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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel, Cod. H87
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
    Date
    18th century
    Language
    German
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    • This copy of Burkart von Hallwyl's (1535-1598) pharmacopoeia is a collection of medications and recipes
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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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    • Gall) is an autograph; it describes the history of the Monastery of St.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 13
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, 1461
    Language
    German
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    • This manuscript is dated to 1461; it contains a version of Jacobus de Teramo's Belial in High Alemannic
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, B XI 11
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    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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 83
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, last third of the 14th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • This 14th century codex is one of seven surviving manuscripts that preserve in its entirety the Eneasroman
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. chart. 150
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • This voluminous breviary is dated 4 August 1491.
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S 490
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    e-codices
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    Solothurn. Zentralbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    German
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    • The Küchenmeisterei is one of the most widely known German language cookbooks.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 102
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Codex 102 is a twelfth century hymnbook with neumes.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 491
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, before 1498
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • A German-language allegory about indulgences (fol. 63v–67v) is inserted into this Latin Officium defunctorum
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel, Cod. H98
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    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
    Date
    16th century, 1571
    Language
    German
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    • This manuscript is a pharmacopoeia and recipe book.
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    Schaffhausen. Staatsarchiv, Urk. 238
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    Schaffhausen. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1300
    Language
    German
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    • The "Richtebrief", written in or about 1300 is the oldest codex in the collection that was written outside
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 29
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    14th century, second half of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • This Dominican-type breviary is from Zurich.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. AA 91
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    e-codices
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    German
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    • The so-called "Berner Parzival" is the last dated manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem about
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    Sarnen. Staatsarchiv Obwalden, Sig. A.02.CHR.0003
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    Sarnen. Staatsarchiv Obwalden
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 1470–1607
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • It is called the “White Book” because it was originally bound in a white pigskin cover.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 9
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, 9th/10th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • On pp. 264–318 there is a biblical glossary that is defective in the beginning; it is ordered according
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    Bremgarten. Stadtarchiv Bremgarten, Bücherarchiv Nr. 2
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    e-codices
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    Bremgarten. Stadtarchiv Bremgarten
    Date
    16th century, [1514-1532]
    Language
    German
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    • The Eidgenössische Chronik by Werner Schodoler (1490-1541) is the last of the illustrated Swiss chronicles
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 95
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son Georg (ca. 1450-1529) is
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv, StiA Hof, Cod. 250
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    e-codices
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    Luzern. Staatsarchiv
    Date
    15th century, 1445
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The Liber vitae is the oldest surviving martyrology from the Benedictine abbey or collegiate church of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 151
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1402
    Language
    Bavarian, German
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    • Manuscript CB 151, completed in November 1402 by the copyist Johannes Man de Creussen (cf. fol. 187), is
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 72
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, first quarter of the 14th century
    Language
    Middle High German, German
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    • It is a wide-ranging written record of German lyric poetry in the middle ages.