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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
    • its usefulness, this manuscript serves to demonstrate a high level of achievement in the calligraphic and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-45.1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
    • Michelangelo (1475-1564) addressed this sonnet and his dedication to one of his closest friends, the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This translation is also based on Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation, completed in 1513.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 37
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (1360-1370)
    Language
    Italian
    • The text is written as a prosimetrum — alternating prose and verse — as is immediately obvious from the
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 30
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, about 1700
    Language
    Italian
    • . — The names of metals and other materials that Coene used in experiments are not written out in the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 172
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1490
    Language
    Italian
    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1786
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B283
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 1553-1555
    Language
    Italian
    • This collection of eleven documents in Italian concerning the condemnation and burning of the Talmud
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 463
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, second third of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, German, Italian, French
    • musical scores in measured notation using the five line staff, mainly by contemporary French, Dutch, and
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 8
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, about 1577-1591
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • “libro di ricordanze” belonged to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; it is probably comprised of the notes (and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 57
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Copied in 1378 by Francesco di maestro Tura of Cesena, who included both a date and a signature at the
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    Castro. Archivio parrocchiale, s. n.
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    Castro. Archivio parrocchiale
    Date
    16th century, 1554
    Language
    Italian, Latin
    • 1554 at the request of the vicini (the original members of the municipal corporate body) of Castro and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
    • The poet had submitted his original work to various humanists and high-ranking scholars, and he took
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • his youth, praised for the subtlety of its psychological approach, mixes autobiographical elements and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The frontispiece of this manuscript is richly decorated with foliage in all four margins and initials
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    Torre. Archivio parrocchiale, s. n.
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    Torre. Archivio parrocchiale
    Date
    16th century, 1568-1593
    Language
    Latin, Italian
    • in 1568 at the request of the vicini (the original members of the municipal corporate body) of Torre and
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 310(401)
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, mid-15th century
    Language
    Latin, Italian
    • contains a series of decrees issued by the Visconti government for the municipal authorities between 1352 and