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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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    • This manuscript, an autograph, contains a historical-topographical description of “Turgöuw” or Eastern
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 298
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1410 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • the earliest manuscripts written in Humanist minuscule, and it is possible that this is a direct copy from
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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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    • Padua or Venice
    • Heinrich Schlüsselfelder's work, Blumen der Tugend, a collection of brief instructive tales, is derived from
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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 from its beginnings under Abbot Othmar around the year 720 up to the year 1532, that is, to the
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 292a
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    5th century, around 410/420
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy, north (Bologna or Padua)
    • These fragments from late antiquity are among the oldest surviving copies of the Gospels in the "
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 1000
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    14th century, second half of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This 6,5 meter long parchment scroll depicts the history of the world, from Adam and Eve up to Christ
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 292
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The first part is a Psalter from the 9th century; whether it was produced in St.
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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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    • Each double page of the opened book shows four images, which usually juxtapose one scene from the life
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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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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 312
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    10th century
    Language
    Old High German, Latin
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    • It is arranged in such a way as to leave lots of space for marginal glosses next to the poems.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 69
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, last quarter of the 15th century, before 1495
    Language
    Latin
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    • The account is preceded by a list of abbots from the founder Otmar up to Berchtold von Falkenstein (1244
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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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    • The individual elements were produced independently of one another during the 9th or 10th century.
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 295
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This small-format volume from the 11th century combines a calendar, a gradual with neumes, and sung parts
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 343c
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • This history Bible is traceable to Constance in the third quarter of the 15th century; some defects were
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 343d
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    15th century, middle of the 15th century
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    Alemannic, German
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    • This history Bible is traceable to Constance in the third quarter of the 15th century; some defects were
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 332
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    13th century, 14th century, third quarter of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This richly illustrated pocket bible from the third quarter of the 13th century contains the Old and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 294
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    9th century, last quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 296
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • De arithmetica and De institutione musica Boethius transmitted Greek mathematics and music theory to
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 302
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    13th century, 14th century, around 1300
    Language
    Alemannic, German
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    • It represents one of the most accomplished examples of south German book decoration from the time around
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 70
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, after the middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gall from the early and high Middle Ages, and about 50 lives of saints in texts of various lengths, among