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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 46
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 16th century (ca. 1513-1521)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Mantua and Florence
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    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 298
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
    Date
    15th century, 1410 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Mantua and Florence
    • volume produced in 1420 in Florence is among the earliest manuscripts written in Humanist minuscule, and
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 160 A
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula ; Florence, 15th century, 1478-1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • -Note: Date: Border decoration of Ficino's dedicatory letter to Bembo (f.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 127 B
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula ; Florence, 15th century, first quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • According to Gumbert 2009, Sozomenos was making additions to his own manuscript, replacing some leaves
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 289
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1465-1475
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • White vine-stem interlace border enclosing the text on three sides and continuing into initial O(mnis
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan g. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, late
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Historiated initial 'D(omine) with Virgin and Child, bust length.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 214
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Written by the German scribe Johannes Andreae de Colonia (colophon on fol. 201v) who once claimed to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 139
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (about 1460-1470?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The humanistic script is the work of a single scribe, with large golden initials and "bianchi girari"
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bywater adds. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 30 April 1441
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Foliate extensions into margins, with bird and butterflies.
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 99
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century (cf. H. Aubert and A. Dufour) or around 1478-1480 (cf. B. Gagnebin)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • This long Latin poem was intended to thank Sultan Mehmet II for having freed Ferducci’s brother-in-law
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 148
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Illumination attributed to the school of Gherardo and Monte di Giovanni di Miniato (del Fora).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. G. 66
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • White vine-stem border with bird, butterfly and coat of arms with ox head.Humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 231
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Humanistic script attributed to Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest who copied a great many manuscripts
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 118
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    16. Jhd
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Mantua and Florence
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan d. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1455
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • identifiable as Ser Giovanni da Stia, a Florentine notary who copied many dated manuscripts between about 1429 and
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 54
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula, northern part ; Florence, 15th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Origin and date: According to Gumbert 1996.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 850
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • disputationes (“Tusculan Disputations”), pp. 121–248 De finibus bonorum et malorum (“On the Ends of Good and
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Pal.lat.1021
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    1455-1459 und ca. 1473
    Language
    lat
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    • Aristotle (attributed to)
    • Mantua and Florence
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 54
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1470-1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Its rich and elegant illumination is due to the close circle of the most famous florentine miniaturist
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    Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 97 B
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Apennine Peninsula ; Florence, 15th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Mantua and Florence
    • Translation from the Greek and continued by Jerome. - (ff. 107r-110v) Contains the part of the chronicle