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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 142
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • In the foreword to CB 142, Prudentius underscores his desire to please God through the work he does,
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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
    • unreliable--etymologies of the words, Isidore collected in his work the whole of ancient knowledge, in order to
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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
    • Carefully copied by a single scribe at the end of the 13th century in England, this manuscript was given to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
    • The Antiquitates iudaicae recounts the history of the Jewish nation from Genesis to the year 66 according
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 31
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript contains the Song of Songs with a lacuna (6.5-8) due to the loss of a sheet.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 11
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • The Estoire de la guerre sainte, attributed to Ambroise d’Evreux, informs us that the Chanson d’Aspremont
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 106
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Two contiguous fragments from the same leaf, which used to be part of a luxury-lectionary of the New
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 3
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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
    • This piece, which has served to pass on its author's name for posterity, is his oldest known surviving
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 34
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, Armenian Era 1056, 23th of December - AD 1606
    Language
    Armenian
    • Special attention should be drawn to the illuminations of the canon tables painted according to the text
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 15
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    French
    • Divided into three books, the work begins with an outline of the history of the kings of France up to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 19
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1480
    Language
    Latin
    • Elizabeth of Schönau, as well as prayers to Mary written in another hand.
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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
    • at the beginning of this manuscript of the Metamorphoses and the Fasti of Ovid shows its connections to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 603
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, very likely 12th century
    Language
    Chinese
    • It was introduced to China from India by the monk, scholar and translator Xuanzang, who translated the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 189
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
    • In about 1310 the Bishop of Liège, Thibaut de Bar, commissioned Jacques de Longuyon to write the Vœux
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 20
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
    • This work recounts the life of the Constable for Charles V, from his childhood to his death.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 501
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 1559
    Language
    Persian
    • of the “One Hundred Sayings by Ali,” a collection of sayings and proverbs traditionally attributed to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 143
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    Latin
    • manuscript contains the Romuleon, a collection of anonymous Latin texts about the history of Rome attributed to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
    • This allegorical poem, composed in 1455, invites people to live a holy life by means of a dialogue between
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 114
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • In the absence of a title page, the decoration is limited to a series of initials, created by two different
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 21
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Unlike most similar surviving manuscripts, it does not belong to the Ashkenazic tradition, but is instead