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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 40
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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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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Jean Bodel, who was a member of the Brotherhood of Buskers and a bourgeois (middle-class resident) of
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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
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • 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 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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    • Maurice of Sully, c 1120-1196, Bishop of Paris
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This manuscript produced at the end of the 13th century contains a copy of the Arthurian romance tales
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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
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    • René I, Duke of Anjou (1409-1480)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This manuscript contains the tract Le Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance by King René of Anjou.
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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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    • Charles, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Diego de San Pedro is a Spanish pre-Renaissance poet and storyteller; perhaps he was of Hebrew origin
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
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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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    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • 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 148
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Tristan, written by Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition
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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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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This manuscript, commissioned by the bibliophile Antoine of Bourgogne in 1460, contains the Epître d’
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 129
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 12th century (middle?)
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Except for the prologue, the satires are written in hexameter; there are a modest number of verses (about
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke of La Vallière (1708-1780)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and
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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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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • of the most important book decorators of the late middle ages : Jean Fouquet (BnF, ms. fr. 247).
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • This ethical work by Boccaccio, originally written between 1353 and 1356 and expanded in 1373, addresses
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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 67
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, second half of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
    • : the knightly romance "Gui de Warewic" (Guy of Warwick) and the Anglo-Norman rhyming chronicle the "
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 116
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Of all the 19 surviving manuscripts and fragments containing the Prophesies de Merlin, only CB 116 transmits
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 113
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • CB 113 is a copy of a manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains a collection
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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 18
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Abbey of Tongerloo, Diocese of Cambrai, Deanery of Antwerp
    • 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 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)
    • work which attests to the 14th century’s interest in the history of Roman law.