Bodmer Library

Bodmer Foundation
LocationCologny, Canton of Geneva Edit this on Wikidata
Coordinates46°12′55″N 6°10′50″E / 46.2153°N 6.1806°E / 46.2153; 6.1806
Typememory institution
museum Edit this on Wikidata
Heritage designationclass A Swiss cultural property of national significance Edit this on Wikidata
CountrySwitzerland Edit this on Wikidata
DirectorJacques Berchtold Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.fondationbodmer.ch
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Partial view of the Bodmer Foundation (Cologny, Switzerland).
Example of a 14th-century precious book of the foundation.

The Bodmer Foundation (French: Fondation Bodmer) is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious editions. It is located in Cologny, Switzerland just outside Geneva.

Also known as Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (or Bodmer Library), it is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.[1] The library was established by Martin Bodmer and is famous as the home of the Bodmer Papyri. Some of these papyri are among the oldest remaining copies of the New Testament. Some manuscripts are written in Greek, others in Coptic (e.g. Papyrus Bodmer III). The first of the manuscripts was purchased in 1956 (Papyrus Bodmer II — P66). It also houses a copy of the Gutenberg Bible.

  1. ^ "Kantonsliste A-Objekte:Geneva" (PDF). KGS Inventar (in German). Federal Office of Civil Protection. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2010.