Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Librarian Anna Welch gives us an intimate look at one of State Library Victoria's most precious medieval manuscripts originating from the famed Medici Library in Florence. The ornate volume is thought to have been created as a gift for the original renaissance man himself Lorenzo De Medici.

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