Bodmer Codex of Visions

The Bodmer Codex of Visions (TM 59994 ) is a Greek papyrus codex acquired from a Cypriot dealer in 1956 by Martin Bodmer. It is still kept in his foundation in Cologny (Switzerland) today. Dated to the 5th century and probably from Akhmim in Egypt, it contains about 10 early christian poems, and the now apocryph composition The Shepherd of Hermas. But it is most famous for the Vision of Dorotheus, a poetic composition in Homeric style in which a certain Dorotheus describes his ascent to the Kingdom of Heaven, portrayed in highly imperial fashion.