[Illuminated manuscripts]. First edition ofImanuscripts Italiani della Regia Biblioteca Parigina descritti ed illustrati by Antonio Marsand dated 1835 with handwritten note indicating that the volume was a gift from the author within half-leather binding with gold title on spine and bearing ex libris by Renzo Rizzi. It contains the description of 703. Also in the lotInventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia by Olschki editore in 1933, La Canzone delle virtù e delle scienze by Bartolomeo di Bartoli by Leone Dorez in the 1904 Bergamo edition, and Monumenti e studi per la storia della miniatura italiana - La collezione di Ulrico Hoepli by Pietro Toesca in the1930 Milan edition. (4)

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