Il Libro d'ore Visconti. Banco rari 397 e Landau Finaly 22 Firenze Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. 2 volumes facsimile and commentary. 25 x 17,5 cm. Red OSamt over wooden lids with 2 three-part cast, multiple-broken silver caps (2), combined with elaborate three-piece black-painted OPresentation cassette with 2 coloured metal crest plates on the two flaps and magnetic closure. ==References== One of 500 numbered copies. "Late in his life, the Duke of Milan Gian Galeazzo Visconti, commissioned a series of splendid illuminated volumes dedicated to the representation of the naturalistic world and medicine. Gian Galeazzo Visconti promoted the production of religious manuscripts as well. The Visconti Book of Hours preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence (Mss. BR 397 e LF 22) is one of the most lavish codes that the Duke of Milan commissioned. With the production of this Book of Hours, along with the manuscripts of secular content just mentioned, the cities of Pavia and Milan became major centers of illuminated manuscripts". – Obtain blameless.