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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 111
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 10th century (around 970?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius, followed by excerpts from the Naturalis historia of Pliny the Elder and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 120
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th or 11th-12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • It is preceded by a prologue by Jerome and is followed by short prayer by Gregory of Nazianzus, also
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 133
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, end of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • It also contains excerpts from the Carmina by the poet and Bishop of Tours Hildebert of Lavardin (1056
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 107
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, end of the 9th century
    Language
    Old High German, Latin
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Among the most important are four laws, the Lex Salica, Lex Ribuaria, Lex Alamannorum and Lex Baiuvariorum
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 9
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 11th century, 11th/12th century / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • During the entire middle ages in the occident, the texts of Aristotle and Boethius were well circulated
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 7
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This Latin manuscript on astronomical topics includes works by Germanicus, Pliny the Elder and Hyginus
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 90
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 136
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of 14th - beginning of 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • based on Aristotle, CB 136 was copied by the hand of the great Florentine humanist Leonardo Bruni, also
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 150
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th / beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    German
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    • The Schwabenspiegel (mirror of the Swabians) contains a collection of national and feudal laws; during
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • 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 147
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Arthurian romance tales in prose: "Estoire del Graal", "Merlin", "Suite Merlin", "Queste del saint Graal", and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 8
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Multiple treatises by Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 601a
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
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    • The Tale of Ise is one of the earliest and most well-known example of uta monogatari, a subgenre of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 601b
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
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    • The Tale of Ise is one of the earliest and most well-known example of uta monogatari, a subgenre of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 550
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1623/24
    Language
    Persian
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    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains the story of Prince Seyf ol-Molûk and Princess Badî`ol-Jamâl
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 64
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Following Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes) and Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Euripides sought to treat
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 106
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The two pieces were later also used for numerous clumsy drawings, graffiti and arithmetic exercises.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This ethical work by Boccaccio, originally written between 1353 and 1356 and expanded in 1373, addresses
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 168
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic couplets celebrating the lives of its hero and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • its usefulness, this manuscript serves to demonstrate a high level of achievement in the calligraphic and