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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • They are richly decorated with gold and cover two thirds of a page; a large number of initials adorned
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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
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    • 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 704
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, first half of the 18th century
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • It is one of the most copied texts in the Hindu tradition and survives in a huge number of manuscripts
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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 124
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • 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 10
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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)
    • for educational use, it contains works of Aristotle, Avicenna, Nicolaus Damascenus, Qusta Ibn-Luca and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 709
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, 1776 or 1777
    Language
    Sanskrit
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    • , and syllables to various parts of the body and the visualisation of the main deity. 2.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 34
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, Armenian Era 1056, 23th of December - AD 1606
    Language
    Armenian
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    • It contains the Four Gospels, the Apocalypse of Saint John, and a Gospelindex devised for liturgical
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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
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    • The handscroll of Daihannya-haramitta-kyō, the Sutra of Great Wisdom, chapter five hundred and forty,
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 147
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Arthurian romance tales in prose: "Estoire del Graal", "Merlin", "Suite Merlin", "Queste del saint Graal", 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 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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    • 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 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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    • Especially parts I, III, IV, and V of the Buch der Natur contain marginal notes and interlinear glosses
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, V-7.2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1 February 1611
    Language
    Spanish
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    • author of many comedias de santos, finished this Historia de Barlán y Josafat, comedia in three acts and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 160
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Theban and Trojan sagas held an important place in the literature of the middle ages.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, late 10th century / early 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Manuscript CB 88, which combines the Odes, the Epodes, and the Carmen saeculare, a piece interpreted
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 47
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Carmina by Catullus contained in this codex was written in a humanistic cursive, attributed to the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • It is usually attributed to the Florentine Dominican Jacopo Passavanti (ca. 1302 – 1357); however, this
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 550
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1623/24
    Language
    Persian
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    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains the story of Prince Seyf ol-Molûk and Princess Badî`ol-Jamâl
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Diego de San Pedro is a Spanish pre-Renaissance poet and storyteller; perhaps he was of Hebrew origin