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The
Laurentian Library (
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) in
Florence,
Italy is famous as a repository of more than 11,000
manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean
Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the
Medici pope,
Clement VII, the Library is renowned for the architecture planned and built by
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1525).
Beneath the current wooden floor of the library in the Reading Room is a series of 15 rectangular red and white
terra cotta floor panels. These panels, measuring 8 foot-6-inches (2.6 m) on a side, when viewed in sequence demonstrate basic principles of
geometry. The tiles are believed to have been arranged to have been exposed based on a furniture layout that was later changed to increase the number of reading desks in the room.
In 1571,
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, opened the still-incomplete Library to scholars.
[ Notable additions to the collection were made by its most famous librarian, Angelo Maria Bandini, who was appointed in 1757 and oversaw its printed catalogues. The Library conserves the Nahuatl Florentine Codex, the major source of pre-Conquest Aztec life. Among other well-known manuscripts in the Laurentian Library are the sixth-century Syriac Rabula Gospels; the Codex Amiatinus, which contains the earliest surviving manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible; the Squarcialupi Codex, an important early musical manuscript; and the fragmentary Erinna papyrus containing poems of the friend of Sappho.
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