6/24/2023 0 Comments The silk road marco polo![]() ![]() ![]() On account of the thinness of the parchment (barely 80 μm thickness, the size of each foil being 16.5×11 cm) it was widely held that the pages were produced from foetal lambskins. After two years of restoration, the Bible will return to China in 2012 for a celebration of its >700 years of life and of its remarkable return trip on the Silk Road. This Bible was recently “unearthed” in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, wrapped up in a precious yellow silk cloth, in a rather ruined state. Four centuries later, in 1685, this Bible was rediscovered by the Jesuit Philippe Couplet in the house of a rich Chinese in Nanchin and donated to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. ![]() Around the end of XIII century (at the time of young Marco Polo's first trip to China at the court of Khubilai Khan in Khan Baliq) a pocket Bible was delivered by a Franciscan friar to the Mogul Emperor, in the framework of the evangelization program of the Far East. ![]()
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