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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 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, R-49.2
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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 141
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1466
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript belonged to Antonello Petrucci d’Aversa († 1487), who was active in the Aragonese chancery
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 6
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Historiae de preliis Alexandri Magni forms a part of the vast body of Latin literature devoted to
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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
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 701
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century
    Language
    Punjabi, Braj Bhasha
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    • This is a Panjabi adaptation of the 10th book of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, in Punjabi/Braj language, in Gurmukhī
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, V-7.2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1 February 1611
    Language
    Spanish
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    • In the prince, who first gives up his palace in order to learn about the plagues of the world and then
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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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    • 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 133
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, end of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript, which was probably created in the St.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 42
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1455-1460
    Language
    Alemannic
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    • The Edelstein contained in this manuscript consists of 100 fables, composed around 1330 by the Bernese
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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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    • The Medici coat of arms can be found in the middle of the original binding’s cover, in a rich frieze
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 121
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • It contains two ancient historical texts that were copied independently of one another: the Epitome
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 177
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This medical handbook by Gariopontus, who flourished in the mid-11th century in Salerno, systematically
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 21
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The Hebrew text of the Old Testament in CB 21 originated in Moorish Spain: Al-Andalus.
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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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    • This manuscript from the 14th century unites four disquisitions on medicine.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 59
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Alemannic, German, Swabian
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    • All three show the influence of Alemannic dialect and all three were produced at the end of the 15th
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript contains a collection of letters exchanged in the court circle of Friedrich II., assembled
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 905
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, end of the 16th century
    Language
    No language
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    • Testeriano denotes catechism manuscripts in a pictographic script attributed to the Franciscan friar
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 8
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Multiple treatises by Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder