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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This ethical work by Boccaccio, originally written between 1353 and 1356 and expanded in 1373, addresses
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 168
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic couplets celebrating the lives of its hero and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 106
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The two pieces were later also used for numerous clumsy drawings, graffiti and arithmetic exercises.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This translation is also based on Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation, completed in 1513.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • its usefulness, this manuscript serves to demonstrate a high level of achievement in the calligraphic and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 16th century (ca. 1513-1521)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Mantua and Florence
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • They are richly decorated with gold and cover two thirds of a page; a large number of initials adorned
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-45.1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
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    • Michelangelo (1475-1564) addressed this sonnet and his dedication to one of his closest friends, the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 138
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The first page is also decorated with a frame of floral interlace, which is interrupted in the lower
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 189
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Thirteen miniatures and a number of filigreed initials adorn the alexandrine monorhyme stanzas of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 142
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • have been collected in this manuscript from the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century, and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 76
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 48
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    English
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • by Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Poetry", have been preserved in 82 medieval manuscripts and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, late 10th century / early 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Manuscript CB 88, which combines the Odes, the Epodes, and the Carmen saeculare, a piece interpreted
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 122
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 68
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, first half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Aix public; the first part of the Institutio canonicorum presents the statutes of the church fathers and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Charles I d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily (1226-1285)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This collection has been reproduced in over 230 manuscripts and was long regarded as a model for writers
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 89
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The countless marginal and interlinear glosses in CB 89 are evidence of the rediscovery of the works
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 704
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, first half of the 18th century
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • It is one of the most copied texts in the Hindu tradition and survives in a huge number of manuscripts
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 98
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    Europeana Regia
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    1ere moitié du 9e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Italy and France (illumination)