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Urb2

Library: Vatican City - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Shelfmark: Urb. lat. 1754

Provenance:

Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino. Probably copies (or at least illustrated) at Urbino.

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IIIF Manifest

Digital Facsimile: View

Physical Description

Support: parchment

Height: 29 cm

Date: 1481 (prev. text dated 5 Sept)

Folia: 99r-122v

Lines per page: 24

Decoration

Text Script: humanistic cursive

Diagrams: yes

Maps: yes

Illumination: yes

White Vine Work: yes

Relative Quality: super-deluxe but unfinished

Other Decoration: extended whitevine border f1, unfinished diagrams, incredible perspective "maps" (really vedute) showing possible Botticelli influence—but only for the first 4 openings of book IV

Editorial Status

Manuscript Status

This manuscript is not missing

This manuscript is not destroyed

Toponyms in this Manuscript

Folio Toponyms
113v Armenian Mountains Mount Ararat Persia
114r Bacu
115v Egypt Mecca Red Sea
116r Cairo (in Babylonia) Foa
116v Atlas Mountains
117r Arzilla Ceuta Laraccia
118v Calvary Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem Galilee Jerusalem Mount Sinai St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
119r Damascus Tortosa Tripoli (Syria)