twelve Flemish miniatures from
  • Thumbnail
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A IX 49
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 1397
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • Gelnhausen’s Epistula concordiae originally were part of a composite manuscript of theological content from
  • Thumbnail
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B IV 8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • This volume from the Dominican Monastery of Basel contains the second part (Macula to Zona) of the Distinctiones
  • Thumbnail
    Oxford. Corpus Christi college, Library, MS 255A
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Corpus Christi college, Library
    Date
    901–1299
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • Part of 17 leaves from two different books, removed in 1929 from the front of MS 255, a volume of collectanea
  • Thumbnail
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 286
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin, German
    View entry
    • The manuscript also contains a letter from Charlemagne to Alcuin from 798 as well as Canon 145 of the
  • Thumbnail
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 658
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1465
    Language
    Middle High German, German, Alemannic
    View entry
    • the First Crusade (1095/96-1099; Historia Hierosolymitana), composed by the monk Robertus Monachus from
  • Thumbnail
    Durham. University Library, Add.MS. 1950/C/33
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. University Library
    Date
    1459
    Language
    Latin
    View entry
    • Single leaf removed from a copy of the third decade of Livy's Ab urbe condita written by Giacomo Curlo
  • Thumbnail
    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 94
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
    View entry
    • This copy, S 94 from the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son