Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Marciana

frontispiece and title page from eighteenth-century catalogue of Greek codices

frontispiece and title page from eighteenth-century catalogue of Latin codices
The catalogues of the library, compiled by Antonio Maria Zanetti and Antonio Bongiovanni and published in 1740 and 1741

The collection of the Marciana Library contains 4,639 manuscripts and 13,117 manuscript volumes.[1] Its historical nucleus is the private collection of Cardinal Bessarion, which was donated to the Republic of Venice in 1468.

  1. ^ Patrimonio librario. Biblioteca. Retrieved 21 September 2019.