In this issue of the e-codices newsletter: 1. e-codices – 2019-2020 / 2. The Golden ratio: Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci / 3. Flora of the Ladies of Geneva. The e-codices newsletter provides information about the latest updates, highlights, and activities of our project. We are delighted to count you among our readers!
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e-codices Newsletter

Issue no 35 - 9 April 2019

In this issue:

  1. e-codices – 2019-2020
  2. The Golden ratio: Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Flora of the Ladies of Geneva

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2. The Golden ratio: Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci

The Bibliothèque de Genève owns one of two surviving presentation copies of Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione. While the Biblioteca Ambrosiana's manuscript (Ms. 170 sup.) was given to Galeazzo da Sanseverino, the Geneva manuscript was presented to Ludovico Sforza (“il Moro”) in 1498. The long-held opinion that the polyhedra at the end of the manuscript were drawn by Leonardo da Vinci is now considered less certain. Luca and Leonardo were indeed friends, worked at the same court at the same time, and pursued similar interests. Even if Leonardo's influence cannot be denied, there is no direct evidence that the drawings were made by him. Currently the manuscript is on display as part of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci. La scienza prima della scienza at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (until 30 June 2019); from 24 October 2019 it will be shown at the Louvre as part of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci.

Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. l.e. 210 – Luca Pacioli, De divina proportione

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3. Flora of the Ladies of Geneva

The Geneva Conservatory and Botanical Gardens holds the 13 volumes on Mexican flora that are known as the "Flore des Dames de Genève" (Flora of the Ladies of Geneva). This title recalls the extraordinary feat of reproduction that was performed at the behest of the scholar Auguste-Pyrame de Candolle by artists, students and teachers from Geneva's "Ecole de dessin" (drawing school), most of whom were women. Within only eight days, not fewer than 800 drawings were produced, before the valuable collection of botanical drawings of Mexican flora from Sessé, Moçiño und D. Cervantes' Spanish expedition of 1787-1803 had to be returned to Moçiño.

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