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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)
    • initials, some of which incorporate figures, especially that of a muse, clad in a dress covered with stars and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 47
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • grisaille with gold highlights is framed by motifs in the manner of antiquity with trophies, sphinxes and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 72
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, first quarter of the 14th century
    Language
    Middle High German, German
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    • The so called "Kalocsa-Kodex" contains more than two hundred texts from the time between the and of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, V-7.2
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1 February 1611
    Language
    Spanish
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    • author of many comedias de santos, finished this Historia de Barlán y Josafat, comedia in three acts and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 45
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    Spanish
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    • The collection includes all the Proverbios of Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, and poetry
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The frontispiece of this manuscript is richly decorated with foliage in all four margins and initials
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 95
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th – beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • The beginning and the end of the text of the Roman are missing in this manuscript, where the main divisions
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 44
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The "bianchi girari" (white vine) book decoration and the illuminated initial capitals which mark the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 34
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, Armenian Era 1056, 23th of December - AD 1606
    Language
    Armenian
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    • It contains the Four Gospels, the Apocalypse of Saint John, and a Gospelindex devised for liturgical
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 902
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, end of 17th century, before 1715
    Language
    Nahuatl
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    • tlalamatl, "Land Manuscript", which records the territorial boundaries between the village of Tepexoyuca and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 603
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, very likely 12th century
    Language
    Chinese
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    • The handscroll of Daihannya-haramitta-kyō, the Sutra of Great Wisdom, chapter five hundred and forty,
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 85
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The text by Homer is accompanied by interlinear and marginal scholii and commentaries by the Byzantine
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 701
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century
    Language
    Punjabi, Braj Bhasha
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    • is a collection of stories of the life of the god Kṛṣṇa, written in verse (caupaī, kabitā, soraṭhā and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 116
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Of all the 19 surviving manuscripts and fragments containing the Prophesies de Merlin, only CB 116 transmits
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 182
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • The codex probably was created in the Benedictine Abbey Tegernsee in Bavaria and later was part of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 73
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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 177
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • (Galen’s Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo I-II with a Liber tercius by a pseudo-Galen, the Aurelius and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 115
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • This Greek manuscript was copied on paper and, thanks to an inscription, can be dated from 1561.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 709
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, 1776 or 1777
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • (ff. 1_1r-1_6r) preparatory texts and rituals (without a single name or title), starting with a likely
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 105 c
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript in four volumes brings together the prose texts Lancelot Propre, La Queste del saint Graal, and