Online Resources
A section devoted to the Ambrosiana’s immense and varied collections: here you can search the Library’s catalogue, view the digital library, the new portal dedicated to Arabic manuscripts, the drawings catalogue, or Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.
Library Catalogue
Search the catalogue of the Ambrosiana Library’s manuscript and book collections.
(The online cataloguing of the Ambrosiana’s extensive library collection is still underway, and not all of the material has been entered into the database. This means that for a comprehensive search, it is still necessary to use the library’s paper catalogues.)
The Digital Library
The new Digital Library was created with the aim of enhancing the main funds (inf., Sup., S.P. and Trotti) through digitization and public and free dissemination via the Internet. In this way, the original manuscripts are preserved and their use is encouraged for the purpose of study and research.
The Digital Library
The new Digital Library was created with the aim of enhancing the main funds (inf., Sup., S.P. and Trotti) through digitization and public and free dissemination via the Internet. In this way, the original manuscripts are preserved and their use is encouraged for the purpose of study and research.
Arabic Manuscripts
The Ambrosiana Library is responsible for the conservation of an invaluable heritage made up of many thousands of precious manuscripts. Among the numerous and valuable specimens kept there, a collection that is certainly unique in its kind and in the international panorama of Western conservation libraries is that of Arabic manuscripts.
Codex atlanticus
The “Codex Atlanticus” project was born from the collaboration between the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana and the company “The Visual Agency”, with the aim of enhancing and making accessible to the public the images and contents of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.
The project offers the possibility of exploring the pages of the Codex according to various criteria: the thematic contents, the year of composition, but also the combination of these data.
Codex atlanticus
The “Codex Atlanticus” project was born from the collaboration between the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana and the company “The Visual Agency”, with the aim of enhancing and making accessible to the public the images and contents of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.
The project offers the possibility of exploring the pages of the Codex according to various criteria: the thematic contents, the year of composition, but also the combination of these data.
Catalogue of Drawings
Consult the inventory-catalogue of drawings in the Ambrosiana Library, currently being completed in cooperation with the University of Notre Dame, USA
Pinacoteca Collections
Admire the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana collections: more than 150 works online with exclusive images.
Pinacoteca Collections
Admire the Ambrosiana collections: more than 150 works online with exclusive images.