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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 50
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Cornelio) with head and shoulders of bearded man wearing ermine trimmed collar and hat, on gold ground
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 673
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • As opposed to the later widespread version of 101 Distinctiones (Part I), 36 Causae (Part II) and De
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01199
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1410
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • paper title-piece with title in ink; remnants of metallic "nails" or "hinges" on bottom cover (used to
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 76
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Riant 39
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1492
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Summary:Treatise on Christian religion addressed to Jews and Saracenes;
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 298
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1457
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Summary:Addressed to his secretary, he writes of some errors in a little
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01237
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1425-1450?
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Modern vellum binding over cardboard, with smooth spine, and edges speckled in red.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. c. 7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Letters to Brutus, Quintus, Octavian, and Atticus (Ps.-Cicero).
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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 (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 199
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    09uu
    Language
    lat
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Written in Italy in a minuscule script with interlinear and marginal notes; ff. 1r-8r added in a
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 389
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • strong>Summary:Contains the antiphons for the offices in summer, including the sanctorale and
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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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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 122
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, beginning of the 14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 37
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:Often ascribed to Cornificius, but sometimes included in the works
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 7
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This Latin manuscript on astronomical topics includes works by Germanicus, Pliny the Elder and Hyginus
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 124
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872, 1st Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • >Article 2 was transcribed in a humanist script by an unidentified copyist in Florence between 1425 and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O 5.32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c. 1470?]
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Scholars have debated where this book was printed, with some using linguistic evidence to assign
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 269
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 1467 and 1468
    Language
    Latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Hornby, Charles Harry St John, Unspecified, printer and collector
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 86
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One should take note of some of the decorated initials, some of which incorporate figures, especially
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 132
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 13th century (second half)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Charles I d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily (1226-1285)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Friedrich II., assembled in about 1270 at the papal Curia as a collection, which is generally attributed to