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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
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end of
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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
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Bible Historiale is a Bible edition translated by Guyart de Moulins into French prose at the end of
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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
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    • This text contains an adaptation of several narrative parts of the Bible in Old French.
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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
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    • John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • beautiful binding à la "Du Seuil", this 15th century manuscript contains the Policraticus (The government of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 178
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    14th century, 1353
    Language
    French
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    • Jean, Duke of Berry (1340-1416)
    • 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
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    • Abbey of St. Martin (France)
    • 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. fr. 77
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Master of Orose
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • At the request of Jean II of France, between 1354 and 1356, the Dominican Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 176
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, 1380-1389
    Language
    French
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    • Charles, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527)
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Ovide moralisé is a poem consisting of 72,000 octosyllables.
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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
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Master of Luçon
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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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
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    • Master of the Mazarine
    • Pierre Le Fructier, called Salmon, Secretary to Charles VI, King of France
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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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
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Master of Luçon
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 85
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1460-1465
    Language
    French
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    • William of Tyre
    • This history of the Crusades is a translation of Guillaume de Tyr's Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 80
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Marbod of Rennes, c 1035-1123, Bishop of Rennes
    • This collection, dated to the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, contains
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 92
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, German, French, Ancient Greek
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    • Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316
    • Romanus, decorated with a miniature in which the author (Aegidius Romanus) dedicates the book to the king of
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 76
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1475-1500
    Language
    French
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    • Illuminator: Master of Edward IV
    • Vasco de Lucena translated Quintus Curtius’ history of Alexander into French at the request of Isabella
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 169
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485
    Language
    French
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    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • At the end of the 1480s Gaston Febus wrote a tract, in French and in prose, on hunting, known under the
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, third quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • 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. 170
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    15th century, 16th century, ca. 1485-1490
    Language
    French
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    • Louis de Bruges, Lord of La Gruthuyse (1427-1492)
    • Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515)
    • 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. lat. 367
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
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    16th century, beginning of the 16th century, after 1511
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • area of Lyon
    • Philibert de Viry’s manuscript is one of the rare Books of Hours for use in the Diocese of Geneva to
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 70/1
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, ca. 1457-1482
    Language
    French
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    • area of Lyon
    • The chronicle, which consists of 6 books, is a compilation of mythological, biblical and legendary stories