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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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    (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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    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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