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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • its usefulness, this manuscript serves to demonstrate a high level of achievement in the calligraphic and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-45.1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
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    • Michelangelo (1475-1564) addressed this sonnet and his dedication to one of his closest friends, the
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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 37
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (1360-1370)
    Language
    Italian
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    • The text is written as a prosimetrum — alternating prose and verse — as is immediately obvious from the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 172
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1490
    Language
    Italian
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
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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 57
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Copied in 1378 by Francesco di maestro Tura of Cesena, who included both a date and a signature at the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
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    • The poet had submitted his original work to various humanists and high-ranking scholars, and he took
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • his youth, praised for the subtlety of its psychological approach, mixes autobiographical elements and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The frontispiece of this manuscript is richly decorated with foliage in all four margins and initials
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 78
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1370?)
    Language
    Latin, Italian
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    • The margins of the manuscript reveal written traces of the collaborative efforts of the copyist and the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 94
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 55
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, first half of the 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)