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Location: Cologny
Library / Collection: Fondation Martin Bodmer
Shelfmark: Cod. Bodmer 49
Manuscript title: Christine of Pisan, Epitre d'Othea
Caption: Parchment · 150 ff. · 28.0 x 20.0 cm · France · about 1460
Language: French
Manuscript summary: This manuscript, commissioned by the bibliophile Antoine of Bourgogne in 1460, contains the "Epître d’Othea" by Christine de Pisan, decorated with about a hundred masterful miniatures (a complete pictorial cycle). One of these contains the dedication of the work and shows four figures, identifiable as Philip the Good, Charles the Brave, and the two noble bastards David and Anton of Burgundy.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.5076/e-codices-cb-0049
Permanent URL: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0049
How to quote: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 49: Christine of Pisan, Epitre d'Othea (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0049)
Online since: 07/25/2006
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