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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4804/1
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
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    • Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
    • Gilbert of Poitiers, c 1075-1154, Bishop of Poitiers
    • Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 136
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of 14th - beginning of 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Mantua and Florence
    • An exceptional testimony of the "Renaissance" that rediscovered Platonism, as opposed to the medieval
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 459
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, second third of the 16th century and 1552 and second half of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • A manuscript consisting of three production units.
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, A VII 3
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 9th century, 2-3/3
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
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    • Fulgentius, Saint, Bishop of Ruspa, 468-533
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • Alcuin of York, c 735-804
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 3
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
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    • Abbey of Stavelot (Belgium)
    • This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. gr. 44
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Stampoul (Istanbul), Church of Saint Nikoghayos
    • of older manuscripts and which testify to the environment during production and to the habits of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 184
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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 8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Heron of Alexandria
    • Multiple treatises by Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder
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    London. British Library, Add MS 36668
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • White, Henry, Unspecified, FSA; of Add MS 36668
    • (such as the lion in the bottom margin on f. 109r) suggest that it was well used by both novices and
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. graec. 314
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    12. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/grc
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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Library announced the spectacular discovery of 29 sermons on the psalms by Origen, or Origenes, of Alexandria
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 92
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, German, French, Ancient Greek
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    • Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316
    • This manuscript, copied in the years 1460-1480, contains De regimine principum by Aegidius Romanus, decorated
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 82
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
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    • Usuard, d c 877, Monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
    • England and Netherlands
    • The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. graec. 157
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1. Drittel 15. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/grc
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    • Stampoul (Istanbul), Church of Saint Nikoghayos
    • and of his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, the Archbishop of Esztergom, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 64
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The first pages of this manuscript, copied around the end of the 15th century on paper, lay out the plot
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 299
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • (such as the Letter of Jerome to Marcella or Pope Gregory the Great’s homilies on the Gospels).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2719
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, bre, grc
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 402
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1480-1500
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Sometime during the last 20 years of the 15th century, this manuscript was copied and annotated by the
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 1 B XI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc, heb
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    • secundum Sanctum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), preceded by a prologue (ff. 70r-v) and capitula (ff.
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 360
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, 1564
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • A catalog of the Greek manuscripts in the library of Jean Hurant de Boistaillé (†1572), which he collected
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 102
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500-1510
    Language
    Latin, French, Ancient Greek
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    • Bourges, workshop of Jean Colombe
    • This examplar from the late period of the French Book of hours, preserved in its entirety, was illuminated