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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 50
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • It was created in Italy in a humanistic script from the second half of the 15th century.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, dedicated to "women in love", describes in the first person the feelings of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, about 1491
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • the Aesopian tradition enjoyed great popularity during the middle ages, thanks to the dissemination of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 708
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, between 1700 and 1800, likely towards 1800
    Language
    Sanskrit
    • This is an 18th century manuscript of the text called Kedārakalpa, representing itself as a part of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 71
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • With the metaphor of a donkey that becomes its owner’s lord, the poem presents a critique of the corruption
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, late 10th century / early 11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • which combines the Odes, the Epodes, and the Carmen saeculare, a piece interpreted by children's choirs of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 550
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1623/24
    Language
    Persian
    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains the story of Prince Seyf ol-Molûk and Princess Badî`ol-Jamâl
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 42
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1455-1460
    Language
    Alemannic
    • 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 4
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 79
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1308
    Language
    French
    • Guillaume de Loris and Jean de Meung (Meun) are the authors of the Roman de la Rose, one of the masterpieces
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 74
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 1071
    Language
    Latin
    • This Gradual was produced in 1071 by the archpresbyter of the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere;
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 101
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin, Flemish
    • both inside covers are fragments from a 14th-century manuscript written in Dutch which contain part of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
    • This "paperolle" from the famous "Code Gonzague" (held in the Biblioteca Ariostea of Ferrara) is a working
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
    • This codex was produced in the opening years of the 16th century.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 21
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • 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 157
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, South Tyrol (?) (Brixen, St. Elisabeth Convent of the Poor Clares?)
    Language
    Bavarian
    • the allegorical treatise Die zwölf Lichter im Tempel der Seele, which originally might have been part of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 22
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, c. 1500
    Language
    Hebrew
    • from Ashkenaz, for private use with intricate floral and animal type ink drawings located over some of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 6
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • 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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    Latin
    • The date and location of Codex Bodmer 87 can be ascertained with the help of the inscription: "Aretii
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
    • Cleomadés, a poem in octosyllabic verse, is considered the masterpiece of the 13th century French poet