Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula

Private Collection

Thought to be the earliest Book of Hours produced in Italy. The Officiolum di Francesco da Barberino is a canonical prayer book featuring 70 illuminated folios.

Italian Commentary

Florence, Seminario Arcivescovile Maggiore of Florence

The Codex Rustici is an illustrated account of Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici’s pilgrimage from Florence to the Church of of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1441. The manuscript is notable for its depictions of architecture in early fifteenth century Florence.

High Quality Color Facsimile

Milan, Bibloteca Trivulziana, MSS Codici Trivulziano 2167, 2163

High Quality Color Facsimile with Italian Commentary

St. Petersburg, Russian National Library

The Portolan Atlas was produced by Genoese cartographer, Battista Agnese, who developed a map-making workshop in 16th-century Venice.

High Quality Color Facsimile

New York City, The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.69, fols. 38v-39

The Farnese Hours is a Renaissance book of hours painted by Giulio Clovio for cardinal Alessandro Farnese in 1546.

High Quality Color Facsimile with English Interspersed Transcription

High Quality Color Facsimile with English Introduction and Interspersed Transcription

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms lat. 9474

The Grandes Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne was made by Jean Bourdichon in the beginning of the 16th century. The manuscript has 49 full-page miniatures and numerous marginal illuminations, which depict realistic foliage, insects, and animals.

Black and White Unbound Plates with French Introduction

Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik"

The Mercator Map was made using an updated cartographic technique called the Mercator projection, where bearing sailing courses were mapped to straight line on the plane. The technique and map were developed by Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century German-Flemish cartographer and geographer.

High Quality Black and White Facsimile