Download our coloring books with images from the Vatican Library and color them! Share your creations and don’t forget to tag Digita Vaticana and use the hashtag #ColorOurCollections 🎨🖌🖍🌈✍🏻 digitavaticana.org/color-our-coll…

From our 2018 Coloring Book, this is one of your colored pieces we prefer! #ColorOurCollections and treat yourself to a relaxing moment with De Arte Venandi cum Avibus by Frederick II. Download here: digitavaticana.org/wp-content/the…

"Aetna tremoribus, tonitruisque ingentibus editis horrendas eructavit flammas, fastigii pars corruit introrsum." Maurolico, maggio 1536. 'Ad Petrum Bembum de aethneo incendio'. Barb. Lat. 2158: Ad Bembum Epistolae #LatestDigitizedManuscripts - digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.…

Stunning and realistic pictures with notes in the Pope Alexander VII's 'Greek Latin Dioscurides ' among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts. Chig.F.VII.159 (15th cent.): Dictionary of #herbs, #Medicine book 🌱🌿🌷🍒🌳 digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/235… #botany #plants #minerals #animals

So many ways to color your weekend! Choose your meaningful colors and share with us the image! The more you color, the more you light your weekend up! Download our coloring books with images from the Vatican Library and #ColorOurCollections! ➡️ digitavaticana.org/color-our-coll…

Some other beautiful #drawings from the Ashby collection among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts such as this beautiful study for the ceiling fresco 'Aurora' (1621-1623) in the Casino Ludovisi (Rome) by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called il #Guercino✍🏻🎨 digi.vatlib.it

Urb. lat. 276: De Natura Avium et animalium / De Animantium Naturis (1460) by Petrus Candidus Decembrius (illustrations: 16th cent.) - digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l… #DarwinDay

Postilla super Biblia by Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270 -1349) with amazing #illuminations by Gioacchino di Giovanni (also known as Gigantibus or De Gigante, Rottenburg an der Laaber, 15th cent.) among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts - digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Vat… #miniatures #manuscripts

"There sat the cruel boy; a threatening yew His right hand bore, his quiver arrows held, Against whose force no helm or shield prevail’d. Two party-colour’d wings his shoulders ware; All naked else;" Petrarch, Triumph of Love, Barb. lat. 3943 #ValentineDay #HappyValentinesDay2019

#GalileoGalilei, Discorso sopra il flusso e riflusso del mare. Scritto in Roma in forma di lettera al Cardinale Orsino il dì 8 gennaio 1616. #Galileo #BornOnThisDay 1564 #15febbraio #NatiOggi Urb. lat. 860 (17th cent.), ff. 445r-464v 🔭 🌊 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l…

#ManiculHunt and #ManiculeMonday with Vat. lat. 3252: 9th century Codex Bembinus containing Virgil's Bucolics, part of the first book of the Georgics, and some of the opuscula (Appendix Virgiliana, including the Culex) ascribed to the Latin poet ☞ digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Vat…

Ross.180 (Missale Romanum, 14th cent.) among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts - digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.…

"VOGLIO PIÚ TOSTO UN ASINO, CHE MI PORTI, CHE UN CAVALLO, CHE MI GETTI IN TERRA." Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718), Proverbi Figurati. Bologna, 1678. #WednesdayWisdom #proverbs #proverbi #modididire italiani in Stampe.II.59 - digi.vatlib.it/view/GDS_Stamp…

Eighty-four folios with spectacular #drawings of #machines and #military devices by an Anonymous Sienese Artist among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts 🏰⛲🛠🔩⚙⛓🧱⚔🛡🔗 digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l…

Food, hygiene, activity and rest for the personal physical and mental well-being in the Tacuinum Sanitatis: medieval handbook on wellness, based on the 11th cent. Arab medical treatise by Elluchasem Elimithar🍉🧼☀🧘🏻‍♀️💕digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.l… (14th c.) #LatestDigitizedManuscripts

Simpering #manicule in Lectiones Super Librum Posteriorum Aristotelis. #ManiculHunt and #ManiculeMonday in Urb. lat. 1463. pt. A ☞ digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l…

Dai sedicenti medici ai falsi profeti, descrizione di circa 40 tipi di "cerretani" (ciarlatani, impostori) e delle loro frodi e inganni nel "De Ceretanorum Origine Eorumque Fallaciis” di Teseo Pini (c. 1484) #LatestDigitizedManuscripts🧙🏻‍♂️🧞‍♂️ digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l…

Urb. Lat. 1231, early 1600s: Discorso del gioco di spada dell'Orafo di Cremona. #Italian #manuscript on #fencing: teachings on rapier, rapier and dagger, rapier and cloak, rapier and shield, additional teachings ⚔🤺⚔ digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.l…

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble... Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718), Proverbi Figurati. Bologna, 1678. #TuesdayThoughts #proverbs #proverbi #modididire italiani in Stampe.II.59 - digi.vatlib.it/view/GDS_Stamp…

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