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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • decoration consists of numerous initials with bianchi girari (white vine scroll), with side borders and
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 00999
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1450?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Includes partial Office of the Dead (leaves [1]-[36v] and parts of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 302
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • EXPLICIT LIBER SEXTUS DE BELLO GALLICO. 7-line gold initial Q(VI) with white-stem interlace on red, green and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 987
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Probable identification of the text: the cutting is pasted onto a paper backing and
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 480
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    28 Março 1476
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 1004
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Paul holding book and sword.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 983
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1400
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • :The versos show music on a large 4-line red staff with text in a gothic rotunda hand and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O inf. 1.31(1)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1499
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript inscription records that Christoph Scheurl purchased this book in the year of jubilee in Rome and
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    aft. 1400
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Gothic liturgical script; with text and Gregorian chant notation.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 989
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    14uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Probable identification of the text: the cutting is pasted onto a paper backing and
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, italien 594
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    Début du XVe siècle (1390-1430).
    Language
    italien
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3520
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1. Viertel 14. Jh
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Arnold of Villanova (b. c. 1240, d. 1311), physician and reformer
    • Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, 980-1037, also known as Avicenna
    • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (b. 854, d. 925), physician, alchemist and philosopher
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 97
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This 13th century manuscript is from Italy and contains the first four books of the work De fide orthodoxa
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 932-935
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    18 Abril 1495
    Language
    Latin
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    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 984
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Drawn in tempera and colored inks with gold leaf.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is set between alternating straight and spiral marble columns.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 211
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Script, parchment and initials, not Italian.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B327
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, [around 1800]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Omer calendars were especially popular in the 18th century and were available in many different designs
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 50
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • contains De senectute, De amicitia, the Paradoxa ad Brutum by Cicero, the Synonyma by Pseudo-Cicero, and