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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is set between alternating straight and spiral marble columns.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 673
    Collection
    e-codices
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • As opposed to the later widespread version of 101 Distinctiones (Part I), 36 Causae (Part II) and De
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
    Collection
    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)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little or nothing to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 76
    Collection
    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 186
    Collection
    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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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [around 1470]
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation of Hillel ben Samuel of Verona (ca. 1220 – ca. 1295); in contrast to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
    Collection
    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
    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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    • 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 7
    Collection
    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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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 269
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1467 and 1468
    Language
    Latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Hornby, Charles Harry St John, Unspecified, printer and collector
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 86
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One should take note of some of the decorated initials, some of which incorporate figures, especially
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Charles I d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily (1226-1285)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is generally attributed to
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, F IX 2
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    e-codices
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This 15th century composite manuscript was produced in Italy and contains humanist occasional poems and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 125
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    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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • 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 51
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213
    Collection
    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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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Palimpsest Manuscript with texts from the 8th (upper script band) and 5th (lower script band) centuries
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have