Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 89 sup.117

Treatise on the Art of Silk Facsimile Edition

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The Treatise on the Art of Silk describes the processes of preparing and weaving silk. The manuscript, dated 1487 and 1488, was probably made in Florence, a textile production center. Nearly fifty miniatures, most with lively figures in brightly colored tunics, vividly depict many stages of preparation described in the treatise. Integrating what was still a relatively new technology into more traditional methods of textile manufacture, the treatise sheds light on local commercial enterprises and the city's connections to Asia.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Treatise on the Art of Silk": Trattato dell'arte della seta e L'arte della seta in Firenze facsimile edition, published by Giunti Editore, 1995

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Manuscript book description compiled by Nikolas Churik.
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Trattato dell'arte della seta e L'arte della seta in Firenze

Florence: Giunti Editore, 1995

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Treatise on the Art of Silk: 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.

The facsimile edition of the manuscript also includes a facsimile of L'Arte della Seta a Firenze: Trattato del Secolo XV, with commentary by Girolamo Gargiolli (Florence: G. Barbèra, 1868).

A box (32.5 x 23.5 cm, also available with silk binding) contains the two volumes.

Moreover, there seems to have also been a 1980 publication of the facsimile.

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