The Valencia Virgil was copied either in Rome around 1460-1470 or in Naples around 1470-1500, when it was illuminated. Three artists, working with up to four assistants, are responsible for the forty miniatures, illustrating the manuscript's three Latin poems—Eclogues, Georgics, and the epic Aeneid by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. They worked in an Italo-Flemish style popular in Naples and a style influenced by contemporary Milanese art. The description of Aeneas's descent into the underworld in Book 6 of the Aeneid is especially richly illuminated.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Valencia Virgil": Bucólicas, Geórgicas y Eneida (Opera de Virgilio) facsimile edition, published by Vicent Garcia Editores, 2001
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