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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 75
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, 13th-14th centuries or beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript containing legal materials from the 13th or early 14th century demonstrates the high
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 138
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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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    • The twenty comedies by Plautus contained in this manuscript were written in the course of the second
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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 184
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century, around 1482-1485
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • A luxurious copy of the Life of Aesop, part historical and part legendary, that was compiled around 1300
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 704
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, first half of the 18th century
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • The main text is the Bhagavadgītā ("Song of the Lord"), a part of the Mahābhārata epic, book 6, which
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 103
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 14th century, 1378 / second quarter of the 15th century (Wetzel, S. 147) as well as about 1430 (Hayer 1998, S. 160)
    Language
    Bavarian, Latin
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    • The two originally independent parts of this manuscript were bound together probably in the last third
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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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    • This manuscript, which was copied in Norman Sicily, contains Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
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    • probably the Loire region
    • This manuscript contains the tract Le Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance by King René of Anjou.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 15
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • This paper manuscript contains the prose version of the heroic epic Fierabras by Jean Bagnyon (1412-1497
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 95
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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 manuscript is one of four known textual witnesses (not counting a fragment) of the Roman de Jules
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • work which attests to the 14th century’s interest in the history of Roman law.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 73
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1461
    Language
    Bavarian
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    • This manuscript contains the German version of the Gesta Romanorum, a collection of anecdotes and tales
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • translation of Augustine’s De civitate Dei (City of God), an impressive apologetic work in twenty-two books; the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 70
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript of English origin contains the Historia Regum Britannie by Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 119
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 17th century, around 1548 with supplements up to the beginning of the 17th century
    Language
    German
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    • This manuscript contains the transcription of a series of documents that relate directly or indirectly
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • In his De bello Peloponensium, Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 67
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, second half of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • This 13th century manuscript offers a selection of texts from the legend-filled history of Great Britain
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, R-49.2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, December 1740
    Language
    French
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    • In 1740 he took up a difficult position as tutor in the family of the notable Jean Bonnot de Mably, provost
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
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    • This manuscript contains works by Lactantius, written in an Italian humanistic script in the second half
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 157
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, South Tyrol (?) (Brixen, St. Elisabeth Convent of the Poor Clares?)
    Language
    Bavarian
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    • This dated paper manuscript contains the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit by the German mystic and Dominican