Dated and datable codices from the 15th-16th centuries in two “minor” Milanese collections: heterogeneous materials preserved at the Fondazione Trivulzio and the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano

Abstract

The article shows an overall overview and relative cataloguing records of the 16 codices dated and datable to the 15th-16th centuries mainly kept in the Archivio della Fondazione Trivulzio (serie Codici Sciolti) of the private library of the Trivulzio family, and in the Biblioteca e Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano (Fondo Manoscritti). Paragraphs 2-4 present a summary of the codicological and cultural-historical data obtained from the analysis of the catalogued manuscripts, also clarifying the criteria for selecting the manuscript material. After a brief historical contextualisation of both library collections, catalogue records of the 16 selected manuscripts are finally presented.

Keywords

• dated and datable manuscripts
• milan
• trivulzio
• history of libraries