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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.74
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    e-codices
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    Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • In November 1953 the leaf was purchased from the J.H. Wade Fund for the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 46
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • the Engelberg Abbot Frowin (1143-1178) about free will, the De laude liberi arbitrii libri septem, from
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 2
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1197
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aside from a few decorated initials, also red, there is no book decoration.
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 360(177)
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    e-codices
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 12th century (1143-1178)
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript was assembled from an assortment of fragments that had been removed in the 19th century
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The text, mostly in dark-, sometimes light-brown ink comes from multiple hands, which all have their
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 138
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The text of both works probably comes from the same hand, and is accompanied throughout by numerous rubricated
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, second half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 12th century preserves the Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 72
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 1267-1276
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • The different sections are to varying degrees distinguished from each other through simply decorated
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1008
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The circumstances surrounding this stash – perhaps protection from theft or some other threat – are unknown
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 49
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • As is typical for the volumes from Frowin's library, the text is rendered throughout in black-brown ink
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 1009
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript is a meticulous copy from the St. Gall exemplar, Cod. 621 (9th century).
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 139
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The clean and balanced, slightly cursive script in brown ink comes from a single hand.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 16
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • As with most volumes from Frowin's library, tears and holes in the parchment are carefully stitched up
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 67
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 1197-1223
    Language
    Latin
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    • Codex 67 contains De mirabilibus mundi, a collection of curiosities by the grammarian Julius Solinus from
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 135
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The numerous, frequently changing hands differ greatly from each other in line ruling and appearance.
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 3
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • This large-format volume was, according to the colophon on 281v, written by Richene, the only scribe from
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 64
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • The text and marginal notes, in a dark-brown (and in a few places light brown) ink come from the same
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 89
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 12th century, 9th century; 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This codex begins with works of Augustine: 1r-27v Liber de gratia et libero arbitrio, 28r-63r letters from
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    [sine loco], codices restituti, Cod. 2 (Frowinus dispersus)
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    e-codices
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    [sine loco], codices restituti
    Date
    12th century, 1143-1178
    Language
    Latin
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    • identify the membrum disiectum, which is now held by the The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1955.74 (Purchase from
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 90
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    e-codices
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    Engelberg. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine 1r-6v and Peter Damian 6v-10r), and after it comes a collection of opinions of and excerpts from