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    The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose...
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    Codex Atlanticus (category Manuscripts of the Ambrosiana collections)
    some of Leonardo's notebooks in its formation. It is now in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The Codex Atlanticus is the largest single collection...
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  • Æneas. With the most eloquent index. Having earlier worked in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana where he began to collect details on historic manuscripts, Muratori...
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  • original manuscript, is the one found by Carlo Amoretti inside the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan and published in 1800 (Primo viaggio intorno al globo terraqueo...
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    The Ambrosian Iliad or Ilias Picta (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf.) is a 5th-century illuminated manuscript on vellum, which depicts the...
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    The Betrothed. He was a great patron of the arts and founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, one of the first free public libraries in Europe. In 1618 he added...
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    Two versions of the original manuscript are extant, one in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the other in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire...
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    (Vergilius Vaticanus) Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867 (Vergilius Romanus) Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf. (Ambrosian...
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    Paris Manuscript B [it; pl], part of the papers removed from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1795 by Napoleon and still held by the Institut de France in...
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    The Bobbio Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. Sup.) is an early 7th century Insular manuscript of the Chronicon of Paulus Orosius. The manuscript...
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    Guidonian hand, from 1274 Biblioteca Ambrosiana...
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    Giovanni Battista Ramusio, together with a Latin manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Other early important sources are R (Ramusio's Italian translation...
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    Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, which holds the 12-volume...
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    nouv. acq. lat. 1587) Ambrosiana Jerome (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.) Ambrosiana Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. sup.) Bodleian...
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    April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021. "Head of Christ the Redeemer". Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April...
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    The Bobbio Jerome (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.) is an early seventh-century manuscript copy of the Commentary on Isaiah attributed to...
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    Codex Ambrosiano A 147 5th century Genesis 31:15 - Joshua 12:12 Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A. 147 inf. Milan Italy G Codex Colberto-Sarravianus 4th/5th century...
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  • loan) 100 × 126,5 cm Oil on canvas c. 1596: Basket of Fruit Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana 46 × 64 cm Oil on canvas c. 1596: Bacchus Florence, Uffizi 95 ×...
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    was still fighting at Castello Sforzesco, Tinet traveled to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana as a member of the French commission. There, Tinet took Raphael's...
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    "Lavoradore" (Labrador) at bottom left. The information supposedly came from Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage in 1524. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana Milan.)...
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    Quoted in Freedberg, p. 387 Biblioteca Ambrosiana Archived May 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Biblioteca Ambrosiana Archived May 14, 2006, at the...
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    is considered the oldest public library in Europe along with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. Since 1940, the library has housed the archives of the...
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    (in 1436), in the Biblioteca Marciana, and another Portolan map in 1448, consisting of two parts, kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The indication of...
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    editions of the treatise On the Soul. Currently it is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (435 (H. 50)) in Milan. Codex Ambrosianus 837 is a manuscript of...
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    storico civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana A 5 inf., 1401-1500, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana H 166 inf, 1401-1450, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana AE._XII.52, 1413...
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    ora publicato per la prima volta, tratto da un codice MS. Della biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano e corredato di note da Carlo Amoretti. Milan 1800. 1524c...
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    interpolation). Only one copy is known, discovered in 1856 at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The Ambrosian letter was originally in the possession...
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    Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) (category Paintings in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana)
    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on...
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    existed, the collection Epistulae ad Atticum, in the Chapter Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) of Verona Cathedral. Disdaining what he believed to be the...
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    Academies of Genoa, Turin, Naples, and Perugia, curator of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, chair (September 1859 to June 1860) and then, until his death,...
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