{"id":5623,"date":"2025-11-18T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/senza-categoria\/lascito-bessarioneo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:49:17","slug":"bessarion-bequest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/en\/bequests-and-collections\/bessarion-bequest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessarion bequest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section preset--module--divi-section--default\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_16_24 et_flex_column_16_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Biographical overview<\/h3>\n<h4>1468: Bessarion (548 Greek manuscripts, 337 Latin manuscripts, and 27 incunabula)<\/h4>\n<p>Bessarion\u2014probably born Basilios (Trebizond, c. 1400 \u2013 Ravenna, 18 November 1472)\u2014was a gifted young Greek who, after beginning religious, literary, and philosophical studies, entered the Basilian Order in 1423, taking the name Bessarion.<br \/>\nHe combined his scholastic and ascetic training with studies in the natural sciences and Platonic philosophy, which he pursued at Mistra under the guidance of George Gemistus Plethon.<br \/>\nHaving advanced through the ecclesiastical hierarchy\u2014he was known as Cardinal Niceno because he had been Metropolitan of Nicaea from 1437\u2014and enjoying imperial favour, he was chosen to participate in the Council of Ferrara. In October 1438, he delivered the inaugural oration, calling for ecclesiastical unity.<br \/>\nHe was created Cardinal-Priest of the Basilica of the Santi Dodici Apostoli in Rome in December 1439 and was thus incorporated into the Roman Curia. His definitive transfer to his residence at the Lateran took place in the autumn of 1443.<br \/>\nThereafter, he remained at the papal court, leaving Rome only for diplomatic and legatine missions entrusted to him by the Pope.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_8_24 et_flex_column_8_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_gallery_0 et_pb_gallery et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_slider et_pb_gallery_fullwidth clearfix et_pb_module\" data-auto-rotate=\"off\" data-auto-rotate-speed=\"\"><div class=\"et_pb_gallery_items et_post_gallery clearfix\" data-per_page=\"4\"><div class=\"et_pb_gallery_item et_pb_gallery_item_0_0\"><div class=\"et_pb_gallery_image landscape\" data-per_page=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lascito-Bessarioneo.webp\" title=\"Lascito Bessarioneo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lascito-Bessarioneo.webp\" alt=\"Lascito Bessarioneo\" class=\"wp-image-3756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lascito-Bessarioneo.webp 673w, https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lascito-Bessarioneo-480x713.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 673px, 100vw\" \/><span class=\"et_overlay\" data-icon=\"\" data-icon-tablet=\"\" data-icon-phone=\"\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_gallery_item et_pb_gallery_item_0_1\"><div class=\"et_pb_gallery_image landscape\" data-per_page=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bessarioneo.webp\" title=\"Bessarioneo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bessarioneo.webp\" alt=\"Bessarioneo\" class=\"wp-image-3736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bessarioneo.webp 866w, https:\/\/bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bessarioneo-480x554.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 866px, 100vw\" \/><span class=\"et_overlay\" data-icon=\"\" data-icon-tablet=\"\" data-icon-phone=\"\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_0 et_pb_accordion et_pb_module et_flex_module\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_item_0 et_pb_accordion_item et_pb_toggle et_pb_module et_pb_toggle_open et_flex_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">The bequest<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content et_flex_module\"><p>In 1468, Bessarion chose to donate his books to St Mark\u2019s\u2014and therefore to the Venetian Republic. The collection was transferred partly during his lifetime (1468) and completed after his death (1472). In Bessarion\u2019s vision, Venice was to serve as a bulwark against the Turks and a secure refuge for the Byzantine intellectual world, of which he considered himself an heir. At the same time, he hoped it would become a place of encounter and dialogue between Greek and Latin cultures.<br \/>\nInitially, he had intended to donate the collection to the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, owing to the presence there of a library modelled on the Medici Library and to his good relations with the Benedictine monks.<br \/>\nIn formalising his bequest\u2014the original deed of which is preserved in codex Lat. XIV, 14 (= 4235)\u2014Bessarion stipulated conditions for the protection and custody of the books and requested that they be housed in a setting worthy of both the collection and its readers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_item_1 et_pb_accordion_item et_pb_toggle et_pb_module et_pb_toggle_close et_flex_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">Extent of the bequest<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content et_flex_module\"><p>The original deed of donation of the Bessarion Library is preserved in the Marciana as codex Lat. XIV, 14 (= 4235). Elegantly executed and enclosed in a contemporary casket, it bears the title: Acta ad munus literarium D. Bessarionis cardinalis Nicaeni, episcopi Tusculani et patriarchae Constantinopolitani, in Serenissimam rempublicam Venetam collatum spectantia.<br \/>The text opens with the letter in which Bessarion informs Doge Cristoforo Moro of his intention to donate his library to St Mark\u2019s, dated ex balneis Viterbiensibus, 31 May 1468.<br \/>This is followed by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bull by which Pope Pietro Barbo (Paul II) ratifies the revocation of Bessarion\u2019s earlier intention to donate the library to the Venetian monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore and approves its new destination. The document is dated datum Romae, apud Sanctum Marcum, anno Incarnationis Dominicae millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo septimo, sexto decimo Kal. Octobris, with notarial authentications dated 14 June 1468.<br \/>The Instrumentum donationis librorum, drawn up in Viterbo on 14 May 1468 by the notary Rosato, son of Matteo of Viterbo.<\/li>\n<li>The Index librorum utriusque linguae quos Bessario cardinalis et patriarcha Constantinopolitanus basilicae Beati Marci Venetiis dicavit, divided into a catalogue of Greek books and a catalogue of Latin books, followed by the notarial attestation.<br \/>This is followed by the text relating to the formal transfer into Venetian hands, likewise accompanied by the act of ratification. Once the donation had been accepted by the Serenissima, the Venetian ambassador to the Holy See, Pietro Morosini, took possession of the library through a deed drawn up in Rome, at the cardinal\u2019s residence at Santi XII Apostoli, on 26 June 1468.<\/li>\n<li>The original deed of donation lists 482 Greek and 264 Latin manuscripts.<br \/>In the spring of 1469, the first thirty crates arrived in Venice, containing 466 of the manuscripts included in the catalogue.<br \/>All the remaining manuscripts, augmented by further acquisitions, arrived in a second shipment in February 1474, since the inter vivos donation stipulated that some of the codices required for the cardinal\u2019s own studies were to remain in his possession, and were therefore sent from Urbino, where he had placed them for safekeeping with Federico da Montefeltro.<br \/>Today, the collection comprise 548 Greek manuscripts, 337 Latin manuscripts, and 27 incunabula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_item_2 et_pb_accordion_item et_pb_toggle et_pb_module et_pb_toggle_close et_flex_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">Types of materials<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content et_flex_module\"><p>The Bessarion Library was initially assembled for purposes of study and later with the explicit aim of preserving the writings and wisdom of the ancients, regarded as the foundation of civilisation.<br \/>\nThe collection therefore includes ancient manuscripts sought out in their regions of origin, in territories of Greek tradition under Latin rule, and in centres of Latin culture.<br \/>\nAlongside these are newly produced volumes\u2014true \u201ceditions\u201d of texts\u2014specially commissioned, both in terms of copying and, in many cases, illumination.<br \/>\nMany of the manuscripts are described by Bessarion as pulcherrimi, that is, of exceptional quality and aesthetic refinement.<br \/>\nThe textual content ranges across literary, theological, philosophical, and scientific works.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_item_3 et_pb_accordion_item et_pb_toggle et_pb_module et_pb_toggle_close et_flex_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">Notable manuscripts<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content et_flex_module\"><p>Within this celebrated library are numerous manuscripts that constitute fundamental witnesses to the textual tradition, iconography, and intellectual history of Western civilisation.<br \/>\nAmong the ancient codices, we note the manuscripts of the Iliad, designated A and B in the stemma of the work (Gr. Z. 454 = 822; Gr. Z. 453 = 821) and available online on the website of Harvard\u2019s Center for Hellenic Studies, as well as Oppian\u2019s Cynegetica (Gr. Z. 479 = 881), recently reproduced in facsimile.<br \/>\nAlso noteworthy is the splendid fifteenth-century Ptolemy (Gr. Z. 388 = 333), for which a facsimile edition has been produced.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_accordion_item_4 et_pb_accordion_item et_pb_toggle et_pb_module et_pb_toggle_close et_flex_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">The inventories<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content et_flex_module\"><p>The inventories of the donation\u2014covering the volumes as originally stored in crates and subsequently housed in the Library of St Mark\u2014have been published by Lotte Labowsky in Bessarion\u2019s Library and the Biblioteca Marciana: Six Early Inventories (Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1979).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bessarione e l\u2019Umanesimo<\/em>, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, edited by Gianfranco Fiaccadori; Naples, Vivarium, 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1468: Bessarion (548 Greek manuscripts, 337 Latin manuscripts, and 27 incunabula)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bequests-and-collections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bessarion bequest | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Bessarion bequest |1468: Bessarion (548 Greek manuscripts, 337 Latin manuscripts, and 27 incunabula).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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