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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 85
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript is remarkable because of its contents as well as its age: it is a dictionary of Tironian
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 60
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century, around 1346
    Language
    Latin
    • It is a distinctive testimony to the masterly page layout of legal texts, where the main text is usually
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 50
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    9th century, around 825
    Language
    Latin
    • ‘Venerable’ is the term that comes to mind for describing this manuscript.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 367
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    16th century, beginning of the 16th century, after 1511
    Language
    Latin, French
    • 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. lat. 124
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Latin
    • It is preceded by a letter from Budé to Pope Julius II, to whom the translation is addressed.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 124
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript is closely connected to that glorious past era.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 172
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, mid to late 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This volume, which was produced in Italy in the mid to late 15th century, is a collection of letters,
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 101
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 2nd third of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Some of his speeches - the Orationes - were rediscovered by humanists, as is attested by this copy.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 54
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1470-1480
    Language
    Latin
    • Its rich and elegant illumination is due to the close circle of the most famous florentine miniaturist
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 6
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    9th century, second quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The manuscript is decorated with, among others, two initials embellished with interlace and with canonical
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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
    • 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. lat. 37
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, seond half of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • decorated with colorful floral borders and fine miniatures and augmented with gold leaf, the manuscript is
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 22
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    9th century, around 830
    Language
    Latin
    • The manuscript is valuable for its age as well as for the picture poem inserted into the commentary on
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 269
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1467 and 1468
    Language
    Latin
    • This volume is a collection of letters, made in 1467 and 1468 in Naples for Roberto da Sanseverino, Prince
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 147
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
    • full-page and framed miniatures show identical composition, where the main scene, presented in close-up, is
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 41
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    12th century, third quarter of the 12th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Hugh of Amiens, archbishop of Rouen (1130-1164), is the author of the two theological treatises, Sur
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. l.e. 209a
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Latin, Occitan
    • part of the remaining Waldensian manuscripts, now dispersed across various European libraries, this is
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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
    • 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. 37a
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    10th century, beginning of the 10th century (cf. A. von Euw)
    Language
    Latin
    • The script is Carolingian minuscule and the initials are decorated with gold, silver, and minium.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 30
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • According to Huot, this is the oldest liturgical manuscript to have entered the collection of the Bibliothèque