Before Loebs - An Early Bilingual Iliad

 BEFORE there were #loebs thee were #bilingual texts of #homer. This is a #Renaissance manuscript of #Homer 's #Iliad with Greek facing Latin .

Note the different style of ornamentation and the way the page layout uses columns and architectural details rather than interlaced floral patterns.

Marginalia of Herodotus

MARGINALIA 

 This is a #renaissance #manuscript of #Herodotus 

The #marginalia were added by scholar called VALLA 

While many scholaras might have added notes in Latin Valla  has chosen to add them in Greek.

Yes it doesnt look like modern Greek or a printed Greek font but remember refugees from the Fall of Byzantium were teaching in Italy. so this style of writing is not the same as that seen on earlier manuscripts or the fonts we use in modern books.