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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 the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • This Evangelary with an unusual, nearly square format and full-page illuminated initials was written
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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
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    Latin
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    • 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. 70
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    15th century, after the middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Gall from the early and high Middle Ages, and about 50 lives of saints in texts of various lengths, among
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 298
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    15th century, 1410 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Mantua and Florence
    • volume produced in 1420 in Florence is among the earliest manuscripts written in Humanist minuscule, and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 46
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    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
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    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. 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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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • — usually together with interlinear glosses — have been added in a different ink from the main text and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 317
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    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. 427
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • The cosmology of the Lyon physician and astrologer Louis de Lange treats the formation of the world and
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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. 295
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    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. 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. 296
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • In the works De arithmetica and De institutione musica Boethius transmitted Greek mathematics and music
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 342
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    14th century, around 1360/1370
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • The illustrations and text enjoy equal importance in this illustrated work of anti-papal propaganda,
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 321
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
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    13th century, 14th century, 13th–14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Premonstratensian abbey of Weissenau near Ravensburg; the popes, emperors, kings, princes, dukes, counts, bishops and
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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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    • 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
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    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.