Ambrosian Iliad

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The Ambrosian Iliad (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf.) is a 5th century illuminated manuscript of the Iliad of Homer. It has been reduced to a series of miniatures cut out of the manuscript. It is one of the oldest surviving illustrated manuscripts. In addition, it is the only surviving portion of an illustrated copy of Homer from antiquity and, along with the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus, one of only three illustrated manuscripts of classical literature to survive from antiquity.

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