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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)
    • Thucydides fully achieves the work of a historian, as he shows the origins of the Peloponnesian War and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 135
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (about 1350-1370?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • , describes the health benefits of about thirty healing springs found in the region around Pozzuoli and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 82
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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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    • England and Netherlands
    • claimed it had belonged to Wilton Abbey, in Wiltshire, where its readership would have been noble women and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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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)
    • initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
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    e-codices
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    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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 79
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1308
    Language
    French
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    • Guillaume de Loris and Jean de Meung (Meun) are the authors of the Roman de la Rose, one of the masterpieces
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 97
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    e-codices
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    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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    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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    • 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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 50
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    e-codices
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    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
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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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    • by Quintus Curtius Rufus, which is augmented by texts from Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, Aulus Gellius and
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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 and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • 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, 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 49
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One of these contains the dedication of the work and shows four figures, identifiable as Philip the Good
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 148
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition of the Tristan and
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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 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)
    • by the Glossa ordinaria, the so-called "Magna glossa" by Franciscus Accursius, an interlinear gloss and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 119
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 17th century, around 1548 with supplements up to the beginning of the 17th century
    Language
    German
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    • The manuscript consists of three parts – one of parchment (ff. 1-27) and two of paper (ff. 28-39 and
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • jurists of Bologna on the "Corpus Iuris Civilis" as well as on others, such as the "Codex Justinianus" and
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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