The Basilica of St Bernardino all'Osservanza

Illuminated Manuscripts

  • Some illuminated choir books, used by the friars for communal singing, are on view in two cases placed at the centre of the room. It is a series of sixteen tomes, which were written to cover the entire liturgical year. The majority of the manuscripts was made between the 1470s and the 1480s in the actual friary where a scriptorium, strongly endorsed by Saint Bernardino, had been established in the . . .