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L’arte del navegare (The Art of Seafaring) Venice (?), 1464–65 University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 473 This appears to be the sole surviving copy of the anonymous L’arte del navegare, a highly original treatise in four parts on navigation and the operation of seagoing vessels. The author dedicates the work to the Doge of Venice and the Republic’s senate.

Book of Hours, Use of Rome Siena, ca. 1475; illuminators: Liberale da Verona (miniatures) and Gioacchino de Gigantibus (borders and illuminated initials) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 118

Leaf from Petrarch, Africa, Book IX Lombardy, ca. 1400 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 48:4

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Cicero Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to Friends) Ferrara, 1468; scribe: Gregorio Martinello (colophon on fol. 174v) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 66 Petrarch had uncovered Cicero’s Epistolae ad Atticum in 1345 in Verona, but it was only in 1392 that Coluccio Salutati brought to light the entire sixteen books that make up the Epistolae ad familiares. Beyond its exemplary style of Latin prose, this collection of letters provided invaluable historical information concerning the final years of the Roman Republic. The present manuscript contains a complete copy of the Epistolae ad familiares, save for the first four letters of book 16, which appear to have been omitted purposefully.

Illuminated initial showing a Priest Celebrating Mass; border cartouche with deer; border roundel with deer, possibly from the Missal of Lucrezia de’ Medici Possibly Venice, 1475–76 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 27:27–29

Historical Miscellany including Paul the Deacon, Historia romana (Roman History) Italy (Lombardy or Piedmont?), ca. 1450 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 71

Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Susanna Hours) Paris, ca. 1505–20; illuminator: workshop of the Master of Petrarch’s Triumphs Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945-65-9 The iconographic cycle in this unique French Book of Hours features the story of Susanna and the Elders, adapted from chapter 13 of the apocryphal Book of Daniel. Each of the miniatures is accompanied by a set of five rhyming AABBA verses in French, consisting of unique paraphrased translations of the biblical text. The style of the illuminations is close to that of the so-called Master of Petrarch’s Triumphs (act. ca. 1499–ca. 1514)