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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 343d
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • format history Bible (“Historienbibel”) is illustrated throughout in an artistic style characteristic of
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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
    • The Edelstein contained in this manuscript consists of 100 fables, composed around 1330 by the Bernese
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 216
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, first quarter of the 16th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • This prayer book is from the first quarter of the 16th century and was meant for a woman.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 207
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, 1505
    Language
    Alemannic, Latin
    • This collection of prayers, which was in use in the Hermetschwil nuns’ convent since the 17th century
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S II 43
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    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • The Solothurn history Bible (“Historienbibel”) was created in 1460 in the workshop of Diebold Lauber
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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
    • This manuscript from the lay library of (the Carthusian Monastery of) Basel transmits two texts from
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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
    • These fours strips of parchment were detached from a vocabulary manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurF 31a
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, middle of the 13th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • The Osterspiel von Muri (Easter Play of Muri) is the oldest known rhyming dramatic piece in German.
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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
    • This fragment from Basel is from the first quarter of the 13th century and contains version B in Alemannic
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. A 5a 1
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, first quarter of the 16th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • Joined to this is a collection of private prayers.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1878
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, around 1400
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • A copy of the so-called Engelberger Predigten.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 196
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    16th century, second half of the 16th century, 1517
    Language
    Alemannic
    • This manuscript consists of two originally separate parts: The first part contains various prayers; the
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 28
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, around 1420
    Language
    Alemannic
    • This manuscript, a plenarium, was donated to Hermetschwil Abbey in 1430 by Götz Vasnacht, patron of Zufikon
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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
    • This prayer book from the first quarter of the 15th century, written in High Alemannic dialect, contains
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 398
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    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    around 1560
    Language
    Alemannic, German
    • other spiritual texts such as prayers, meditations, prophecies, legends (among others about Nicholas of
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau, AG 2.38
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    e-codices
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    Aarau. Staatsarchiv Aargau
    Date
    15th century, 1454
    Language
    Alemannic
    • In the 15th century, one of the most popular devotional works was the guide to Christian life by the
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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
    • manuscript contains the 14 so-called Hermetschwiler Predigten on pp. 1-140; it is a 13th century cycle of
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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
    • This small, thin booklet contains a series of prayers for personal use by a woman.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 209
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • This manuscript is a collection of German-language prayers, written mostly for a female worshipper.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 197
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    e-codices
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of the 14th century / beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic
    • It has a limp binding of red leather.