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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
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    • René I, Duke of Anjou (1409-1480)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This manuscript contains the tract Le Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance by King René of Anjou.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1782
    Language
    English, French
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    • White and Sons
    • A selection of unusual, and mainly previously unrecorded insects, giving details of size, shape, pattern
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 164
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    fre, lat
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    • Sir Gregory Page-Turner (b. 1748, d. 1805) 3rd Baronet, landowner and MP
    • and Aaron on the clasps, and of the four Evangelists on the portions attached to the covers.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 91
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century (cf. A. Dufour) or around 1460 (cf. B. Gagnebin)
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • With a beautiful binding à la "Du Seuil", this 15th century manuscript contains the Policraticus (The
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 178
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1353
    Language
    French
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    • Jean, Duke of Berry (1340-1416)
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • The Roman de la Rose is a poetic work of approximately 22,000 octosyllabic verses.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 176
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1380-1389
    Language
    French
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    • Charles, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527)
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • The Ovide moralisé is a poem consisting of 72,000 octosyllables.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.5.5
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second quarter of the fourteenth century C.E., probably c. 1330-1340
    Language
    Latin and French
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    • Marie de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke (c. 1304-77)
    • Pembroke, Aymer de Valence, Earl of, ca. 1270-1324
    • Mahiet (Disciple of Jean Pucelle)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Charles, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Diego de San Pedro is a Spanish pre-Renaissance poet and storyteller; perhaps he was of Hebrew origin
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    London. British Library, Add MS 22398
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    fre, lat
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    • Ansegisus of Fontenelles, c 770-833, Abbot of Fontenelles, Poitou
    • Alcuin of York
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 3021
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Early fourteenth century. Original entries were compiled during the abbacy of William de Clapton (1305-1323) Clapton, William de, 1305-1323
    Language
    Latin, Latin, English and French, Latin and Middle English
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    • Francis Fane, the twelfth Earl of Westmorland
    • William of Clopton (12..-1323)
    • Virtually nothing is known about the management of its estates and the Red Book of Thorney (MSS
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 117
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    fre, lat
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    • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
    • at top, and composed of bands of gold, pink, and blue combined, which curve upward or downward at the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 5
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
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    • Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
    • In this work, written at the end of the 14th century in Valencia, the author describes the universe of
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    Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 95.3
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Bern. Burgerbibliothek
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 767
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    15de eeuw; ca. 1475 (1460)
    Language
    French
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    • Vermoedelijk werden de miniaturen uit het manuscript verwijderd in Blois (zie Bolton, The Roger Martin
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • between Tournai and The Hague
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-1
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 160
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    French
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    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • The Theban and Trojan sagas held an important place in the literature of the middle ages.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 34
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (cf. F. Huot)
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • Abbey of St. Martin (France)
    • This manuscript from the second half of the 15th century is a book of hours for use in the Abbey of St
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 148
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Tristan, written by Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 461
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, before 1545
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian, Flemish
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Song collection of St.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 49
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This manuscript, commissioned by the bibliophile Antoine of Bourgogne in 1460, contains the Epître d’