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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 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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    • This text, originally written at the beginning of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic
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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
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 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)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 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, King of Naples and Jerusalem (1409-1480)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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, 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 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 82
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • England and Netherlands
    • 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, R-49.2
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    18th century, December 1740
    Language
    French
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    • The long Mémoire, dedicated to the older boy, emphasizes the “educational mission” and experience with
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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)
    • Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental work which attests 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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 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
    • 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 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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    • 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 11
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • The Estoire de la guerre sainte, attributed to Ambroise d’Evreux, informs us that the Chanson d’Aspremont
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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 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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    • 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 79
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    e-codices
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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 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 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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 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 96-2
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and