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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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    • Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 2-ca. 487
    • Padua or Venice
    • The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 122
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Padua or Venice
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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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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • Padua or Venice
    • 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 125
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1320?), notes from the 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • Padua or Venice
    • This manuscript from Italy contains Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel (attributed to)
    • Padua or Venice
    • Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Emerging from a vase at the center is a large naturalistic flowering wine with scrolling stems and blossoms
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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)
    • Padua or Venice
    • This codex from Italy contains Gregory the Great’s Homiliae in Ezechielem.
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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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    • Padua or Venice
    • star chart) consisting of five golden concentric circles containing constellations portrayed as people or
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Padua or Venice
    • This 14th century Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [around 1470]
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Padua or Venice
    • Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation of Hillel ben Samuel of Verona (ca. 1220 – ca. 1295); in contrast to
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • rules concerning the order of the prayers and the laws for Shabbat, holidays and feasts, in addition to
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 484
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    e-codices
    Library
    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. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213
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    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 5th century, 5th century (lower script) / 8th century (upper script)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Palimpsest Manuscript with texts from the 8th (upper script band) and 5th (lower script band) centuries
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, AN VIII 45
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • twelve months; at the beginning of the offices there are ornamental pages with illustrations mostly from
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 58
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Padua or Venice
    • This manuscript from the 14th century unites four disquisitions on medicine.
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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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    • Padua or Venice
    • Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 44
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • This copy of Cesar's "Commentarii" from about 1480 attests to the great popularity this text attained
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 51
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • The manuscript belonged to Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (1490-1553) from Florence and then to the Venetian
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    Dalpe. Archivio parrocchiale, n. 1
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    e-codices
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    Dalpe. Archivio parrocchiale
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • This parchment booklet from the parish archives of Dalpe (Leventina) contains the story of the suffering