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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 136
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of 14th - beginning of 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • based on Aristotle, CB 136 was copied by the hand of the great Florentine humanist Leonardo Bruni, also
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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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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    • 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 64
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • Following Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes) and Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Euripides sought to treat
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 106
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The two pieces were later also used for numerous clumsy drawings, graffiti and arithmetic exercises.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 184
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    e-codices
    Library
    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 104
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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 85
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The text by Homer is accompanied by interlinear and marginal scholii and commentaries by the Byzantine
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 115
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • This Greek manuscript was copied on paper and, thanks to an inscription, can be dated from 1561.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 25
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, end of the 10th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • The volume is decorated with two valuable full-page miniatures representing Luke and Mark against gold
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, about 1491
    Language
    Ancient Greek
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    • , and The Clouds, the comedy that made the Athenian writer Aristophanes famous.