Valencia, Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu - Monasterio de San Miguel de los Reyes, MS 130

Spectacula Lucretiana Facsimile Edition

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Made in Italy around 1502, the Spectacula Lucretiana ("Lucretia's Spectacles") is a beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin poems by Giovanni Battista Cantalicio. Pope Alexander VI commissioned the manuscript to commemorate the betrothal of his daughter, Lucrezia Borgia, to Alfonso I d'Este, future Duke of Ferrara. The manuscript is decorated with twenty-three gold initials, most with red, blue, green, and gold foliage and flowers in the margins. The ornate first page of the manuscript includes a painted border with the Borgia family and papal crests and putti surrounded by foliage.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Spectacula Lucretiana": Spectacula Lucretiana facsimile edition, published by Scriptorium, 2010

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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Spectacula Lucretiana

Valencia: Scriptorium, 2010

  • Commentary (Catalan) by Grau Codina, Ferran; Estellés González, Joseph M.; Pérez Durà, Jordi; Alcina i Rovira, Joan F.; Gimeno Blay, Francesc
  • Limited Edition: 290 pp.
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Spectacula Lucretiana: 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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