Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Cod. Lat. II,60 (α 2075)

Sant'Agostino Estense Facsimile Edition

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Long before 1471, Ferrara was an established center for the production of manuscripts. Local workshops under Leonello had stressed the classics and humanistic subjects, and under Borso d’Este had shifted their focus to magnificent illuminated books, translations, and vernacular literature. Under Ercole, they broadened still further. Ercole ordered at least four splendidly illuminated Breviaries for his personal use, and among them is this wonderful “Orationes” by Saint Augustine.

A work of Andrea dalle Vieze (scribe) and Tommaso da Modena (artist), the Sant’Agostino Estense, with its sixty-eight miniatures embellished with gold and more than 130 gilded initials, was produced around 1482 for the Este court.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Sant'Agostino Estense": Sant'Agostino Estense facsimile edition, published by Graffiti, 2011

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Sant'Agostino Estense

Granarolo dell'Emilia: Graffiti, 2011

  • Commentary (Italian) by Milano, Ernesto
  • Limited Edition: 500 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Sant'Agostino Estense: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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