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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BUR Q 4
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France?, 15th century, c. 1450
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • With blank space for a miniature and a historiated initial on f. 1r.
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, HM 114
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    [England, middle of the 15th century]
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500) [enm]
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Spelman, Henry, 1563/4-1641, historian and antiquary
    • Troilus and Criseyde.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Sherard 245
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1787–1794
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • 966 watercolours of plants collected in 5 volumes (see also MSS. Sherard 241-244).
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2818
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • The Passion of St Thomas Becket was composed by John of Salisbury between 1173 and 1176 and the Passion
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 1812
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula, northern part,1466-1467
    Language
    Latin
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    • Form: 1 volume, 152 leaves : pen-flourished and historiated initials ; 300x211
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. icon. 291
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Mitte 16. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fre
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    • England and Netherlands
    • banking empire and commissioned by the Augsburg patrician and book lover Johann Jakob Fugger were busy
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 1925
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    parts 1-2, 4, 6-7: France?, 12th century - part 3: France? ; British Isles? ; England?, 12th/13th century - part 5: France?, 13th century, second half
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • . - Also contains excerpts from papal bulls and decretals.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 264
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
    • Saladin (1169-1193 CE), the celebrated founder of the Ayyubid dynasty whose control extended over Egypt and
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 105 A
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula, 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Content: Also contains glosses and some lines of verse by the scribe.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
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    • brown sheepskin over wooden boards, decorated with a combination of individual tools depicting animals and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 47
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1341
    Language
    Latin
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • -Victor; composite volume, Germany, late 12th and early 14th centuries
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 863
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, ang
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    • This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written by scribes who also produced manuscripts
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2763
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The volume also includes Idyllium (Idyll)20 by the poet Ausonius (d. c. 395),added in a contemporary
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1416
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    2. Drittel 15. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl 813-861, astronomer; also known as Alfraganus
    • Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, 740-815, also known as Messahala
    • between Tournai and The Hague
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BUR Q 1
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, northern part? ; Low Countries, southern part?, 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Remnants of two eye-and-pin fastenings (long-strap, closing on front board face, catch plates and strap
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 109
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Low Countries, northern part, 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Content: Also contains the dedicatory letter to Jan van Arkel (1314-1378), bishop
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, LTK 174
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Low Countries, 14th/15th century, c. 1400
    Language
    Dutch
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    • . - Also contains transcripts by Willem Bilderdijk.
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    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, P 6 4°
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Luzern. Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek
    Date
    end of the 15th century
    Language
    German
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • This Book of Hours belonged to the town clerk and alderman of Solothurn, Franz Haffner (1609-1671).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 68
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    Latin
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 121
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • . - (ff. 26v and 56r-57r) Latin dictionary.