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    The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark (Italian: Biblioteca Marciana, but in historical documents commonly referred to as the Libreria pubblica...
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    Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 62 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 64 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 82 Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia...
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    Doge's Palace on the east and Jacopo Sansovino's Biblioteca (Library) which holds the Biblioteca Marciana on the west. At the corner near the campanile,...
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    name for the 10th century AD manuscript codex catalogued in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice as Codex Marcianus Graecus 454, now 822. Its name is Latin...
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    Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely...
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    leaf in a tenth-to-eleventh century manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, MS Marciana gr. Z. 299. The document features an ouroboros containing...
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    an 18th-century binding, but the current owner, Venetian library Biblioteca Marciana, separated the pages for individual exhibition. To confirm his authorship...
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    between the Doges' Palace at left and Biblioteca Marciana at right Sansovino's Zecca, with the Biblioteca Marciana and Doge's Palace beyond San Francesco...
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    some scholars it was between the sunsets of 8 and 9 January 1324. Biblioteca Marciana, which holds the original copy of his testament, dates the testament...
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    long-lost manuscript called the Marcianus, which was once in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice and described by Petrus Victorinus as liber antiquissimus...
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  • Pisa, Italy Marciana Marina, town in the province of Livorno, Italy Biblioteca Marciana, historic library and building in Venice Marciana (Lycia), a town...
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  • 10th-century manuscripts discovered by Villoison in 1781 in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice (see further Venetus A, Homeric scholarship), which are...
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    books (Venice: Pietro de' Piasi); only one copy exists, kept at the Biblioteca Marciana. There is also only one extant copy of the 1495 Venetian edition...
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    di Costantinopoli, 1453. The autograph copy is conserved in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Barbaro's diary has been translated into English by John...
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    Sansovino (assisting on the design of the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo. He was more...
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  • composed by an anonymous Venetian cartographer, and held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, Italy. The atlas was made by an anonymous Venetian...
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  • St Hubertus / St Eustace in a 13th-century English manuscript (Biblioteca Marciana)...
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    Marcianus Graecus 299 manuscript of the 6th or 7th centuries, now in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice. The manuscript includes a copy of a lost tract by Synesius...
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    leaf in a tenth-to-eleventh century manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, MS Marciana gr. Z. 299. A later copy can be found at Leiden University...
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    occupied by various administrative offices as well as housing the Biblioteca Marciana and other important cultural institutions within the city. By the...
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    Society A puer mingens depicted in the Grimani Breviary, c. 1510, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice Putti – Artistic depictions of naked boys Manneken Pis (1619)...
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    18th-century, and now the third largest library in the Veneto, after the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice and the University of Padua library. The main office is...
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    behind rather than beside the first. This was introduced in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice by Jacopo Sansovino (1537), and heavily adopted by Palladio...
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  • discovered it in the nineteenth century among the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice. "Owing to this drab but truthful chronicle," writes the...
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    inherited from his uncle. Long in the library of San Marco and the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, this breviary is a key work in the late history of Flemish...
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    used in the Veneto some years before by Jacopo Sansovino for his Biblioteca Marciana (1537), as well as in the reconstruction of the Polirone Abbey by...
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    Biblioteca Marciana, Venice Petrarch's library, Venice Biblioteca Iuav [it], Venice Biblioteca popolare circolante di Murano [it], Venice Biblioteca del...
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    Venice, and forms the nucleus of the famous library of St Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana. It comprised 482 Greek and 264 Latin manuscripts. Most of Bessarion's...
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    indicating its transmission to Europe. A manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, describes the use of lead oxide in enamels and includes...
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    libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The manuscript score is held at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, while a copy of the original libretto has been digitized...
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