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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 147
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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 174
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This ethical work by Boccaccio, originally written between 1353 and 1356 and expanded in 1373, addresses
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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
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    • of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic couplets celebrating the lives of its hero and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
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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 149
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This translation is also based on Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation, completed in 1513.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 40
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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
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Thirteen miniatures and a number of filigreed initials adorn the alexandrine monorhyme stanzas of the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
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    • René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem (1409-1480)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • allegorical poem, composed in 1455, invites people to live a holy life by means of a dialogue between soul and
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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
    • The satires were very popular in the Middle Ages and beyond, as even Jean-Jacques Rousseau borrowed some
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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 82
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • claimed it had belonged to Wilton Abbey, in Wiltshire, where its readership would have been noble women and
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 79
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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 53
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, about 1470-1475
    Language
    French
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    • by Quintus Curtius Rufus, which is augmented by texts from Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, Aulus Gellius and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-5.1
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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 49
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One of these contains the dedication of the work and shows four figures, identifiable as Philip the Good
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition of the Tristan and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 100
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • by the Glossa ordinaria, the so-called "Magna glossa" by Franciscus Accursius, an interlinear gloss and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, R-49.2
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, December 1740
    Language
    French
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    • a half years old, and Jean-Antoine Bonnot de Mably, called Monsieur de Condillac, four and a half years
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • He lived at the courts of Brabant, France, and Flanders and composed various chansons de geste and courtly