Le Decadi di Tito Livio nel Medioevo : alcune novità per i primi manoscritti miniati

Livyʼs Decades in the Middle Ages: News about the Earliest Illuminated ManuscriptsThis paper proposes important news regarding the illustration of Ab Urbe condita libri by Titus Livius in the Middle Ages. Livian manuscripts of Decades I, III and IV have made it possible to reconstruct the successful textual transmission of the work over the centuries in a philological way. On the other hand, it is more difficult to trace the development of the medieval illustration of Livian books, due to the few attested manuscripts, among which the famous and luxurious Livio Lat. 5690 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, commissioned by Landolfo Colonna at the beginning of the 14th century.

The discovery of an unpublished codex of Decades I and III - the ms. 173 of the Archive of the Cathedral of Valencia - illuminated in Rome in the last decades of the 13th century, will add a further piece to the research concerning the origin of the illustrative tradition of the Livian Decades in the Middle Ages. [Publisher's text]