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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 46
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, 1546
    Language
    German
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This manuscript, an autograph, contains various writings on the monastic way of life and about monasticism
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 455
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Alan of Lille (b. c. 1128, d. c. 1202), theologian and poet
    • It contains German and Latin texts from the late middle ages as well as some interlinear and marginal
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 317
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 9th century, 10th century, 9th–10th centuries / around 1460
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Basil of Caesarea, 329-379, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea; also known as 'the Great'
    • This unimposing composite manuscript contains six works of differing content types and origins, bound
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1468
    Language
    German
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The paper is of Italian manufacture; the Lombard initials, the binding stamp and what remains of the
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 72
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, 1533 – ca. 1544/45
    Language
    German
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    • the Pope, and Kessler describes the old church.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 45
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, around 1545-1547
    Language
    German
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    • Eastern Switzerland (pp. 1-3) as well as of the “Oberbodensee” (pp. 201-227), that is, the villages and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 43
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, 1529/1530 until 1523
    Language
    German
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    • Gall humanist, reformer, and politician Joachim Vadian wrote a history of the abbey and city of St.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 302
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1300
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • time around 1300, with excellent miniatures illustrating the Chronicle of the World by Rudolf von Ems and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 352/1-2
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    German, Alemannic
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    • The Speculum humanae salvations is a work consisting of texts and illustrations of Biblical content.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 44
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    16th century, around 1545-1547
    Language
    German
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    • emphasis initially is on the history of the monastery; from the 13th century onward, what appears more and