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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 31
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Glossa ordinaria is written on the first sheet (1r-1v); it contains a heretofore unknown commentary
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 188
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, around 1230
    Language
    Latin
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    • It is possible that the codex was produced in about 1230 in the area of Cologne in a scholastic circle
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 77
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Among these is Guido Aretinus, a Tuscan monk of the 10th century who is regarded as the inventor of solmisation
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 161
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 1280
    Language
    Latin
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    • "Even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 80
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, 11th century, 13th century, 10th, 11th, 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The second part (f. 21r-27v) probably is the original core of the codex, to which the other two pieces
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 165
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Among the famous previous owners of this codex is Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755), whose ex-libris
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 58
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The rounded Gothic script is the product of several different hands and the principal incipits are set
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 108
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This text by Lucan is accompanied by marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands, which are partly
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 182
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • As codex Wallersteinensis I.2, this text, together with four other textual witnesses, is the basis for
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 52
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, beginning of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • While Cicero is regarded today mainly as a philosopher and politician, he was regarded during the middle
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 71
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French, Latin
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    • The Roman de Fauvel is a French poem in verse, written in the 14th century by various authors, among
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 16th century (ca. 1513-1521)
    Language
    Latin
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    • The decoration is attributed to the famous Florentine illuminator Attavante degli Attavanti († 1525)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 162
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • This parchment manuscript is extraordinarily beautiful in its illustrations, especially the two "putti
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 47
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The frontispiece in grisaille with gold highlights is framed by motifs in the manner of antiquity with
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 125
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1320?), notes from the 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • the court circle of Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • The text De verborum significatu by the Latin grammarian Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 138
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1480 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • The first page is also decorated with a frame of floral interlace, which is interrupted in the lower
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 120
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century, 12th century, 11th or 11th-12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • It is preceded by a prologue by Jerome and is followed by short prayer by Gregory of Nazianzus, also