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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 154
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 15th century, 11th century and 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • A precursor to the rediscovery of Statius during the Renaissance of the 12th century this manuscript
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 129
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 12th century (middle?)
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • The satires were very popular in the Middle Ages and beyond, as even Jean-Jacques Rousseau borrowed some
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 172
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1490
    Language
    Italian
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 76
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 68
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Carolingian reform efforts responded to a desire to regularize religious orders by creating a unified
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 182
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Adnotationes super Lucanum, preceded by the Vita Lucani by Vacca, a grammarian from late antiquity whom some
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, about 1491
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Although the Aesopian tradition enjoyed great popularity during the middle ages, thanks to the dissemination
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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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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 84
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, 9th century (first half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • It contains the sole extant copy of the Latin version of a text falsely attributed to Hippocrates: "De
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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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    • This text, originally written at the beginning of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 142
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • In the foreword to CB 142, Prudentius underscores his desire to please God through the work he does,
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 189
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In about 1310 the Bishop of Liège, Thibaut de Bar, commissioned Jacques de Longuyon to write the Vœux
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 113
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Marie de France (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • CB 113 is a copy of a manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains a collection
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 16th century (ca. 1513-1521)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Mantua and Florence
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 122
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 108
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • This text by Lucan is accompanied by marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands, which are partly
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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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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • 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, M-45.1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
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    • 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 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(?)
    • Matthias-Eucharius Abbey in Trier, clearly belonged to the Benedictine abbey, as the ex libris on f.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 48
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    English
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • by Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Poetry", have been preserved in 82 medieval manuscripts and