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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 165
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1412-1415
    Language
    French
    • Master of the Mazarine
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • , Duke of Burgundy, in 1409 wrote a composite text that is simultaneously a mirror for princes, a collection
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This book of hours in the Parisian fashion is richly illuminated and was made for the diocese of Nantes
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 5
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
    • Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
    • In this work, written at the end of the 14th century in Valencia, the author describes the universe of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1410
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/2
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, about 1410
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, last quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    French
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • This text contains an adaptation of several narrative parts of the Bible in Old French.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 102
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1320
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • This manuscript is a hagiographic compilation in French prose which recounts the lives of the apostles
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/2
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1400-1450, additional pages XVI-XVII
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 77
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • were known at the time.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 57
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, ca. 1402
    Language
    French
    • probably the Loire region
    • The Legenda aurea is one of the most copied texts in all of the medieval Occident.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 178
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1353
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Roman de la Rose is a poetic work of approximately 22,000 octosyllabic verses.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 34
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, second half of the 15th century (cf. F. Huot)
    Language
    French, Latin
    • workshop of the Abbey of St. Martin of Tours (France, Indre-et-Loire) (cf. F. Huot)
    • This manuscript from the second half of the 15th century is a book of hours for use in the Abbey of St
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 91
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century (cf. A. Dufour) or around 1460 (cf. B. Gagnebin)
    Language
    French, Latin
    • probably the Loire region
    • With a beautiful binding à la "Du Seuil", this 15th century manuscript contains the Policraticus (The
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 181
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 3rd quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French
    • probably the Loire region
    • At the behest of Jeanne de Laval, the wife of King René of Anjou, in 1465 a cleric from Angers produced
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1450-1480
    Language
    French
    • The Florentine writer and notary Brunetto Latini went into exile in 1260, after the Guelphs lost the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485-1490
    Language
    French
    • In the 1240s, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen wrote a Latin treatise on falconry (De arte venandi cum avibus
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 189
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1470
    Language
    French
    • Tristan in Prose is a 13th century prose romance of which a multitude of copies were made over the course
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 92
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, German, French, Ancient Greek
    • This manuscript, copied in the years 1460-1480, contains De regimine principum by Aegidius Romanus, decorated
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 6
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1417
    Language
    French
    • In 1389, the Franciscan monk Jean de Souabe translated into French the Horologium sapientiae by the mystic