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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, B-24.1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, n.d. [Paris, around January 1797]
    Language
    French
    • The comedy The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro is a vivid satire of society during the Ancien Régime
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, late 10th century / early 11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • 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 56
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, end of the 14th century
    Language
    Italian
    • The "Codex Ricasoli Firidolfi", written on paper at the end of the 14th century, provides important evidence
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 78
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1370?)
    Language
    Latin, Italian
    • Its 187 miniatures crafted by Giustino da Forli portray the most important scenes of the Trojan War against
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 163
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This elegant codex, written in humanist cursive, contains the Elegiae by the Latin elegiac poet Tibullus
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 154
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 15th century, 11th century and 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • A precursor to the rediscovery of Statius during the Renaissance of the 12th century this manuscript
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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
    • 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 601a
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
    • 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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Japanese
    • 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 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 168
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
    • The manuscript held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer contains the only exemplar of the long Anglo-Norman
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 706
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (?)
    Language
    Prakrit
    • This unbound manuscript contains one of the most copied texts of the Śvetāmbara Jaina tradition, the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
    • This "paperolle" from the famous "Code Gonzague" (held in the Biblioteca Ariostea of Ferrara) is a working
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 50
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This codex contains De senectute, De amicitia, the Paradoxa ad Brutum by Cicero, the Synonyma by Pseudo-Cicero
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 18
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
    • 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 71
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • The Roman de Fauvel is a French poem in verse, written in the 14th century by various authors, among
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 43
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    English
    • This parchment manuscript from the end of the 15th century contains the "Chronicle of London" as well
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-45.1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
    • Michelangelo (1475-1564) addressed this sonnet and his dedication to one of his closest friends, the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 164
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
    • At least three scribes shared the work of copying this imposing manuscripts of over 650 leaves in the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 36
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, first quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    German
    • Written in two columns in bastarda script with a decoration of fleuronné initials, from the first quarter