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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 188
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, around 1230
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • is possible that the codex was produced in about 1230 in the area of Cologne in a scholastic circle and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 31
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript contains the Song of Songs with a lacuna (6.5-8) due to the loss of a sheet.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 87
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Ilias latina was frequently copied during the entire occidental middle ages, which enjoyed access to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 706
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (?)
    Language
    Prakrit
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    • The present manuscript, written in Devanāgarī script, begins with the life of Mahāvīra Jīna, and continues
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 84
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    Europeana Regia
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    1ere moitié du 9e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 111
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 10th century (around 970?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Somnium Scipionis by Macrobius, followed by excerpts from the Naturalis historia of Pliny the Elder and
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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
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 114
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Epigrammata by Martial (ca. 40- ca. 102) in twelve books, followed by the usual two concluding texts, Xenia and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, R-49.1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, not dated [ca. 1764]
    Language
    French
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    • Letter VII, where this page comes from, supports the right of representation when it comes to correcting
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 127
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Lupus of Ferrières, c 805-c 862, Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul, Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
    • the 12th century, possibly in the German Cloister of Weissenau, is decorated with ornately detailed and
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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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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • It is preceded by a prologue by Jerome and is followed by short prayer by Gregory of Nazianzus, also
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 61
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, about 1400-1405
    Language
    Middle Dutch
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    • between Tournai and The Hague
    • This parchment manuscript, CB 61, was produced at the beginning of the 15th century and contains codes
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 43
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    English
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Chronicle of London and paraphrase of the Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
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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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    • Mantua and Florence
    • 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 77
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Some passages of text in the codex are based on the Institutio musica by Boethius.
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins of the Peloponnesian War and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 135
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (about 1350-1370?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • , describes the health benefits of about thirty healing springs found in the region around Pozzuoli and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 176
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1471
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • The Rhetorica, a work in Latin recording ten years teaching by Guillaume Fichet, is a witness to this
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 30
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 14th century, around 1200 / 13th / 14th centuries
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The first part of the manuscript contains about a hundred leaves from the 12th and 13th centuries.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 65
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, second half of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian