The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historical
library in
Milan, also housing the the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana art gallery. Named after
Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded by Cardinal
Federico Borromeo (1564-
1631), whose agents scoured Western Europe and even
Greece and
Syria for books and manuscripts. Some major acquisitions of complete libraries were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of
Bobbio (1606) and the library of the Paduan
Vincenzo Pinelli, whose more than 800 manuscripts filled 70 cases when they were sent to Milan and included the famous illuminated
Iliad, the Ilia Picta.
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