15th century illuminated manuscripts from italy

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Breviary of Pope Sixtus IV - Public domain dedication image

Breviary of Pope Sixtus IV - Public domain dedication image

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Asconius håndskrift Paris - Public domain dedication image

Asconius håndskrift Paris - Public domain dedication image

Dansk: Gengivelse af håndskrift med Asconius-kommentarerne. Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Metamorfosis Joan d'Aragó, illuminated manuscript

Metamorfosis Joan d'Aragó, illuminated manuscript

An illustration from a manuscript in Latin belonging made for Joan d'Aragó. Occitan : Illustracion tracha d'un manuscrich comandat per Joan d'Aragon

15th-century painters - Antiphonary - WGA15996

15th-century painters - Antiphonary - WGA15996

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Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-1-love

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-1-love

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Love. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-2-chastity

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-2-chastity

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-3-death

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-3-death

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Death. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-4-fame

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-4-fame

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Fame. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-5-time

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-5-time

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Time. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-6-eternity

Petrarch-triumph-ital-62-6-eternity

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Eternity. Public domain reproduction of Italian medieval illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

15th-century painters - Cassianus Corvina (one of the pages) - WGA15956

15th-century painters - Cassianus Corvina (one of the pages) - WGA1595...

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Aristeas, Epistula ad Philocratem (BSB Clm 627)

Aristeas, Epistula ad Philocratem (BSB Clm 627)

Epistula ad Philocratem, known in English as Letter to Philocrates or Letter of Aristeas. Latin translation by Mattia Palmieri. Manuscript of cirсa 1480. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB Clm 627). Vigne... More

Philostratus kódex Corvin János, illuminated manuscript

Philostratus kódex Corvin János, illuminated manuscript

Magyar: Mátyás bevonulása Bécsbe, Philostratus kódex, Bibliotheca Corviniana. Feltételezés szerint a diadalmenetet tartó személy Corvin János

Philostratus, Latin translation, illuminated manuscript

Philostratus, Latin translation, illuminated manuscript

Works of Philostratus in the Latin translation by Antonio Bonfini. The manuscript was written and illuminated at Florence between 1487 and 1490 for king Matthias Corvinus. Script: Humanist Rotunda. Budapest, Sz... More

Synesius, De insomniis (Latin Translation)

Synesius, De insomniis (Latin Translation)

Latin Translation of Synesius, „De insomniis“ (“On Dreams”), translated by Marsilio Ficino. Manuscript belonged to king Matthias Corvinus. Manuscript Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Cod. 2 Aug. 4°, fol.... More

Portrait de Janus Pannonius, illuminated manuscript

Portrait de Janus Pannonius, illuminated manuscript

Français : Portrait de Matthias Corvinus. Frontispice d'un manuscrit (Plaute, Comédies) Magyar: Egy ifjú miniatúrája. Feltételezések szerint Matthias Corvinus ábrázolja. Vitéz László: Plautus-kódex, Ferrara, c.... More

Bartolomeo Di Fruosino - Inferno, from the Divine Comedy by Dante (Folio 1v) - WGA01339

Bartolomeo Di Fruosino - Inferno, from the Divine Comedy by Dante (Fol...

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Bartolomeo Di Fruosino - Inferno, from the Divine Comedy by Dante (Folio 3v) - WGA01340

Bartolomeo Di Fruosino - Inferno, from the Divine Comedy by Dante (Fol...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Giuniano Maio De Majestate - BNF It1711 f1r (frontispice)

Giuniano Maio De Majestate - BNF It1711 f1r (frontispice)

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Agathias (Latin) - Public domain medieval manuscript

Agathias (Latin) - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of Agathias’ “Histories”, Latin translation by Cristoforo Persona, in the dedication copy for Pope Sixtus IV, the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2004, fol. 2r.... More

Appian (Latin), Paris, BN, Lat. 5786

Appian (Latin), Paris, BN, Lat. 5786

A page of the Latin translation of Appian’s „Roman History“ by Pier Candido Decembrio in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5786, fol. 128r. Deutsch: Eine Seite von Pier Candido Dece... More

Appian (Latin), Florence, BML, Plut. 68.19

Appian (Latin), Florence, BML, Plut. 68.19

A page of the Latin translation of Appian’s „Roman History“ by Pier Candido Decembrio in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 68.19. Deutsch: Eine Seite von Pier Candido Decembrios l... More

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6

The beginning of the sixth book of the Nicomachean Ethics in a manuscript written in Southern Italy for Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, duke of Atri.. Manuscript: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. phil... More

Aristotle, Metaphysics, Incunabulum

Aristotle, Metaphysics, Incunabulum

The beginning of the „Metaphysics“ in an incunabulum decorated with hand-painted miniatures. The picture shows philosophers in conversation on a balcony and, as a counterpole, an ape (right). New York, Pierpon... More

Asclepius 1469 - Public domain medieval manuscript

Asclepius 1469 - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the Hermetic dialogue Asclepius in the incunabulum printed at Rome (editio princeps). Deutsch: Der Anfang des hermetischen Dialogs Asclepius in der römischen Inkunabel (Erstausgabe).

Asclepius, BNM Lat. Z. 467 - Public domain medieval manuscript

Asclepius, BNM Lat. Z. 467 - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the Hermetic dialogue Asclepius in the manuscript Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. Z. 467 (= 1557), fol. 91v. The manuscript was owned by Cardinal Bessarion. Deutsch: Der Anfang de... More

Bessarion’s dedication letter to Cesarini

Bessarion’s dedication letter to Cesarini

Cardinal Bessarion’s dedication letter to Cardinal Julian Cesarini the Elder in the presentation copy of his Latin translation of Xenophon’s Memorabilia. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 1806, f... More

Cicero, De natura deorum, BAV, Urb. lat. 319

Cicero, De natura deorum, BAV, Urb. lat. 319

The beginning of the dialogue „De natura deorum“ in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 319, fol. 2r. Deutsch: Der Anfang des Dialogs „De natura deorum“ in der Handschrift C... More

Cicero, Divinatio in Caecilium - Public domain medieval manuscript

Cicero, Divinatio in Caecilium - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the „Divinatio in Caecilium” in the manuscript Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár, Cod. Lat. 2. Deutsch: Der Anfang der “Divinatio in Caecilium” in der Handschrift Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár, Cod. Lat. 2.

Cornelius Nepos, Modena - Public domain medieval manuscript

Cornelius Nepos, Modena - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of Cornelius Nepos’ „De excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium“ in the manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Q.4.15 (= Cod. Lat. 437), fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfang der Schrift „D... More

Curtius Rufus, BAV, Urb. lat. 427

Curtius Rufus, BAV, Urb. lat. 427

The beginning of the third book of the „Histories of Alexander the Great“ in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 427, fol. 2r. Deutsch: Der Anfang des dritten Buches der Ale... More

De bello Hispaniensi, Biblioteca Casanatense, 453

De bello Hispaniensi, Biblioteca Casanatense, 453

A manuscript of De bello Hispaniensi: Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 453, fol. 199r. Deutsch: Eine Handschrift von „De bello Hispaniensi“: Rom, Biblioteca Casanatense, 453, fol. 199r.

Dionysius Areopagita, De coelesti hierarchia (Latin)

Dionysius Areopagita, De coelesti hierarchia (Latin)

The beginning of Ambrose Traversari’s Latin translation of the Pseudo-Dionysian “Celestial Hierarchy” in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 171, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfan... More

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae (Latin)

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae (Latin)

The beginning of Lampugnino Birago’s Latin translation of the „Roman Antiquities“ in the dedication copy for Pope Paul II, the manuscript Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1819, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der ... More

Diodorus, Latin translation - Public domain medieval manuscript

Diodorus, Latin translation - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the eleventh book of the Bibliotheca historica in the Latin translation by Iacopo da San Cassiano dedicated to Pope Pius II. Manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. ... More

Dionysius Areopagita, De ecclesiastica hierarchia (Latin)

Dionysius Areopagita, De ecclesiastica hierarchia (Latin)

The beginning of Ambrose Traversari’s Latin translation of the Pseudo-Dionysian “Ecclesiastical Hierarchy” in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 169, fol. 31r. In the miniat... More

Ficino, Hipparchus - Public domain medieval manuscript

Ficino, Hipparchus - Public domain medieval manuscript

Ficino’s introduction („argumentum“) to his Latin translation of the dialogue Hipparchus in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 185, fol. 7r. Deutsch: Ficinos Einleitung („a... More

Ficino, Pimander - Public domain medieval manuscript

Ficino, Pimander - Public domain medieval manuscript

Marsilio Ficino’s introduction (argumentum) to his Latin translation of the Corpus Hermeticum in a manuscript dedicated to Lorenzo il Magnifico. Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21.8,... More

Ficino, preface to the Latin Enneads

Ficino, preface to the Latin Enneads

The beginning of Ficino’s preface to his Latin translation of Plotinus’ Enneads in the dedication copy for Lorenzo il Magnifico. Book illumination by Attavante degli Attavanti. Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca ... More

Ficino, Enneadenübersetzung, Vorrede

Ficino, Enneadenübersetzung, Vorrede

The beginning of Ficino’s preface to his Latin translation of Plotinus’ „Enneads“, dedicated to Lorenzo il Magnifico, in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 82.10, fol. 3r. Deutsch: ... More

Ficino, De mysteriis Aegyptiorum

Ficino, De mysteriis Aegyptiorum

Marsilio Ficino’s introduction to his Latin translation of Iamblichus’ De mysteriis Aegyptiorum in a manuscript dedicated to Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, who became Pope Leo X. Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca... More

Francesco della Rovere, preface

Francesco della Rovere, preface

The preface of Cardinal Francesco della Rovere, who later became Pope Sixtus IV, to a manuscript of his works dedicated to Pope Paul II. Manuscript: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1051... More

Francesco della Rovere, De futuris contingentibus

Francesco della Rovere, De futuris contingentibus

The beginning of the treatise De futuris contingentibus by Cardinal Francesco della Rovere, who later became Pope Sixtus IV, in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1050, fol.... More

Francesco Sforza, Trivulziana 786

Francesco Sforza, Trivulziana 786

A portrait of Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan. Miniature in the manuscript Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, 786, fol. 1 (inserted folio). Deutsch: Ein Porträt von Francesco Sforza, Herzog von Mailand, als Buchm... More

Gellius, Valencia - Public domain medieval manuscript

Gellius, Valencia - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the “Noctes Atticae” in the manuscript Valencia, Biblioteca historica de la universidad, Ms. 389, fol 19r. Book illumination by Nardo Rapicano. Deutsch: Der Anfang der Noctes Atticae in der H... More

Juvenal, Satiren, BL, Add. 17413

Juvenal, Satiren, BL, Add. 17413

A page of a manuscript of Juvenal’s „Satires“. London, British Library, Additional MS 17413, fol. 20v. Deutsch: Eine Seite einer Handschrift von Juvenals „Satiren“. London, British Library, Additional MS 1741... More

Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria

Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria

The preface of the treatise „De re aedificatoria“ in the manuscript Olomouc, Státní Archiv, Domské i Kapitolní Knihovna, Cod. Lat. C. O. 330. Deutsch: Der Prolog der Abhandlung „De re aedificatoria“ in der Ha... More

Lorenzo Valla, preface - Public domain medieval manuscript

Lorenzo Valla, preface - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of Lorenzo Valla’s preface to his Latin translation of Thucydides’ „History of the Peloponnesian War” in the dedication copy for Pope Nicholas V. Manuscript: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica V... More

Lucretius, Vat. lat. 1569 - Public domain medieval manuscript

Lucretius, Vat. lat. 1569 - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the poem „De rerum natura“ in a manuscript written for Pope Sixtus IV: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1569, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfang des Gedichts „De rerum natura... More

Macrobius, Saturnalia, Florence, BML, Plut. 65.36

Macrobius, Saturnalia, Florence, BML, Plut. 65.36

The beginning of the „Saturnalia“ in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 65.36. Deutsch: Der Anfang der „Saturnalien“ in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 65.36.

Pontano, De oboedientia - Public domain medieval manuscript

Pontano, De oboedientia - Public domain medieval manuscript

The beginning of the treatise “De oboedientia” in the manuscript Valencia, Biblioteca historica de la universidad, Ms. 52, fol. 26r. Illumination by Cristoforo Majorana. Deutsch: Der Anfang der Abhandlung “De... More

Girolamo da Cremona, Pentecost, about 1460–1470. 94.MS.13.recto The J. Paul Getty Museum

Girolamo da Cremona, Pentecost, about 1460–1470. 94.MS.13.recto The J....

Pentecost; Girolamo da Cremona (Italian, active about 1450 - 1485); Mantua (possibly), Italy; about 1460–1470; Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 20.1 × 12.9 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Ms. 55 (94... More

Art, Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonary, he Annunciation, cleveland museum of art (cropped)

Art, Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonary, he Annu...

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Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonary, he Annunciation, cleveland museum of art

Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonary, he Annunciat...

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Bottom detail, Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonary, he Annunciation, cleveland museum of art (cropped)

Bottom detail, Belbello da Pavia, Initial M Excised from an Antiphonar...

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Domenico Pagliarolo - Resurrection, in an initial A - Google Art Project

Domenico Pagliarolo - Resurrection, in an initial A - Google Art Proje...

The letter A (of Angelus) is appropriately illustrated with the Resurrection, for it begins an Easter antiphon that was sung at the hour of Lauds (daybreak), the time of Christ's Resurrection. The illustration ... More

Histoire des rois de France de Cattaneo- Bib Arsenal Ms1096 f1

Histoire des rois de France de Cattaneo- Bib Arsenal Ms1096 f1

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Houghton MS Richardson 23 - Opuscula, Pier Candido Decembrio - detail

Houghton MS Richardson 23 - Opuscula, Pier Candido Decembrio - detail

Detail from the first page of Opuscula (circa 1460-1465), manuscript, by Pier Candido Decembrio (1399-1477). MS Richardson 23, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Houghton MS Typ 155 - Gregorio Dati, La Sfera

Houghton MS Typ 155 - Gregorio Dati, La Sfera

Manuscript pages from La Sfera, circa 1450, by Gregorio Dati (1362-1436), including hand-colored map. The work is sometimes attributed to Gregorio's brother Leonardo Dati. MS Typ 155, Houghton Library, Harvard... More

Objurgatio in calumniatorem Platonis - BNF Lat12947 f3 (frontispice)

Objurgatio in calumniatorem Platonis - BNF Lat12947 f3 (frontispice)

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Thomas d'Aquin Commentaria in libros Aristotelis - BNF Lat6525 f1

Thomas d'Aquin Commentaria in libros Aristotelis - BNF Lat6525 f1

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Al-Razi book illumination, Torino D.I.14

Al-Razi book illumination, Torino D.I.14

Illumination in a manuscript from Naples containing a Latin translation of a medical treatise by al-Razi („Rasis“). A doctor with his patient; the doctor holds a vessel with the patient’s urine. Torino, Biblio... More

Antiphonary II, Two kneeling saints beaten to death in a landscape (ca. 1442) Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena

Antiphonary II, Two kneeling saints beaten to death in a landscape (ca...

Antiphonary II, Two kneeling saints beaten to death in a landscape (ca. 1442) Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena

Bartolomeo della Fonte, works, illuminated manuscript

Bartolomeo della Fonte, works, illuminated manuscript

Bartolomeo della Fonte (Bartholomaeus Fontius), dedication copy (autograph) of his works for king Matthias Corvinus, written in 1488. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Lat. 43, Aug. 2°, fol. 1r. Deu... More

Cicero - Tusculanae Disputationes illuminated manuscript

Cicero - Tusculanae Disputationes illuminated manuscript

Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes. Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum. Naples, late 1450s or early 1460s.

Cicero, De officiis, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1534

Cicero, De officiis, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1534

Cicero, De officiis, in ms. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1534, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Cicero, De officiis, in der Handschrift Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 15... More

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, Florence, Plut. 66.7

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, Florence, Plut. 66.7

Josephus, The Jewish War in Latin translation in ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 66.7, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Flavius Josephus, Jüdischer Krieg in lateinischer Übersetzung in der Handschrift Fl... More

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, (1444-1473), e la sua corte 1464

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, (1444-1473), e la sua corte 1464

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Francesco Rosselli - Homer, Iliad, Florence, Plut. 32.4

Francesco Rosselli - Homer, Iliad, Florence, Plut. 32.4

Homer’s Iliad in a manuscript with miniatures by Francesco Rosselli: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 32.4, fol. 43r. Deutsch: Homer, Ilias, in einer Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts mit Miniat... More

Homer, Iliad, Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 246

Homer, Iliad, Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 246

The beginning of Homer’s Iliad in ms. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 246, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfang von Homers Ilias in der Handschrift Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanu... More

John Argyropoulos, Preface to Aristotle’s Physics

John Argyropoulos, Preface to Aristotle’s Physics

John Argyropoulos, Preface to his Latin translation of Aristotle’s Physics. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 84.1, fol. 2r. Deutsch: Johannes Argyropulos, Vorwort zu seiner lateinischen Überset... More

John Argyropoulos, Preface to Latin De Interpretatione

John Argyropoulos, Preface to Latin De Interpretatione

John Argyropoulos, Preface to his Latin translation of Aristotle’s De Interpretatione, in the dedication copy for Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici. Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts. Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laure... More

Landino, Comento sopra la Comedia, Banco Rari 341

Landino, Comento sopra la Comedia, Banco Rari 341

The first page of Cristoforo Landino’s interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy in the dedication copy of the first edition of his commentary on Dante’s poem, dedicted to the Signoria of Florence. Incunable: Fl... More

Landino, De vera nobilitate, Cors. 36 E 5

Landino, De vera nobilitate, Cors. 36 E 5

The first page of the dialogue De vera nobilitate in the manuscript Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Biblioteca Corsiniana, 36 E 5, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfang des Dialogs De vera nobilitate in der Hand... More

Landino, Plinius, El Escorial, h.I.2

Landino, Plinius, El Escorial, h.I.2

The first page of the 19th book of Pliny’s Natural History in the Italian translation by Cristoforo Landino. Dedication copy for king Ferdinand I of Naples. Manuscript: San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Bibliot... More

Liber de causis, Venice, Lat. 288, fol. 2r

Liber de causis, Venice, Lat. 288, fol. 2r

The beginning of the Liber de causis in a manuscript from the library of Cardinal Bessarion. Manuscript Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. 288, fol. 2r.Deutsch: Der Anfang des Liber de causis in eine... More

Livy, Vaticanus latinus 3331, illuminated manuscript

Livy, Vaticanus latinus 3331, illuminated manuscript

Livy, Ab urbe condita, end of Book 38 und beginning of Book 39 in a manuscript written by Poggio Bracciolini. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus latinus 3331, fol. 156v. Deutsch: Livius, Ab urbe condit... More

Livy, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 875

Livy, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 875

The beginning of Livy’s Ab urbe condita in ms. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 875, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Der Anfang von Livius’ Ab urbe condita in der Handschrift Biblioteca Apostolica V... More

Marsilio Ficino, De vita, preface

Marsilio Ficino, De vita, preface

Marsilio Ficino, De vita, preface, in ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 73.39, fol. 4r. Deutsch: Marsilio Ficino, De vita, Vorwort in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana,... More

Paulus Diaconus, History of the Lombards, Urbinas Lat. 984

Paulus Diaconus, History of the Lombards, Urbinas Lat. 984

Paulus Diaconus, History of the Lombards (beginning) in a humanist manuscript. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urbinas Lat. 984, fol. 2r. Deutsch: Paulus Diaconus, Historia gentis Langobardorum (Anfang) in ei... More

Pier Candido Decembrio, De omnium animalium natura

Pier Candido Decembrio, De omnium animalium natura

Pier Candido Decembrio, De omnium animalium natura. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Urbinas Lat. 276, fol. 41r. Deutsch: Pier Candido Decembrio, De omnium animalium natura. Biblioteca Apostolica Vatican... More

Pietro Balbi, Letter, Bergamo, Ms. MA 490

Pietro Balbi, Letter, Bergamo, Ms. MA 490

Pietro Balbi, Dedication letter to king Ferdinand I of Naples on Balbi’s Latin translation of Proclus, Theologia Platonica, in ms. Bergamo, Civica Biblioteca Angelo Mai, MA 490, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Pietro Balbi... More

Plautus, Amphitryon, Florence, Plut. 36.41

Plautus, Amphitryon, Florence, Plut. 36.41

Plautus, Amphitryon in ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 36.41, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Plautus, Komödie Amphitruo in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 36.41, fol. 1r.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Florence, Plut. 82.4

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Florence, Plut. 82.4

Pliny the Elder, Natural History in ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 82.4, fol. 3r. Deutsch: Plinius der Ältere, Historia naturalis in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenzian... More

Plutarch, De virtute et vitio, Venice, Gr. 248

Plutarch, De virtute et vitio, Venice, Gr. 248

manuscript written for Bessarion Deutsch: Plutarch, De virtute et vitio 100B-101B in einer für Kardinal Bessarion angefertigten Handschrift.

Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, Florence, Plut. 46.12

Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, Florence, Plut. 46.12

Quintilian, Institutio oratoria in ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 46.12, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Quintilian, Institutio oratoria in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut... More

Seneca the Younger, Letters, Florence, Plut. 45.33

Seneca the Younger, Letters, Florence, Plut. 45.33

Seneca the Younger, Letters (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium). Latin manuscript. In ms. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 45.33, fol. 1r. Deutsch: Seneca, Briefe in der Handschrift Florenz, Biblio... More

Statuta civitatis mutine reformata 1420 1485

Statuta civitatis mutine reformata 1420 1485

Italiano: Statuta Mutine Reformata, 1420-1485. Codice membranaceo rilegato in legno e cuoio con placche di ottone lavorato agli angoli e al centro, con fermagli.

Virgil, Eclogues, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1632

Virgil, Eclogues, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1632

The beginning of Virgil’s Eclogues in ms. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1632, fol. 3r. Deutsch: Der Anfang von Vergils Eclogae (Bucolica) in der Handschrift Biblioteca Apostolica Va... More

15th-century painters - Portrait of Dante Alighieri - WGA15992

15th-century painters - Portrait of Dante Alighieri - WGA15992

Public domain photo of an Italian art painting, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Angelico, gloria di san domenico, miniatura

Angelico, gloria di san domenico, miniatura

The Glorification of St Dominic Parchment, 47,5 x 33,7 cm Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dante Pd10 Kopenhagen MS Thott 411.2

Dante Pd10 Kopenhagen MS Thott 411.2

Illustration of Dante's Paradiso, canto X, first circle of the 12 teachers of wisdom led by Thomas Aquinas

Francesco di Giorgio, castità e unicorno

Francesco di Giorgio, castità e unicorno

Public domain photo of a medieval art painting, 15th-16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Psalterium romanum

Psalterium romanum

Italiano: Psalterium romanum. [Venezia]: sec. XV. Membr., cc. 331 n. n. con miniature; 12x17 cm.

Bodleian Holkham misc 49 f 5r detail

Bodleian Holkham misc 49 f 5r detail

The narrators of the Decameron, from Bodleian Library MS Holkham misc. 49 f 5r

Book of Hours illuminated by Attavante Degli Attavanti, c 1480-1485

Book of Hours illuminated by Attavante Degli Attavanti, c 1480-1485

Book of Hours illuminated by Vante di Gabriello di Vante Attavanti, c. 1480-1485, Florence, Fitzwilliam Museum

Fons memorabilium universi - folio 1r - Balliol College MS 238A

Fons memorabilium universi - folio 1r - Balliol College MS 238A

The early 15th century encyclopedia Fons memorabilium universi by Domenico Bandini of Arezzo. This is the first page (folio 1R) of the illuminated manuscript MS 238A held at Balliol College.

Illuminated Manuscripts (Middleton) figure49

Illuminated Manuscripts (Middleton) figure49

Figure from Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times, their Art and their Technique. Fig. 49. An illuminated border from a manuscript by Attavante of characteristic north Italian style.

Sallustio De Catilinae coniuratione miniatura

Sallustio De Catilinae coniuratione miniatura

Italiano: Frontespizio miniato di un manoscritto del De bello Catilinae di Sallustio, copiato da Bartolomeo San Vito per Bernardo Bembo nel 1471-84, custodito nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. English: Fi... More

Triumph-petrarch-apollonio-1-love

Triumph-petrarch-apollonio-1-love

Italian illustration of Petrarch's Triumph of Love. Public domain photograph of 15th-century art, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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