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Plate LXXII · Humanistic Script and Illumination

Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
Above left: INCIPIT of book III of Lucan's De bello civili. Autograph codex of Pomponio Leto - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. lat. 3285, f. 25° (1469-70). Above right: INCIPIT of book XXIII of Pliny's Naturalis historia. Manuscript in humanistic minuscule of the 15th cent. - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Ottob. lat. 1594, f. 104. Below left: PROLOGUE of the De aqueductibus Urbis Remæ, by G. Frontinus, with humanistic miniature of northern Italy - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Urb. lat. 1354, f. 1° (15th cent.). Below right: INCIPIT of book II of Paralipomenon, from the Bible of Duke Federico of Urbino, illuminated by Attavante Attavanti and his school, commissioned by Vespasiano da Bisticci for the Duke of Urbino - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Urb. lat. 1, f. 179° (1476).
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Above left: INCIPIT of book III of Lucan's De bello civili. Autograph codex of Pomponio Leto - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. lat. 3285, f. 25° (1469-70). Above right: INCIPIT of book XXIII of Pliny's Naturalis historia. Manuscript in humanistic minuscule of the 15th cent. - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Ottob. lat. 1594, f. 104. Below left: PROLOGUE of the De aqueductibus Urbis Remæ, by G. Frontinus, with humanistic miniature of northern Italy - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Urb. lat. 1354, f. 1° (15th cent.). Below right: INCIPIT of book II of Paralipomenon, from the Bible of Duke Federico of Urbino, illuminated by Attavante Attavanti and his school, commissioned by Vespasiano da Bisticci for the Duke of Urbino - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Urb. lat. 1, f. 179° (1476).

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