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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 124
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • This richly decorated book of hours was illuminated in Tours in about 1500, for an owner from Toulouse
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1410
    Language
    French
    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Master of Luçon
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 165
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, ca. 1412-1415
    Language
    French
    • Master of the Mazarine
    • Pierre Le Fructier, called Salmon, Secretary to Charles VI, King of France
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 172
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, mid to late 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/2
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, about 1410
    Language
    French
    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Master of Luçon
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 76
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    13th century, around the end of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Alfredus Anglicus ou Alfred of Sareshel (12..-12..)
    • John of Seville, fl 1133-1142
    • Gerard of Cremona
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 85
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, around 1460-1465
    Language
    French
    • William of Tyre
    • This history of the Crusades is a translation of Guillaume de Tyr's Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 80
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, French
    • Marbod of Rennes, c 1035-1123, Bishop of Rennes
    • This collection, dated to the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, contains
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 38
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
    • Millar, Eric George, 1887-1966, DLitt, Keeper of Manuscripts British Museum
    • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Unspecified, of Add MS 43460
    • This elegant pocket-size book of hours was illuminated in Tours around 1480 by the Maître des camaïeux
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 92
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, German, French, Ancient Greek
    • Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316
    • Romanus, decorated with a miniature in which the author (Aegidius Romanus) dedicates the book to the king of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 157
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    12th century, 13th century, around 1200
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • This manuscript, dated to about 1200, contains several texts, among them the Martyrology of Usuard (Benedictine
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 35
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Bourges, workshop of Jean Colombe
    • This small, elegant, illuminated book of hours for the use of Rome was probably produced in the workshop
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 76
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1475-1500
    Language
    French
    • Illuminator: Master of Edward IV
    • Vasco de Lucena translated Quintus Curtius’ history of Alexander into French at the request of Isabella
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485
    Language
    French
    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • At the end of the 1480s Gaston Febus wrote a tract, in French and in prose, on hunting, known under the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This book of hours in the Parisian fashion is richly illuminated and was made for the diocese of Nantes
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 16
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    7th century, 8th century, 7th / 8th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Florus, of Lyons, d. 860
    • Maximus of Turin, Saint, 4th/5th cent.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 41
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    12th century, third quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Hugh of Amiens, archbishop of Rouen (1130-1164), is the author of the two theological treatises, Sur
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 147
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
    • Bourges, workshop of Jean Colombe
    • This miniature book of hours (11.5 x 7 cm) for use in Rome was probably made in Bourges by the Master
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485-1490
    Language
    French
    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • In the 1240s, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen wrote a Latin treatise on falconry (De arte venandi cum avibus
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 101
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 2nd third of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • One of the ancient authors best known in the Middle Ages doubtlessly was Cicero.