Borso d'Este Bible

It was executed over a six-year period by a team of artists directed by Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi.

Then it was taken together with the most precious treasures of the royal house by Francesco V. Carried out of Italy, it was recovered during the First World War when it was acquired by a senator, Giovanni Treccani.

Every page of this bible is decorated with an elegant frame of scrolls and other ornaments, surrounding two columns of texts.

In the volutes in the corners, there are often animals, depicted with lively imagination that is part of the courtly style of the time, and often tied to heraldic symbols of Borso and his family.

In 1923, the businessman Giovanni Treccani acquired in Paris, for the enormous sum of 5 million lire, the Borso d'Este Bible, that was due to be sold in America, and donated it to the Kingdom of Italy.