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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 977
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    12 Julho 1496
    Language
    Latin
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    • Petrus Hispanus (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1277), philosopher and later Pope John XXI(?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 9464
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1475
    Language
    ita
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • p>Data Source(s): Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 29
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1530-1538
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Illumination, by the papal illuminator Vincenzo Raimondi (Raymond of Lodève, miniaturist to the Sistine Chapel and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 91
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Blue 8-line initial M(ORTUO PTOLOMEO) with penwork scrolls in blocks of yellow, lilac and red.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 299
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    13uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Mauritius, Michael, Sophia, Satyrius, nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Peter and Paul, George, Mark
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 693
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    4 Julho 1483
    Language
    Latin
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    • Alfonso X, King of Castile and León 1221-1284
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal. lat. 867
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    15. Jh.
    Language
    lat
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 840
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    31 Outubro 1492
    Language
    Latin
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    • Alfonso X, King of Castile and León 1221-1284
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1388
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    1478
    Language
    lat
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    • Abū Ma'shar, c 787-c 886, astrologer, astronomer; also known as Albumasar
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 135
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 701
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Summary:A single leaf showing the fourth Sunday after Pentecost (r-v) and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 167; MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 168
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, early
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Lower cover and upper cover. Two early sixteenth-century Italian bindings using the same tool.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 388
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1150
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Ambrose, feasts of the Temporal from the first Sunday in Advent to Christmas, Stephen, to Epiphany and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 219
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Fine surround border of vine-stem interlace on multi-coloured ground framed in gold, with putto and birds
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 795
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    5 Outubro 1490
    Language
    Latin
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, AN VIII 45
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The style of the painting and of the veneration of the saints suggests the region around Modena, Este
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 299
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    13uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Mauritius, Michael, Sophia, Satyrius, nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Peter and Paul, George, Mark
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barlow 40
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Cicero, flanked by Cato and Caesar, triumphing over the Catilinarian conspirators.