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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 18
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, 15th or 16th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Isidore of Seville, Jerome, Eusebius of Caesarea as translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, Paulus Orosius and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 41
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, third quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • archbishop of Rouen (1130-1164), is the author of the two theological treatises, Sur la foi catholique and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 70/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1457-1482
    Language
    French
    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • Between 1416 and 1422, Jean de Courcy wrote a chronicle titled La Bouquechardière, named after his fief
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 6
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • The manuscript is decorated with, among others, two initials embellished with interlace and with canonical
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 178
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1353
    Language
    French
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • part of this allegorial romance (over 4,000 verses) was written by Guillaume de Lorris in about 1230, and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. heb. 10
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript consists of four texts: an anonymous treatise on arithmetic and astronomy, an anonymous
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 77
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    French
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • At the request of Jean II of France, between 1354 and 1356, the Dominican Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 99
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century (cf. H. Aubert and A. Dufour) or around 1478-1480 (cf. B. Gagnebin)
    Language
    Latin
    • Mantua and Florence
    • bianchi girari” ornamentation, had it bound in Urbino with a very beautiful Italian Renaissance binding, and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 145
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • numbered paragraphs, containing, inter alia, a book of magic called Harba de-Moshe (Sword of Moses) and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 54
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, around 1420
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript dates from about 1420 and contains the "Conspiracy of Catilin " and the "Jugurthine War
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 102
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1320
    Language
    French
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • hagiographic compilation in French prose which recounts the lives of the apostles, martyrs, confessors and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 54
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 1470-1480
    Language
    Latin
    • Mantua and Florence
    • Its rich and elegant illumination is due to the close circle of the most famous florentine miniaturist
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/2
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    12th century, last quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    French
    • England and Netherlands
    • alexandrine verse (en laisses d’alexandrins) was composed in the 12th century by an author of the continent and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • It is presented in the form of biblical stories and combines the Vulgata of Jerome with the Historia
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. gr. 44
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • manuscript contains a great number of scholia, which partially complete those of older manuscripts and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 62
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 1483-1490
    Language
    Latin
    • Statuta et ordinationes ecclesie Gebennensis (Statutes and ordinances of the Church of Geneva)
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 80
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, French
    • contains ten scientific treatises (astronomy, physics, mechanics, etc.) written in Latin or French and
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 55 bis
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    18th century, 1720-1742
    Language
    Latin
    • Over time, the wax turned black and hard, which makes it harder to read.
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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
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Pierre le Fruitier, called Salmon, secretary to Charles VI and someone who influenced John the Fearless