29 La Biblioteca pubblica veneziana e gli incunaboli miniati

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dc.contributor.author	Marcon Susy
dc.title	29 La Biblioteca pubblica veneziana e gli incunaboli miniati
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dc.description.abstract	Venice was central to the production of printed books in the 15th-century and illumination continued to be applied to this new type of books, beyond the age of the manuscript. However, the illuminated incunabula preserved today in the Library of the Serenissima do not represent a noticeable percentage of the production of value. As is known, very few specimens printed on parchment or with miniatures entered the Marciana collections. Yet, the activity of the press was favoured by Bessarion, who included his remarkable Roman incunabula among his legacy to San Marco. The Roman incunabula of the Bessarion collection, published between 1468 and 1472, have characteristics that are entirely similar to the manuscripts he had commissioned in the last years of his life. The incunabula that entered the library in the later centuries, chiefly following the suppressions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are the result of different priorities.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-10-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-05-06
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-333-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-332-8
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dc.subject	Bessarion
dc.subject	Bessarion
dc.subject	Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
dc.subject	Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
dc.subject	Historical Collections
dc.subject	Historical Collections
dc.subject	Illumination
dc.subject	Illumination
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Incunabula
dc.subject	Venice
dc.subject	Venice

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29 La Biblioteca pubblica veneziana e gli incunaboli miniati

Susy Marcon Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, Italia

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Venice was central to the production of printed books in the 15th-century and illumination continued to be applied to this new type of books, beyond the age of the manuscript. However, the illuminated incunabula preserved today in the Library of the Serenissima do not represent a noticeable percentage of the production of value. As is known, very few specimens printed on parchment or with miniatures entered the Marciana collections. Yet, the activity of the press was favoured by Bessarion, who included his remarkable Roman incunabula among his legacy to San Marco. The Roman incunabula of the Bessarion collection, published between 1468 and 1472, have characteristics that are entirely similar to the manuscripts he had commissioned in the last years of his life. The incunabula that entered the library in the later centuries, chiefly following the suppressions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are the result of different priorities.

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Feb. 24, 2020

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Oct. 31, 2019

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May 6, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana • Historical Collections • Incunabula • Bessarion • Illumination • Venice

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