RABANO, Mauro - De Universo - De Rerum Naturis.... Lot 1003

RABANO, Mauro - De Universo - De Rerum Naturis. Ms. Cod. Casin. 132. Scarm: Priuli & Verlucca, 1994. A reproduction of the codex of the Encyclopedia of Hrabanaus Maurus preserved in the Abbey of Montecassino. The 530-page and richly illustrated codex was created at the beginning of the 11th-century in the Benedictine scriptorium and is a summary of the 22-volume Encyclopedia completed in 847 by the monk Hrabanus with the aim of "depicting the whole reality of the visible and invisible world. ". (490 x 350mm). Copy no. 186 of 500. Detailed color reproduction of the original codex. Binding with leather spine and wooden plates. With a volume of commentary. EN RABANO, Mauro - De Universo - De Rerum Naturis. Ms. Cod. Casin. 132. Scarmagno: Priuli & Verlucca, 1994. Reproduction of the codex of the encyclopedia of Hrabanaus Maurus preserved in the Abbey of Montecassino. The 530-page, richly illustrated codex was made in the early 11th century in the Benedictine scriptorium and is a summary of the 22-volume encyclopedia completed in 847 by the monk Hrabanus with the aim of "depicting the entire reality of the visible and invisible world." (490 x 350mm). Copy no. 186 of 500. Detailed colouri reproduction of the original codex. Binding with leather spine and wooden plates. With one volume of commentary.