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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    14th century, around 1340
    Language
    Bavarian, German
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    • This large-format manuscript from the 14th century contains the oldest version of an illustrated copy
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 214
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    7th century, 8th century, around 700
    Language
    Latin
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    • the church father Gregory the Great, produced in north-eastern France in a Merovingian chancel script from
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 80
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, around 1100
    Language
    Latin
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    • A copy of the first five books of Moses (the Pentateuch), the books of Joshua and Judges from the Old
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    Durham. University Library, Add.MS. 1950/A/18
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. University Library
    Date
    early 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Two separated pieces from the upper part of a single leaf; on the recto of the second piece a few letters
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 111
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 10th century (around 970?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • parchment manuscript contains a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius, followed by excerpts from
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    Müstair. Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Johann, XX/48 Nr. 16
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Müstair. Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Johann
    Date
    8th century, 9th century, around 800
    Language
    Latin
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    • Fragment of an excerpt from the Book of Leviticus, copied around 800.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 35110
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • the Venerable (b. c 673, d. 735), Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert). ff. 61r-88r: Extracts from
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 B XII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B XI 11
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    German
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    • This small-format composite manuscript is decorated simply; it is from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel
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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 139
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Fribourg/Freiburg. Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster
    Date
    15th century, before 1432
    Language
    Latin
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    • Collection of anonymous sermons (Quadragesima) from the early 14th century, containing 96 sermons.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. L 4.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1498-1502
    Language
    Latin
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    • of 18 and start of 19; end of 8 and start of 9, with manuscript additions by Guillaume Budé derived from
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 722.3
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • second quarter of the 9th century, containing Cetius Faventinus’ (late 3rd/early 4th century) extracts from
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, EL 26 C 9
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    ca. 1400-1410
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500) [enm]
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    • paintings of twenty-two of the fictional pilgrims who tell stories in order to enliven the journey from
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, 99934
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    1484
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    • Modern binding using a vellum manuscript leaf from an antiphonal as a wrapper.
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, 100548
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    1481
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    • Notes: Title from caption on leaf [a]1r.
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    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsMurF 84
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Aarau. Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1498-1499
    Language
    Latin
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    • This composite manuscript consists of an incunable from Freiburg i.
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    Oxford. Corpus Christi college, Library, MS 279B
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Corpus Christi college, Library
    Date
    1001–1099
    Language
    English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
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    • Contents: Imperfect Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, with probably three quires missing from the beginning
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B VIII 27
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Archives du Chapitre St. Nicolas/Kapitelsarchiv St. Niklaus, CSN III.3.1
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Fribourg/Freiburg. Archives de l'État de Fribourg/Staatsarchiv Freiburg
    Date
    16th century, 1511-1517
    Language
    Latin
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    • The binding, from about 1517, is from the workshop of the Franciscans in Fribourg.
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    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv, R 1.5.12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Solothurn. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    10th century, first half of the 10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The bifolium was used as binding for the Liber Cellae sub littera V, with accounts from 1526 to 1528