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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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    • Padua or Venice
    • This 14th century Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental
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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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    • Marie de France (attributed to)
    • or Flanders
    • 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 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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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
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    • or Flanders
    • 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 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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    • Utterson, Edward Vernon (1775 or 1776-1856)
    • or Flanders
    • The ink wash drawings are very similar to those found in Ms. 9650-52 of the Königliche Bibliothek of
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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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    • or Flanders
    • 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 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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    • or Flanders
    • 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 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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    • Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216
    • or Flanders
    • used in CB 147 make it a particularly unusual manuscript: the heroes of the Arthurian tales are made to
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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 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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    • were very popular in the Middle Ages and beyond, as even Jean-Jacques Rousseau borrowed some words from
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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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    • 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, R-49.1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, not dated [ca. 1764]
    Language
    French
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    • Letter VII, where this page comes from, supports the right of representation when it comes to correcting
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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
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    • 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 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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    • or Flanders
    • The various tales are presented here in an order unique to the  to the CB 96 manuscript.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 168
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • octosyllabic couplets celebrating the lives of its hero and his sons; after a long preamble going back to
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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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    • or Flanders
    • The manuscript thus clarifies which episodes from the Arthurian tales comprise the complete body of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 82
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • 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 93
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, end of the 14th century
    Language
    French
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    • or Flanders
    • This parchment manuscript from the time around 1400 contains a work by the Dominican sermonist Jacques
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, B-24.1
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, n.d. [Paris, around January 1797]
    Language
    French
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    • 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 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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    • or Flanders
    • In about 1310 the Bishop of Liège, Thibaut de Bar, commissioned Jacques de Longuyon to write the Vœux