Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula

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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

Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare Ivrea, MS 31 LXXXVI

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Cassino, Abbey of Monte Cassino, Codex Casinensis 97

The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius was first written in the 4th century and was copied several times throughout the Middle Ages until the 12th century.

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Codex Vindobonensis 93

The Medicina Antiqua is an elaborately decorated copy of the Herbarius complex, a medieval anthology of medicine. The Medicina Antiqua was produced in early 13th-century Italy when medical education was based on Imperial Roman traditions, before Muslim versions of classical medicine was translated.

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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Latinus fol. 416 d, and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apolica Vaticana, MS lat. 3256

The Vergilius Augusteus is a late antique manuscript containing works by Virgil, including Georgics and the Aeneid. Only seven leaves of the manuscript have survived. The pages are not illustrated but do contain the earliest known instances of decorated initials. Unlike later illuminated initials, the letters here do not mark the division of a new text.

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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.

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Rome, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Ms. Pal. Lat. 1071

The Art of Falconry was written by Frederick II (r. 1212-1220) Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily in the mid-13th century. This facsimile is a copy of the edition that was commissioned and illuminated for Frederick’s son, Manfred.

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Milan, Bibloteca Trivulziana, MSS Codici Trivulziano 2167, 2163

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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.

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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.

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Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Mss. BR 397 e LF 22

The production of books of hours in Italy began much later than other places. Among the most famous is the Visconti Hours, which was made for Giangaleazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, roughly between the years of 1390 and 1428.

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