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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 189
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, around 1310
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • In about 1310 the Bishop of Liège, Thibaut de Bar, commissioned Jacques de Longuyon to write the Vœux
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 113
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Marie de France (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • CB 113 is a copy of a manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains a collection
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1470
    Language
    French
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    • René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem (1409-1480)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This allegorical poem, composed in 1455, invites people to live a holy life by means of a dialogue between
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 9
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    12th century, 11th century, 11th/12th century / 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • During the entire middle ages in the occident, the texts of Aristotle and Boethius were well circulated
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 92
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • provide the earliest medieval instance of division of scholarly study into the trivium (grammar, rhetoric and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 187
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, middle or second half of the 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Exemplar of the so-called Parisian Bible, a pocket Bible which contains the entire text of the Old and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-1
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 40
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Seller: Payne and Foss
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Jean Bodel, who was a member of the Brotherhood of Buskers and a bourgeois (middle-class resident) of
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 181
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • They are richly decorated with gold and cover two thirds of a page; a large number of initials adorned
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 10
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • for educational use, it contains works of Aristotle, Avicenna, Nicolaus Damascenus, Qusta Ibn-Luca and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 147
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century, end of the 13th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Arthurian romance tales in prose: "Estoire del Graal", "Merlin", "Suite Merlin", "Queste del saint Graal", and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 160
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1469
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Theban and Trojan sagas held an important place in the literature of the middle ages.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Diego de San Pedro is a Spanish pre-Renaissance poet and storyteller; perhaps he was of Hebrew origin
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 96-2
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century (1410-1430)
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 49
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1460
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • One of these contains the dedication of the work and shows four figures, identifiable as Philip the Good
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 148
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition of the Tristan and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 174
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This ethical work by Boccaccio, originally written between 1353 and 1356 and expanded in 1373, addresses
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 173
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript from (northeastern) France was produced in the 9th century in the region of Paris-Reims and
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 20
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This work recounts the life of the Constable for Charles V, from his childhood to his death.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 143
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    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • manuscript contains the Romuleon, a collection of anonymous Latin texts about the history of Rome attributed to