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Fascimiles of medieval manuscripts from the Vatican Library. De arte venandi cum avibus + Il Dante Urbinate. + 1 more. (3)

Frederick II: De arte venandi cum avibus. NMs. Pal. Lat. 1071, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1969. No. 31 of 1000. 2 vols, in slipcase. Suede with raised bands + volume of commentary with suede spine and slipcase with suede spine. 38×27 cm.

Il Dante Urbinate, della Biblioteca Vaticana (Codice Urbinate Latino 365). Riproduzione del Codice. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana/ Fratelli Fabbri, 1965. No. 528 of 750. 2 vols in slipcase. Vol I: Introduction and commentary with spine in imitation leather. Vol II: Reproduction of manuscript. Bound in red imitation leather with gilding and raised bands. Slipcase in cloth and imitation leather.

Also enclosed: Giocomo Grimaldi: Descrizione della Basilica Antica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Biblioteca Vaticana, 1972. Clothbound, in paper slipcase. 35×40cm. + 5 loose fascimile leaves (2 evangelist portraits from the Gospels of Federico da Montefeltro + 3 leaves of text).

A detailed colour fascimile of the most famous copy of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's (1194–1250) treatise on falconry. The illuminated manuscript (1258–1266) commissioned by his son Manfred, a two-column parchment codex of 111 folios, is now in the Vatican Library. + Facsimile of the splendidly decorated late 15th-century edition of Dante's Divine Comedy commissioned by Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.

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Descrizione della Basilica with sunbleached spine.

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8,000–10,000 DKK

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