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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 28
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 141
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1466
    Language
    Latin
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    • Goldschmidt, Ernst Philip, Unspecified, of Add MS 41997
    • Mantua and Florence
    • The manuscript belonged to Antonello Petrucci d’Aversa († 1487), who was active in the Aragonese chancery
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In his De bello Peloponensium, Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 53
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1470-1475
    Language
    French
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    • This French translation of the story of Alexander, destined to belong to Charles the Bold, was commissioned
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 14
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Unspecified, of Add MS 43460
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This Latin parchment manuscript from the 14th century contains a comprehensive commentary by jurists
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 146
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • 10th century manuscript of Italian origin, which contains numerous works of rhetoric: the Ars rhetorica
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 103
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 14th century, 1378 / second quarter of the 15th century (Wetzel, S. 147) as well as about 1430 (Hayer 1998, S. 160)
    Language
    Bavarian, Latin
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    • East Upper German-speaking region (Region of Bavaria/Austria)
    • East Upper German-speaking region (Region of Bavaria/Austria)
    • This part of the manuscript features marginal corrections and glosses (especially for medically relevant
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 90
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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)
    • Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 120
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th or 11th-12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint
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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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    • Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
    • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Unspecified, of Add MS 43460
    • 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 177
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gariopontus of Salerno, d c 1050
    • Glauconem de medendi methodo I-II with a Liber tercius by a pseudo-Galen, the Aurelius and Esculapius
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 137
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (beginning?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • In this work from Plato's most productive period, Phaedo tells of the death of Socrates from a witness's
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 184
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century, around 1482-1485
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • A luxurious copy of the Life of Aesop, part historical and part legendary, that was compiled around 1300
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 8
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Heron of Alexandria
    • Multiple treatises by Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 18
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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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    • Abbey of Tongerloo, Diocese of Cambrai, Deanery of Antwerp
    • In the middle of the 12th century the Latin works of Statius and Virgil as well as adaptations of Homer
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 150
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th / beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    German
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    • Southwestern region of German
    • 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 172
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1490
    Language
    Italian
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    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 91
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1468
    Language
    Bavarian, German
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    • Carthusian monastery of Allerengelberg (Italy) (?)
    • South Tyrol (Carthusian monastery of Allerengelberg?)
    • This manuscript from the southern Tyrol was produced by two scribes in the year 1468 and bound as one
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 73
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1461
    Language
    Bavarian
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    • East Upper German-speaking region (Region of Bavaria/Austria)
    • This manuscript contains the German version of the Gesta Romanorum, a collection of anecdotes and tales
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • work which attests to the 14th century’s interest in the history of Roman law.