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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 86
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One should take note of some of the decorated initials, some of which incorporate figures, especially
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
    Collection
    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)
    • 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 161
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 1280
    Language
    Latin
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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • "Even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits
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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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    • René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem (1409-1480)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 70
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • England and Netherlands
    • At the end of the text (114v), the writer transcribed some annotations regarding the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-5.1
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 21 January 1628
    Language
    French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • While Cardinal Richelieu was besieging La Rochelle by land and by sea from September 1627 on, the poet
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 125
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1320?), notes from the 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 16
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • The codex belongs to the libray of the Benedictine Abbey of Gladbach near Cologne.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
    Collection
    e-codices
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    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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 80
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    e-codices
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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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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • The first part (f. 1r-20v) contains the oldest version of Gunzo’s Epistola ad Augienses and can be dated
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and
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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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    • The poet had submitted his original work to various humanists and high-ranking scholars, and he took
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 82
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Carefully copied by a single scribe at the end of the 13th century in England, this manuscript was given to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 90
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 9
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 11th century, 11th/12th century / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • During the entire middle ages in the occident, the texts of Aristotle and Boethius were well circulated
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, R-49.2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, December 1740
    Language
    French
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    • The long Mémoire, dedicated to the older boy, emphasizes the “educational mission” and experience with
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 22
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, c. 1500
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Early 16th century Esther scroll from Ashkenaz, for private use with intricate floral and animal type
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental work which attests to