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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 70
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript of English origin contains the Historia Regum Britannie by Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 48
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    e-codices
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    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
    • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Poetry", have been preserved in 82 medieval
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 99
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, 9th century (first half?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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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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    • Millar, Eric George, 1887-1966, DLitt, Keeper of Manuscripts British Museum
    • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Unspecified, of Add MS 43460
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 133
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, end of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Hildebert of Lavardin, c 1056-1133/4, Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Philo of Alexandria, 1st cent. BCE
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • of the most important book decorators of the late middle ages : Jean Fouquet (BnF, ms. fr. 247).
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • 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 107
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, end of the 9th century
    Language
    Old High German, Latin
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Benedict of Nursia
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 58
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
    • Galen of Pergamon, c 129-c 216
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 124
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Alcuin of York, c 735-804
    • The double page at the beginning of this manuscript of the Metamorphoses and the Fasti of Ovid shows
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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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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • 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, M-5.1
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    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 67
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, second half of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • : the knightly romance "Gui de Warewic" (Guy of Warwick) and the Anglo-Norman rhyming chronicle the "
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 116
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Of all the 19 surviving manuscripts and fragments containing the Prophesies de Merlin, only CB 116 transmits
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 30
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, 14th century, around 1200 / 13th / 14th centuries
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Odo of Cluny
    • Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
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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, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • 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 113
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • CB 113 is a copy of a manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains a collection
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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)
    • This manuscript contains Cicero’s speeches, which were copied out in a humanistic script of the 15th
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 136
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of 14th - beginning of 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Mantua and Florence
    • An exceptional testimony of the "Renaissance" that rediscovered Platonism, as opposed to the medieval