Recent News The setting of the famous novel The name of the rose by Umberto Eco, Bobbio Abbeylocated in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna and in a monastery founded by the Irish saint Colmán in 614, has one of the most important collections of manuscripts from the High Middle Ages in all of Italy. In …
They find the oldest description of the meteoroscope in a lost treatise by Ptolemy Read More »
Recent News The setting of the famous novel The name of the rose by Umberto Eco, Bobbio Abbeylocated in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna and in a monastery founded by the Irish saint Colmán in 614, has one of the most important collections of manuscripts from the Early Middle Ages in all of Italy. In …
They find the oldest description of the meteoroscope in a lost treatise by Ptolemy Read More »
Recent News An essay on an astronomer Claudius Ptolemy believed to be lost was found under Isidore of Seville’s ‘Etymologies’ copied in the 8th century in a palimpsest preserved in Veneranda Ambrosiana Library in Milan (Italy). It is a manuscript made from parchment that was previously used a comes from the collection of the Abbey …