Xylographies
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The xylography fund is an open collection that can be expanded through new acquisitions. It currently consists of 55 engravings and 1 watercolour, dating from the late 14th century to the 15th century. The most important and substantial part of the collection is made up of engravings taken from two Classense manuscripts, 374 and 485. These are legal texts that belonged to the notary Jacopo Rubieri (c. 1430-1500), an official of the Apostolic Tribunal.
In 1711, Rubieri’s codices were purchased in Pesaro by the Camaldolese abbot Pietro Canneti for the library of the Classense Abbey. During the 1938 restoration, the engravings were removed from the pages of the codices, where they were glued, and they were transported on individual sheets, as they appear today.
