‘In bella grafia’. Six Centuries of Manuscripts from the Biblioteca Manfrediana

Abstract

After the emergency caused by the flood in Romagna in May 2023, the Manfrediana Library decided to dedicate an exhibition to the manuscript heritage, with an evocative journey through more than six centuries of history: from 12th-century fragments, recovered from the bindings of notarial registers, through famous medieval codices, such as Bonadies' collection of music and Felice Feliciano's epigraphic sylloge, to the testimonies of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the unpublished novel by the American journalist Edward Prime-Stevenson.