12 results

  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, about 1491
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Although the Aesopian tradition enjoyed great popularity during the middle ages, thanks to the dissemination
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
    • 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.
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 115
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • This Greek manuscript was copied on paper and, thanks to an inscription, can be dated from 1561.
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 64
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Following Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes) and Sophocles (Oedipus the King, Euripides sought to treat
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 136
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, end of 14th - beginning of 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Mantua and Florence
    • An exceptional testimony of the "Renaissance" that rediscovered Platonism, as opposed to the medieval
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 106
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Two contiguous fragments from the same leaf, which used to be part of a luxury-lectionary of the New
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 184
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century, around 1482-1485
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Mantua and Florence
    • A luxurious copy of the Life of Aesop, part historical and part legendary, that was compiled around 1300
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 104
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 15th century (around 1465-1475?)
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • decoration consists of numerous initials with bianchi girari (white vine scroll), with side borders and
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 85
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • The text by Homer is accompanied by interlinear and marginal scholii and commentaries by the Byzantine
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, about 1541
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • Multiple treatises by Archimedes are brought together in Codex Bodmer 8, notably On the Sphere and Cylinder
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 3
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, end of the 15th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • This piece, which has served to pass on its author's name for posterity, is his oldest known surviving
  • Thumbnail
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 25
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    10th century, end of the 10th century
    Language
    Ancient Greek
    • The volume is decorated with two valuable full-page miniatures representing Luke and Mark against gold