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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 28
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • century, probably in the north of France, this Latin Bible unifies in one volume the books of the Old- and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 115
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • This Greek manuscript was copied on paper and, thanks to an inscription, can be dated from 1561.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 64
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Following Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes) and Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Euripides sought to treat
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 92
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • provide the earliest medieval instance of division of scholarly study into the trivium (grammar, rhetoric and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 905
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, end of the 16th century
    Language
    No language
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    • Testeriano denotes catechism manuscripts in a pictographic script attributed to the Franciscan friar
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 187
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, middle or second half of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Exemplar of the so-called Parisian Bible, a pocket Bible which contains the entire text of the Old and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 601a
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
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    • The Tale of Ise is one of the earliest and most well-known example of uta monogatari, a subgenre of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 601b
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
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    • The Tale of Ise is one of the earliest and most well-known example of uta monogatari, a subgenre of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 66
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, middle of the 18th century
    Language
    German
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    • At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical
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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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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The rounded Gothic script is the product of several different hands and the principal incipits are set
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 150
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th / beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    German
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    • The Schwabenspiegel (mirror of the Swabians) contains a collection of national and feudal laws; during
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 138
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • interrupted in the lower part by a laurel crown flanked by two putti; the inside of the frame was left blank and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 74
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 1071
    Language
    Latin
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    • Thomas and William Boone (1830-1872)
    • Seller: Payne and Foss
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, dedicated to "women in love", describes in the first person the feelings
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 45
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    Spanish
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    • A collection of Spanish poems, addressed to Don Alvar Garcia de Santa Maria, advisor to King John II
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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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    • Mantua and Florence
    • An exceptional testimony of the "Renaissance" that rediscovered Platonism, as opposed to the medieval
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-1
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 40
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Jean Bodel, who was a member of the Brotherhood of Buskers and a bourgeois (middle-class resident) of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 128
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This large, incomplete manuscript in folio format contains the summer portion and the Commune sanctorum
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 708
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, between 1700 and 1800, likely towards 1800
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • The manuscript describes and depicts in its 61 exquisite miniature paintings a religious pilgrimage in