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