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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 36
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, first quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    German
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    • Written in two columns in bastarda script with a decoration of fleuronné initials, from the first quarter
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
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    • 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 80
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, 13th century, 10th, 11th, 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • first part (f. 1r-20v) contains the oldest version of Gunzo’s Epistola ad Augienses and can be dated to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 120
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th or 11th-12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • copied in Norman Sicily, contains Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs in the version translated from
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 163
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • illuminated in Florence, perhaps for Braccio, a member of the Martelli family, who had his coat of arms added to
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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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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Padua or Venice
    • This manuscript from the 14th century unites four disquisitions on medicine.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 44
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • This copy of Cesar's "Commentarii" from about 1480 attests to the great popularity this text attained
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 709
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, 1776 or 1777
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • (ff. 1_1r-1_6r) preparatory texts and rituals (without a single name or title), starting with a likely
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 51
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • The manuscript belonged to Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (1490-1553) from Florence and then to the Venetian
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 20
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • or Flanders
    • This work recounts the life of the Constable for Charles V, from his childhood to his death.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 603
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, very likely 12th century
    Language
    Chinese
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    • It was introduced to China from India by the monk, scholar and translator Xuanzang, who translated the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 160
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    French
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    • Utterson, Edward Vernon (1775 or 1776-1856)
    • or Flanders
    • The ink wash drawings are very similar to those found in Ms. 9650-52 of the Königliche Bibliothek of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
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    • or Flanders
    • This allegorical poem, composed in 1455, invites people to live a holy life by means of a dialogue between
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 92
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • or Flanders
    • unreliable--etymologies of the words, Isidore collected in his work the whole of ancient knowledge, in order to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 143
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • Benvenutus, de Imola (-1387 or 1388)
    • or Flanders
    • manuscript contains the Romuleon, a collection of anonymous Latin texts about the history of Rome attributed to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • or Flanders
    • The Antiquitates iudaicae recounts the history of the Jewish nation from Genesis to the year 66 according
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216
    • Padua or Venice
    • Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is generally attributed to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 47
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • The Carmina by Catullus contained in this codex was written in a humanistic cursive, attributed to the