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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 329
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    13uu
    Language
    ita
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1466-1519)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 280
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Life of the Virgin and of Christ.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 9464
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1475
    Language
    ita
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    • Printer of Jacobus de Forlivio, 'Expositio'
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Data Source(s): Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 57
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • John of Burgundy
    • 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, Cod. Bodmer 12
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • There is only a single medieval Italian translation of Augustine’s De civitate Dei (City of God), an
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 07211
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    16--?
    Language
    Italian
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    • Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Fine italic script; varying number of long lines per pagesWritten
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1786
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 94
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1450
    Language
    Italian
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Leonardo Bruni Aretino, De primo bello Punico libri duo, in Italian translation, written in the 3rd quarter
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1350–1375
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • hand at the start of Purgatorio.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 2Q inf. 1.45
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1488
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Franciscus Philelphus and Hieronymus Squarzaficus) [Italian] (Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 85
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1463-1464
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Giovanni Boccaccio’s vernacular romance of the story of Florio, who takes the name of Filocolo as a disguise
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 998
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1601–1700
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This is one of the many manuscripts of seventeenth-century Italian cantatas now in Christ Church Library
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. icon. 133
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1502 - 1506
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ita, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/por, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • first maritime charts were produced at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
    Date
    16th century, about 1577-1591
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This “libro di ricordanze” belonged to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; it is probably comprised of the notes
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 422
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    ita
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Decoration: The opening words of the prologue "Legete me amanti recognoscendo qui mecho i vostri
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01207
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1550
    Language
    Italian
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    • Benedict of Nursia
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • With the autograph of Lucrezia del Bino or Bindo on leaf 1 (2nd group).
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 181
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1476
    Language
    lat, ita
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • decorated with red and blue initials with pen flourishes.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch