Turin museum

Manuscripts you don't normally appreciate these days. There may be some mediaeval book exhibited in a museum, but even if so, it is often open on one page in a glass case. This is the case in Turin Museum, where one can see an exquisite copy of a missal finished (so a comment next to it says) the very year Columbus returned from America. It is a perfect example of the Italian rotunda hand.

In the same museum I found an interesting reliquary with some calligraphy on it, I present it here, too.

There is a book available, based on this blog.  

On the blog there is, so to speak, more room, one can show more illustrations there. Blogs, however, come and go, there is no certainty that it will be there ten years from now. The book, on the other hand, once you acquire it, will last, one can be sure of that.