CHAPTER IV.

LIBRARIES AND THE BOOK TRADE. VESPASIANO DA BISTICCI.

Cosimo de’ Medici’s Library Establishments—San Giorgio Maggiore

in Venice—Library of the San Marco Convent—The Niccolo

Manuscripts—Library of the Abbey of Fiesole—Inscriptions of

the Codices—The Duke of Urbino and Vespasiano da Bisticci—The

Copyists of the Fifteenth Century—The Material Perfection of

the Copies—Prices—Manuscripts and Printed Matter 472