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some loose but most of them in books Then most conspicuous part of his figurative collections coincided therefore with his admirable library, since certain items codices? were already illuminated while he had others illuminated in Bologna ? or Milano, without counting [taking into account] the care dedicated to the script which he wanted, and had, clear intelligible, elegant but functional, not usually? calligraphic (hence the praise of the rare scriptor as against the pictor? named here so-called unknown, what a sight it would be were it possible to assemble once in out life time, relics surviving the prompt dispersion of the corpus?, reconstituted by the great blocs? from Paris and from the Vatican, with the isolated great examples in Milano and Firenze. In addition, however, Petrarch owned a number of objects wrought in precious metals, mentioned in his testament as well are a fine collection of Roman coins from which he could