Current owner:
© Biblioteca Riccardiana. Florencia. 15th century.
Extent:
240 parchment pages.
Language:
Italian.
Format:
17 x 12 cm.
Illustrations:
230 miniatures illuminated in gold and silver.
• Conserved in the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence. Ms. Ricc. 2669.
• The codex consists of 230 miniatures illuminated in gold and silver by the great Pedro Berruguete -painter to the Castile court of Joan the Mad and Philip the Handsome- and by the workshop of Botticelli.
• Codex commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici to educate his brother Giuliano in the arts of Banking and Commerce.
• The text of the manuscript has been attributed to Filippo Calandri on the basis of an incunabula published in Florence in 1491.
• Codex bound in blue velvet with bronze hinges and clasps.
• Unique edition of 999 numbered copies with notarized certificate of authenticity.