Incunabula

The Library has more than 1100 incunabula. The collection was formed over the years following the layering of the other Angelic funds.

Among the illuminated incunabula, a specimen of the first Italian edition of the Historia naturalis by Pliny (Venice,1476) with the c./6/r entirely illuminated by an artist of the Ferrarese school.

Of particular note is the presence of the first movable type book printed in Italy, the
De Oratore by Cicero, Subiaco 1465. It is one of three specimens currently preserved in Italy.

Another Sublacensis edition owned is the De civitate Dei by St. Augustine from 1467.

Also noteworthy are theOpera omnia of Aristotle in the editio princeps by Aldo Manuzio, 1495-1498, given in 1605 to Angelo Rocca and the first edition of the Divine Comedy printed in Foligno in 1472.